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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

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.

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.

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

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

Maxwell Street Community Garden offers community gardening plots that are farmed for vegetables and fresh produce to be shared with the neighborhood.

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

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

Mildred Franks Community Development Corporation's (MF-CDC's) Community Gardening Initiative, launching April 2026 in partnership with the SONYA Foundation, gives residents the opportunity to grow their own fresh produce. Vegetable seeds, planting materials, and guided instruction are provided. All skill levels welcome.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.