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1112 Mobile Street, Waterloo, IA 50703

Offers a community garden to the community during the months of June-August. 

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834 North Highland Avenue, Aurora, IL 60506

Community Garden members each have their own plots. Members join together to help take care of common areas. Located on Highland Avenue, right across the street from Marie’s West pantry and main office.

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505 West Stoughton Street, Urbana, IL 61801

Offers a wide range of programs for individuals of all ages. Services include sports, aquatics, community gardening, fitness and wellness, nature programs, teen programs, summer camps, dance, fitness arts, culture, and environmental programs. There are 20 parks, 8 facilities, and numerous special events for all members of the community. 

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253 E 159th St, Harvey, IL 60426

Restoration Ministries supports the Harvey community and beyond through programming such as community gardening, the Christmas Toy Store, and holiday baskets.

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1150 West 13th Street, Chicago, IL 60608

Maxwell Street Community Garden's gardening program offers paid gardening plots for community members to secure a raised bed garden with mulch and water from the nearby fire department.

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1241 South Pulaski Road, Chicago, IL 60623

Young Men's Educational Network's (YMEN) comprehensive programs offer a wide range of educational support, mentoring from positive role models, spiritual and emotional guidance, vocational classes in the arts, career-based and entrepreneurial education, sports and recreational activities, family supportive services, and service learning to more than 300 students annually.

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East Marquette Drive & South Cornell Drive, Chicago, IL 60649

Urban Growers Collective (UGC) provides a public space that brings together community members through gardening. The season begins at the beginning of April and wraps up at the end of October.

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919 Eighth Street, Waukegan, IL 60085

Offers three community gardens in Lake County. Provides opportunities for people to learn about planting and caring for a garden Also offers free samples of foods from the gardens. Provides a program for middle-school age youth to learn about the following: Sustainable agricultural practices Healthy food preparation Nutritional eating habits and exercise

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6 East Main Street, Round Lake, IL 60073

Provides case management to help community members access primary care and behavioral health. Offers health education, community garden, Zumba classes, and referrals to community resources.

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5339 West 25th Street, Cicero, IL 60804

Corazón Community Services provides restorative justice workshops, gang intervention/mediations, street violence response, court-mandated community service opportunities, and monthly gang tattoo removal.

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2010 Dewey Avenue, Evanston, IL 60201

During the spring, summer, and fall seasons, children in this program learn about planting fresh produce, urban agriculture, entrepreneurship, how to cook with garden produce, how to harvest food, and how to sell their harvests at local farmers' markets.

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7200 South Ingleside Avenue, Chicago, IL 60619

Gary Comer Youth Center offers an urban agriculture program and a community rooftop garden where youth can learn to grow healthy food and cook it.

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2759 South Harding Avenue, Chicago, IL 60623

Enlace works with community leaders to transform empty lots into community gardens. These spaces provide opportunities for healthy food production, safe outdoor recreation, community-based education and community building. They also serve as powerful models for sustainable practices and conservation, and they engage youth and families in environmental education through collaborations with key partners.

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Nobel Neighbors provides a community garden at 4052 West Potomac in Chicago, IL, for children and adults.

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205 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801

Offers free seeds, seedlings, tools, soil, containers, miscellaneous supplies, gardening expertise, and educational resources to any interested party in the Champaign-Urbana area who would like to start their own garden.

Produce grown in gardens may be used by the owner for their own food needs and/or distributed to community members who are facing economic and food access challenges through a Solidarity Gardens CU distribution network. Participants will receive a Solidarity Garden yard sign, donated by Cunningham Township, to acknowledge their effort.

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812 North Logan Avenue, Danville, IL 61832

Offers support services for older adults, services include friendly calling, home visits, shopping assistance, SHIP (Senior Health Insurance Program), exercise classes, ramp construction, and garden share.

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501 South 7th Street, Lincoln, NE 68508

Helps individuals and households access locally grown, affordable, and high-quality food through a community garden and farm development program. Working largely with refugee, immigrant, and new American populations, the program provides critical food access to vulnerable portions of the community while educating and empowering others to practice and move towards sustainable food practices.

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4010 7th Avenue, Kearney, NE 68845

Garden plots for people who would like to own and run and harvest a garden.

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1155 SE Boone Drive, North entry of Westview Church in the lower level, Waukee, IA 50263

Offers a community garden that provides fresh produce to patrons of the food pantry. Clients receive a punch card to access the garden once a week during the months of July, August and September for a share of fresh produce harvested and distributed by volunteers.

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21585 440th Street, Oakland, IA 51560

Gifts and visits to children in crisis, with special needs, and with life-threatening illnesses.

Funds other organizations with a similar mission of aiding children.

Toy drives, letters to 'Santa' handling, prepare gifts, donate funds, visit children in hospitals and homes year round.

Annual dinner, raffle, silent and oral auction, and other events to raise funds for children.

Santa's children/ K.I.D.S program distributes clothing, toys and other products to children referred through their local fire department in Iowa and Nebraska.

Day camp program for medically fragile kids.

Garden camp program all done by volunteers with produce going to those in need through food pantries.
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5114 South Elizabeth Street, Chicago, IL 60609

The Community Garden (The Farm) cultivates relationships in the Back of the Yards and Englewood Communitites through engagement, education and access in an urban farm.The Farm provides environmental education and weekly distributions of fresh produce to community members.

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8918 South Green Street, Chicago, IL 60620

The Gaia Movement USA - Chicago operates a garden community members to grow vegetables, herbs, and flowers.

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4215 West Washington Street, Chicago, IL 60624

Garfield Park Community Council provides a community garden that produces local food.

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4747 Lincoln Mall Drive , Suite 601, Matteson, IL 60443

University of Illinois Extension - Cook County - South Suburban operates a public space for community members to grow fruits, vegetables, herbs, and flowers.

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9000 South Mackinaw Avenue, Chicago, IL 60617

Urban Growers Collective (UGC) provides a public space that brings together community members through gardening. The season begins at the beginning of April and wraps up at the end of October.

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