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
This Saturday, from 10 am to 3 pm, Mozart’s Community Garden will be holding a garage sale from 10 am to 3 pm to help raise funds for their new site. There’s a raffle, too, including such prizes as an air hockey table, a waffle maker, and a George Foreman Grill. You can also make… Read more Garage Sale for Mozart’s Community Garden
Our friends at Advocates for Urban Agriculture will help you learn more about pantry gardening at a Sharing the Harvest meet up next week at the Garfield Park Conservatory.
The Jardincito Nature Play Garden is a place where young children can play in and explore nature right in their own neighborhood. Rather than the traditional swings and slides, there are features borrowed from the natural world: an earthen mound, balancing logs, a herd of boulders, a pebble pool, a play deck, and play huts.… Read more Jardincito
Celebrate International Biodiversity Day at the Field Museum with our friends at the Peterson Garden Project. They’ve got a fun, tasty lineup for the event: FOOD ORIGINS: Travel the globe through the lens of David Cavagnaro’s camera. Learn about the geographic origins of our favorite fruit and vegetable varieties and the diaspora that is responsible for… Read more International Biodiversity Day is May 22nd
Little Village is welcoming a new NeighborSpace-protected garden at 23rd and Whipple with a workday this Friday. Come join us and get your hands in the earth. Good Afternoon, Join us at the 23rd and Whipple Community Garden Workday. The workday will take place this Friday, April 26th from 9am -2pm. Help us build and install… Read more Workday at our new garden at 23rd and Whipple this Friday
We here at NeighborSpace are proud to have been invited to participate in the Chicago Community Trust’s 98th Anniversary Gala. The Trust is one of our biggest supporters. To celebrate, we’re making corsages that represent the unique variety of NeighborSpace’s 80+ community gardens: these will be corsages built not just from flowers, but from vegetables… Read more Get Crafty with NeighborSpace this Sunday and Monday
Students from Whitney Young High School have teamed up with NeighborSpace’s Whipple Community Garden in Logan Square to help start a pantry plot. Community engagement is one of the ten pillars that students must fulfill for an environmental project in their biology class. This communal vegetable plot, dedicated to growing produce for a nearby food pantry, will bring community… Read more Share the Harvest: Whitney Young and Whipple Team Up
Are you a community gardener, but you don’t feel a sense of community? Why not start a communal vegetable plot to grow food for others? Monarch Garden, an allotment garden in Humboldt Park, launched a produce giveaway in their garden last summer. The gardeners dedicated two plots, one vegetable and one herb, for donation. Throughout… Read more Share the Harvest: Starting a Produce Giveaway at Your Garden
The North Lawndale Greening Committee has two workdays scheduled soon. First: Saturday, April 20 at the preSERVE Garden at 1233 S Central Park. Our partners for this garden are Slow Food Chicago, the Chicago Honey Co-op, NeighborSpace, and the North Lawndale Greening. We focus on healthy food production in this garden. Last year we raised five varieties of… Read more Two Workdays Coming Up in North Lawndale
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