Growing Exchange

An Easy Way to Help Build Community: Vote for the Growing Exchange

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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

Community Exchange Garden

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The “garden of hope” in the South Chicago neighborhood went through a period of decline as this Chicago block was overrun by street violence. Eventually, the residents and the Centro Communitario Juan Diego decided to take action and reclaimed their neighborhood, their lives and their garden.