It was a typically cold and windy Chicago day on February 23rd, but that didn’t stop over 200 gardeners from gathering at the first Connecting Chicago Community Gardeners (CCCG). Green- and community-minded people from all across Chicago came for a day of panel discussions and workshops aimed at figuring out how to keep Chicago’s… Read more CCCG: Growing Forward into the Future
View NeighborSpace in a larger map Website: Monticello Community Garden The garden started as an informal project. It was once an abandoned building that was torn down and then the community began to ‘guerrilla’ garden there. Around 2000 the lot was beginning to take some shape with the input of the neighbors on the 2200… Read more Monticello Garden
View NeighborSpace in a larger map External site In February of 2009, five residents founded Growing Station (now known as El Paseo) community garden. They wanted to grow their own food and contribute to their community. They began searching for a vacant lot to build an organic community vegetable garden, eventually asking Alderman Danny Solis… Read more El Paseo Community Garden
View NeighborSpace in a larger map The garden was founded in 1996 by Rose McNutt with the help of NeighborSpace and Greencorps Chicago. Rose lived two houses down from a vacant lot that was being filled with junk and she didn’t want to look at it any longer. She wanted to turn the lot into… Read more Peace in the Valley Garden
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