What makes your block into a neighborhood? For many residents of Englewood, it’s Honore Street Urban Farm. A part of Growing Home, Honore Street Urban Farm is a community-centered urban farm that will operate a year-round greenhouse, grow fresh healthy food for the area, and also provide workforce training in urban agriculture. As noted by Senator Dick Durbin… Read more NeighborSpace Year in Review: Honore Street Urban Farm
What makes your block into a neighborhood? For many residents of the Irving Park neighborhood, it’s Merchant Park Community Garden. Merchant Park is a model of community organization spirit. The gardeners strive to provide an opportunity for neighbors and their children to work, play, learn and grow together, and aims to benefit the community at… Read more NeighborSpace Year in Review: Merchant Park
What makes your block into a neighborhood? For many residents of the Austin neighborhood, it’s Paradise Garden. Paradise Garden wasn’t always a paradise. In fact, the property once housed an abandoned building that the neighborhood children had to pass on their way to school. After a 14-year old girl was raped at the site, Mary Peery… Read more NeighborSpace Year in review: Paradise Garden
What makes your block into a neighborhood? For some of the Chicagoans living in Little Village, the Chicago community with the least amount of green space, it’s 6062Trees: Sembrando Bajo el Sol, or “sowing in the sun.” Since 2008, under the leadership of Enlace, this space has been transformed from a concrete lot into a… Read more NeighborSpace Year in Review: 6062Trees
What makes your block into a neighborhood? For the Chicagoans living near the intersection of Grand and Pulaski, it’s Children’s Garden of Hope. This year, the ACE Design Build Workshop worked with a team of 15 CPS high school students to create an inverted trumpet flower structure that does duty as public artwork, rain catchment… Read more NeighborSpace Year in Review: Children’s Garden of Hope
Tru Blooms Chicago is “an exquisitely-designed, natural and locally grown women’s eau de parfum.” It uses essential oils from flowers such as roses, lavender, and violet grown in NeighborSpace gardens including Drake Garden, Bowmanville Community Garden, Howard Area Community Garden, Turtle Park, and Children’s Garden of Hope. Purchase this perfume using the password NEIGHBOR and Tru Blooms… Read more Smell Good, Save Money, and Help Community Gardens at the Same Time
With the season of giving right around the corner, why not consider donating your fresh locally grown produce? NeighborSpace has partnered with the Greater Chicago Food Depository to develop the Share the Harvest Initiative. Share the Harvest aims to partner community gardens with local emergency food assistance agencies. Gardens will have the opportunity to donate… Read more Share the Harvest
NeighborSpace’s Howard Area Community Garden was recently featured in Illinois Partners’ article about Chicago’s community gardening culture. Currently, NeighborSpace has 81 sites across the city and continues to grow. “We encourage people to keep an eye out in their neighborhood and to come and talk with us if they see unused, overgrown land and have a vision… Read more Howard Area Community Garden is Part of “a Growing Grassroots Movement”
GreenNet’s Annual Community Gardener Potluck, happening next Wednesday, November 16th, is a chance to meet gardeners from around the city, share expertise, and celebrate the past growing year. GreenNet also presents the Community Garden of the Year Award, and the event is open to all community gardeners, greeners and allies in Chicago. Please check it… Read more GreenNet’s Annual Community Gardener Potluck is coming!
8 gardens x 8 months in neighborhoods throughout Chicago Looking for a garden to dig into, but don’t know where to begin? The 8×8 community garden workday series is your chance to gain hands-on experience from community garden leaders and help you find a plot to call home. Join neighbors throughout Chicago on Saturday mornings (9:00-12:00) through November and… Read more The 8×8 Community Garden Workday Series: 2 Chances Left for 2012
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