Our friends at Kilbourn Park Organic Greenhouse are having a Gardening Exchange event. Drop off times start this Saturday, January 5th. Check it out: Kilbourn Park Organic Greenhouse’s 3rd annual Gardening Exchange event is coming up on Saturday, March 9th, 2013. Do you have things you are ready to pass on to a fellow gardener? Did… Read more Check out Kilbourn Park Organic Greenhouse’s Gardening Exchange
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
View NeighborSpace in a larger map The Dante Garden is an open park setting with a centerpiece dedicated to Mrs. A. W. Malone. Mrs. Malone was the original backer and financial supporter of the garden and its development. The space contains two smaller gardens on each end of the open park setting, with many annual… Read more 6900 South Dante Garden
View NeighborSpace in a larger map This garden was started after a house was torn down and the neighbors (the Ashford family) decided to transform the lot into a garden to beautify the neighborhood. The garden was originally called the Ashford Garden, was renamed the Keystone Garden, and finally, after garden leader Annie Beck passed… Read more Ashford Annie Beck Garden
View NeighborSpace in a larger map The garden was founded in 1980 by Nathaniel Dean. Two homes originally sat on the lot, but burned and were demolished. Mr. Dean and his family cleaned up the lot and transformed it into a community garden. Mr. Dean and family are the primary gardeners, but others from the… Read more 3317 West Walnut Garden
View NeighborSpace in a larger map External site Mercy Housing Lakefront, located in Austin, provides support and housing for individuals who would not otherwise be able to afford it. There, the Mercy Housing Garden partners with the Angelic Organics Learning Center, and has sold produce to neighbors via a weekly vegetable stand throughout the growing… Read more Mercy Housing Youth Garden
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