Is your garden located near a food pantry or soup kitchen? If so, donating extra produce might be an option for you. Roots and Rays Garden, located in the Pilsen neighborhood, is right across the street from St. Pius V Parish, which has both a food pantry and soup kitchen. One of the gardeners is… Read more Share the Harvest: Roots and Rays
We’re thrilled to be partnering with Archeworks over the next year to create improved-accessibility designs for our gardens: PRESERVING URBAN GROWING SPACE: A COMMUNITY GARDEN DESIGN PROJECT 2013-2014 Archeworks inspires new visions for reclaiming, transforming, and sustaining natural environments and urban communities. In the 2013-14 academic year we are partnering with NeighborSpace, Chicago’s non-profit land… Read more NeighborSpace and Archeworks are looking for a few good designers
Despite the drizzle, the June 14th Community Canvassing Day for the Jardincito Play Garden at 23rd and Whipple was a success! Volunteers made face-to-face contacts with over 100 neighbors near the 23rd and Whipple site and distributed flyers announcing the concept of a Nature Play Garden. Neighbors looked through bilingual “flip books” (pictured, lower left)… Read more Jardincito: Sharing the Neighborhood’s Play Garden Dreams
If you need some extra hands to complete that workday project, One Good Deed Chicago can help you find volunteers. As a Cities of Service initiative, One Good Deed Chicago aims to amplify the impact of organizations by making opportunities to volunteer easily accessible to the general public. If you have a service opportunity within the… Read more Need workday help? Check out One Good Deed Chicago.
One of NeighborSpace’s oldest gardens, Frankie Machine, is sharing the harvest this season. Along the fence line, about 50 square feet of growing area is dedicated to donation. Garden leader Marjorie Isaacson has long wanted to make donations happen at the 30-year-old allotment garden and is excited to see that the idea is finally sprouting.… Read more Share the Harvest: Frankie Machine
JARDINCITO: A Garden for Play in Little Village Come learn more about the Jardincito project occurring at 23rd and Whipple. We will walk around the neighborhood to share information about the Jardincito project with community members. Youth and adults are invited! June 15th, 10 a.m. Spry School Library 2400 S. Marshall Blvd Chicago, IL 60623 For more… Read more JARDINCITO – 23rd and Whipple – Community Meeting this Saturday, June 15th
This week preSERVE garden, located in North Lawndale, shared its harvest with Franciscan House of Mary & Joseph, a shelter that has been providing refuge for over 30 years on Chicago’s West Side. The shelter will put the veggies to good use, either handing them out directly to clients or using them to prepare fresh… Read more Share the Harvest: preSERVE shows off its spring produce
View NeighborSpace in a larger map External Site Mozart’s Community Garden is a neighborhood community garden in the beginning stages. Its mission is to serve the community in the southeast corner of Humboldt Park. It’s a collaboration by neighbors seeking to bring more community space to the area, growing their own food in a food… Read more Mozart’s Community Garden
The KAM Isaiah Israel Congregation is holding their free Food Justice and Sustainability Young Leadership Summer Program for the third year: Food Justice and Sustainability. Leadership Development. A unique opportunity for teens. Apply to KAM Isaiah Israel Congregation’s third annual Food Justice and Sustainability Young Leadership Summer Program. Experience the world of urban agriculture with other… Read more Free July Teen Urban Ag Camp at KAMII
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