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Education — Community Gardening

Community Gardening Programs

Green Youth Farm	Blooming Branches	Neighborhood Gardening	School Gardening

The Chicago Botanic Garden is proud to support community gardening efforts around the Chicago area in a variety of ways:

School gardens can receive assistance through a fee-based consultation from one of our experienced school garden designers. Please call (847) 835-8352 for more information. In the meantime, please visit our comprehensive how-to guide to school gardening, the School Garden Wizard.

Gardening Outside the Walls matches volunteers interested in lending a helping hand at community and school gardens on a regular basis with gardens in the city that fit their schedule, location and interests. Each garden matched with a volunteer, or "garden assistant" receives as small budget with which to purchase garden enhancements and/or snacks for garden workdays. Click here if you are interested in receiving a Garden Assistant Application (PDF).

Blooming Branches provides adult garden education to library branches in the North Suburban Library System. For a $200 fee, a trained Master Gardener will present a 1-1 ½ hour presentation on one of a variety of topics to library patrons at NSLS branches. Click here if you are a NSLS library branch interested in participating in the program.

The Speaker's Bureau provides a list of speakers, their topics, fees and availability to the general public and can assist program committees in finding just the right speaker for that special event. Contact Eliza Fournier at (847) 835-8352 for more information, or click here for the Speaker's Bureau list.

Click on a topic below for more information on our currently available programs.