Read about how one NeighborSpace garden has faced the challenge of water conservation. This article has lots of great tips and examples. For the past two years, every April through September, 63 year-old Carlos Nunez, has been waking up early morning to go water his plants, monitor the garden for about two to four hours… Read more Friday’s Good Read: Water Conservation at Growing Station
Following up on their most recent gathering, this new garden group is meeting to help get ready for the new season: Spring Garden Meet Up Saturday, April 13th Meet in the community garden, 7032 S. Merrill 11 am-1pm Questions? Contact NeighborSpace at (773) 826-3240 or info@neighbor-space.org.
Our friends at El Jardin Communitario de la 23rd y Whipple, in partnership with Community Links High School, the Boys and Girls Club, Taller de Jose, La Familia Unida, Alderman Cardenas, the Trust for Public Land, and NeighborSpace, are starting the first play garden in Chicago. Check out the details below, and feel free to distribute this printable flyer.… Read more April 6th: Announcing Planning Meeting for Play Garden in Little Village
A terrific grist.org article about gardening and community with Riverbank Neighbors: Riverbank Neighbors reflects a shift. Nature — parks and forests, farms and gardens — historically have been at the core of community. Today’s environmental concerns, such as climate change and mass extinction, increase the desire for people to live in more tightly knit communities.… Read more “Community thrives along a nearly forgotten slice of an urban river.”
UPDATE: EVENT CANCELLED. It’s just too darn cold, and the ground is still very much frozen. We’ll post a new date if we get one. Slow Food Chicago and preSERVE Garden have an exciting partnership. Here’s how you can join them on their first workday of the year. Volunteers needed! Spring is here,… Read more UPDATE: EVENT CANCELLED — Slow Food and preSERVE are joining forces, and you can help them.
Erin Fuller, a gardener at the Merchant Park Community Garden in the Irving Park neighborhood, initiated the connection with a local WIC office after realizing they often had extra produce. Gardeners glean weekly during the growing season, and Erin delivers the produce to WIC’s nutritionist who is then able to make sure the clients that need the produce… Read more Sharing the Harvest: Donating Produce Engages the Community
On Thursday, March 21st, a coalition of Pilsen community activists will go on an “Infinite Ripples of Peace March” concluding at El Jardin de la Mariposas. Learn more about the march here.
Looking for a garden plot to call home this spring? Join the 7000 S. Merrill Community Garden (formerly known as O’Keeffe School Victory Garden)! The Community Garden at 7000 S. Merrill is recruiting community leaders and interested gardeners to grow together this season and we would like you to be a part of it! NeighborSpace… Read more Attention South Shore: Join Up with 7000 S Merrill Community Garden this Season!
Check out this article about a new partnership between NeighborSpace and several other great organizations that will revitalize a 2.6 acre lot in East Garfield Park with urban agriculture and job training. “This land will produce more than just fresh vegetables for Chicago families. It also will create jobs for those who are overcoming barriers… Read more Chicago FarmWorks sprouting in East Garfield Park
LaJuana Jackson has been one of NeighborSpace’s all-star garden leaders in recent times, working hard to revitalize the Growing Exchange garden in South Chicago. Now the garden has a chance to win free plants and other great garden stuff from the Burpee Grow Anywhere Tour. Please click here to vote and help them win. Dear… Read more An Easy Way to Help Build Community: Vote for the Growing Exchange
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