Regions / Community Areas

Mozart’s Community Garden

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

Jardincito

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

Workday at our new garden at 23rd and Whipple this Friday

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

Share the Harvest: Whitney Young and Whipple Team Up

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

Share the Harvest: Starting a Produce Giveaway at Your Garden

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

Two Workdays Coming Up in North Lawndale

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

The Growing Exchange Wins Burpee Vote

The votes have been tabulated, and it looks like our very own Growing Exchange garden at 8805 S Exchange has won a visit from the Burpee Seed Truck. The Burpee Truck will visit on May 8th, giving away seedlings, produce, cooking demos, and more. Congratulation, gardeners!