Chicago Botanic Garden

Education

Community Gardening

PHOTO:Windy City Harvest

green youth farm

windy city harvest

Native Seed Garden

Cook County Sheriff's
Boot Camp

School Gardening

Green Youth Farm

The Green Youth Farm program offers students the opportunity to learn all aspects of organic farming — from planting seeds and starts to managing a hive of bees, from cooking with the food they grow to selling it at farmstands and markets.		 PHOTO: Windy City Harvest PHOTO: Windy City Harvest
Windy City Harvest

Windy City Harvest is an organic-method vegetable- and plant-growing enterprise that provides certificate instruction in sustainable horticulture. It is delivered by the Chicago Botanic Garden in partnership with Richard J. Daley College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago.		 PHOTO: Windy City Harvest PHOTO: Windy City Harvest

Cook County Sheriff's
Boot Camp

The Chicago Botanic Garden and Cook County Sheriff's Boot Camp (CCBC) partnered to create a three-quarter-acre farm within the CCBC compound. The farm is one of the educational programs that serve inmates during their incarceration. Participants in the Boot Camp Garden grow, maintain, and learn about organic vegetable production.		 PHOTO: Cook County Boot Camp PHOTO: Cook County Boot Camp
Native Seed Garden

While serving the needs of young adults who need transitional job opportunities, the Native Seed Garden project will grow northeastern Illinois prairie species that are increasingly rare due to habitat loss and degradation, and will build up seed stocks needed for land restoration and landscape plantings. 		PHOTO: Planting Seed Garden PHOTO: Native Seed Garden

For information on the state of community gardening in Chicago, please view Urban Agriculture Projects in Chicago.