YMEN provides significant resources and holistic youth programming, including academic support, leadership development activities, community service opporutunites to young men in the North Lawndale community.

In 1996, concerned residents of 3400 Flournoy block transformed an empty eyesore in a beautiful garden. This garden has a large variety of perennials, shrubs, trees and annuals.

Stated since 1998. Goal was to show community that they can improve standards and quality of life through gardening variety of flowers and vegetables

Making green living housing possible for the average person.

This garden was created in 1986 from an empty lot under the Pink Line train tracks by the Earles’ family. It was made to help beautify the city. It has flowers, vegetables, and hand paintings.

Since 1995 transforms vacant lots – full of garbage and weeds, and used by youth and young adults for loitering – into beautiful and productive Community Garden.

The preSERVE garden is a partnership between Slow Food Chicago, the North Lawndale Greening Committee and the Chicago Honey Co-Op. It started in 2010, arising from the desire to get more deeply involved in community gardening at the neighborhood level.

Affordable Legal Counsel for Green Businesses, Co-ops, and Social Enterprises