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.

The garden was created with the idea that local families can be more self-sustaining while enjoying locally grown healthy food. The garden has a variety of vegetables grown without pesticides and herbicides.

This Garden has a variety of perennials, annuals, scrubs and trees.

Creating a peaceful green environment for the community to have conversation and work together. Open since July, 2007.

Created July 2007. Another lot turn into a garden where neighbors can come together and become acquainted with each other.

It is a Library with a garden

Chicago URBAN ART RETREAT CENTER is a non-profit organization that provides safe space to make art and grow as a person. We offer personal growth opportunities, therapeutic art programs, and consciousness raising regarding social justice issues.

The North Lawndale Greening Committee (NLGC) is a 501(C)(3) public charity that seeks the improvement of the North Lawndale Community through gardening, beautification, education, and youth training programs.