Community Gardening - 26 results

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Urban Farm Program - Chicago Lights - Chicago Lights Urban Farm

444 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60654

https://chicagolights.org/urban-farm/

The Urban Farm program cultivates an engaged community through educational and employment opportunities and access to fresh, local, and sustainably grown produce. Teens learn all the techniques central to growing food and maintaining an urban farm, customer service skills, nutrition and cooking knowledge, self-efficacy and responsibility, leadership, communication, and job skills. Students are paid a stipend through After School Matters.

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Community Gardening

Extended Child Care

Community Gardens - Enlace Chicago - Main Office

2759 South Harding Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60623

https://www.enlacechicago.org/health

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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Community Gardening

Paid Gardening Plots - Maxwell Street Community Garden - Main Location

1150 West 13th Street, Chicago, IL, 60608

https://maxwellstreetgarden.org/

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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Community Gardening

Community gardening - Nobel Neighbors

https://nobelneighbors.org/

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

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Community Gardening

Community Gardens - Urban Growers Collective - South Chicago Farm

9000 South Mackinaw Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60617

https://urbangrowerscollective.org/communitygardens/

Urban Growers Collective 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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Community Gardening

Community Garden - Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation - Main Office

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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Community Gardening

Community Garden - Chicago Lights - Chicago Lights Urban Farm

444 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60654

https://chicagolights.org/urban-farm/

The Community Garden encourages people in the local community to become involved in the Urban Farm through volunteering and helping maintain communal plots.

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Community Gardening

Organic Garden Farm - The Gaia Movement USA - Chicago

8918 South Green Street, Chicago, IL, 60620

https://www.gaia-movement-usa.org/

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

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Community Gardening

YMEN - Young Men's Educational Network - Main Location

1241 South Pulaski Road, Chicago, IL, 60623

https://www.ymenchicago.com/who-are-we

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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Community Gardening

Subject Tutoring

General Youth Employment Programs

Youth Violence Prevention

Leadership Development

General Household Goods Provision

Adult/Child Mentoring Programs

Food Pantries

Foster Street Urban Agriculture Program - Family Focus - Evanston

2010 Dewey Avenue, Evanston, IL, 60201

https://www.family-focus.org

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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Community Gardening

Urban Agriculture - Gary Comer Youth Center - Main Office

7200 South Ingleside Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60619

https://www.gcychome.org/

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

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Community Gardening

Community Garden - Garfield Park Community Council - Anathoth Gardens Office

4215 West Washington Street, Chicago, IL, 60624

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

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Community Gardening

Horticulture - University of Illinois Extension - Cook South Suburban

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

https://extension.illinois.edu/cook

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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Community Gardening

Community Programs - Restoration Ministries - Main Office

253 East 159th Street, Harvey, IL, 60426

https://restorationministries.net/community-programs/

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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Community Gardening

Holiday Gifts/Toys

Thanksgiving Baskets

Christmas Baskets

MARIE'S COMMUNITY GARDEN | MARIE WILKINSON FOOD PANTRY

834 North Highland Avenue, Aurora, IL, 60506

https://mariewilkinsonfoodpantry.org/programs/community-garden

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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Community Gardening

Community Gardening | MANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER - Healthy Families Program

6 East Main Street, Round Lake Park, IL , 60073

https://www.mamfrc.org

Offers free health and wellness services for immigrant families residing in Lake County. Provides case management to help families determine health care needs and access care. Includes screenings, referrals, language interpretation, and benefits application assistance. Also offers the following programs: - Health education on topics catered to the Latino community - Community garden - Zumba classes

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Community Gardening

Passion Pullman Organic Garden - The House of Chloe, Inc.

10701 South Champlain Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60628

https://thehouseofchloeinc.org/

The House of Chloe, Inc. brings together members of a community to grow fruits, vegetables, and herbs. Flowers can also be grown. The items are donated to the food pantry.

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Community Gardening

Community Garden - European American Association - Main Location

2827 West Division Street, Chicago, IL, 60622

https://www.eaachicago.org/

The European American Association provides a public space that brings together community members to grow fruits, vegetables, herbs, and flowers.

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Community Gardening

SOLIDARITY GARDENS CU | CUNNINGHAM TOWNSHIP

205 West Green Street, Urbana, IL, 61801

https://www.solidarity-gardens-cu.org/

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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Home Gardening Assistance/Supplies

Community Gardening

MARIE'S COMMUNITY GARDEN | MARIE WILKINSON FOOD PANTRY

801 Zeigler Avenue, Door 33, Aurora, IL, 60505

https://mariewilkinsonfoodpantry.org/programs/community-garden

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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Community Gardening

Community Gardening | ROBERTI COMMUNITY HOUSE - Community Gardening

919 8th Street, Waukegan, IL , 60085

https://www.roberticommunityhouse.org

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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Community Gardening

Safety and Violence Prevention - Corazón Community Services - Main Office

5339 West 25th Street, Cicero, IL, 60804

https://www.corazoncs.org/

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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Court Ordered Community Service Referral Programs

Youth Violence Prevention

Community Gardening

Tattoo Removal

Youth Community Service Programs

Gang Programs

Community Gardens - Urban Growers Collective - Jackson Park Community Farm

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

https://urbangrowerscollective.org/communitygardens/

Urban Growers Collective 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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Community Gardening

PARKS AND RECREATION | URBANA PARK DISTRICT

505 West Stoughton Street, Urbana, IL, 61801

https://www.urbanaparks.org/

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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Day Camps

Public Parks

General Recreational Activities/Sports

Community Gardening

Physical Fitness

FAITH IN ACTION | FAITH IN ACTION - VERMILION COUNTY

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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Friendly Telephoning

Friendly Visiting

Errand Running/Shopping Assistance

Home Maintenance and Minor Repair Services

Medicare Information/Counseling

Community Gardening

General Health Insurance Information/Counseling