Community Garden and Beautification Project The SRB Community Spirit Garden is owned by NeighborSpace. Then, we all share in its bounty. Cornelius Food Pantry.
The only nonprofit urban land trust in Chicago that preserves and sustains gardens on behalf of dedicated community groups.
�From its inception, we did not want to be allotment gardening, or every bed managed by its owner. It is truly community and we all chip in for the collective good of the garden. Another goal from the start was to be able to donate to local charities. The 2016 growing season,
11/03/2023
Jefferson Park resident Del Norwood dies at age 83; she was a founder of SRB Community Spirit Garden - Nadig Newspapers - Northwest Side Local Newspapers by BRIAN NADIG Del Norwood, a founder of the SRB Spirit Community Garden near Central and Higgins avenues in Jefferson Park, recently passed away at the age of 83. She also was a board...
05/01/2021
Looking for help with snow removal this winter. All volunteers welcome!
08/29/2020
Only 3 Cabbage plants grown this year and they were big one's when harvested.
08/17/2020
Today's donation from SRB to St. Cornelius food pantry.
The garden has donated over 100 pounds so far this year to our food pantry!
We're looking for gardeners to donate some of there native plants to our pollinator garden. The garden has started to plant a variety of native plants along the parkway on Central and Edmunds Avenues.
The goal is to assist in the survival of various pollinator that visit the garden throughout the growing season. If you plan on donating please provide a label identifying what
plant species your donating. That will help us in maintaining the proper care of the plant. You can place your donation inside the garden by the shed.
Thanks!!
..and so the donations begin!
On Monday, July 8th, St. Cornelius Food Pantry received 12 bags of red and green lettuce, (with a radish in each). We also included 14 k**b onions, 2 cucumbers and a bag of basil leaves. All this weighed 10 lbs.
Slow start to the browning season, but with the weather heating up, it will be much more.
Thanks to Jan, who heads up
( aka does most, not all, of donation work)
Everyone's hard work to get the garden growing is beginning to show.
Won't you join us?
The more people we have, the more we can donate to help our neighbors. (When you help you also get produce!)
Saturday mornings- See you there!
Here's our notes from Jan for the work day on Saturday!
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A good crew showed up to work at the garden including: Herb, Kathy M., Katherine Z.. Jamie and Del
(to sell Mantis egg cases)
Geo bins were set up and material added; compost bins were attended to. Rosemary plant overwintered at home was returned to the herb bed to begin its summer vacation.
Beds were planted with turnips, butternut squash, acorn squash, yellow summer squash, zucchini, kale and peas.. Yellow markers were added to all planted beds and master list was updated.
A new volunteer, Brandon, appeared and said he lives in the neighborhood and was interested in getting involved so we put him to work with Herb. He said he'd even be happy to work on getting rid of the dreaded creeping charlie on the parkway !!! Bless his heart.
The weather threatened so we all left by 11:30.
Thank you for all your hard work everyone!
PRAYING MANTIS UPDATE:
Sorry, we have a small window for these this year, and don't have the tech end set up.(ugh)
Taking the responsibility for the shortfall.
Monday @ Noon is the last chance to call & order.
Call Del
(at a reasonable hour please)
773-725-8300 with order & questions.
Payment on pickup and please pickup.
Thanks!
The SRB Community Spirit Garden land is owned by NeighborSpace. The only nonprofit urban land trust in Chicago that preserves and sustains gardens on behalf of dedicated community groups.
From its inception, we did not want to be allotment gardening, or every bed managed by its owner. It is truly community and we all chip in for the collective good of the garden. Then, we all share in its bounty.
Another goal from the start was to be able to donate to local charities.
The 2018 growing season, we donated over 600 lbs to the St. Cornelius Food Pantry!
It felt great to be able to contribute with fresh vegetables, and we were told they were very much appreciated. With our growing group, we hope to break that pound mark every year.
We have several Master Gardeners to guide us, but we welcome all levels of expertise to our garden. We want to share with anyone in the community who would like to experience the joy of gardening to join us.
We not only want to grow the actual vegetables, herbs, fruits and flowers, but grow our community too.
It’s like baseball, you have to “play” the field if you want to go to bat.
You can’t just come in for the goods if you haven’t helped.
We have taken a neighborhood eyesore and turned it into a luscious, thriving beautiful corner.
Please join us every /any Saturday @ the corner of Higgins & Central
Walk up, introduce yourself, and dig in!
Look forward to seeing you soon!
(All you need to bring are gloves, water on hot days and wear your work clothes)
| Monday | 6am - 9pm |
| Tuesday | 6am - 9pm |
| Wednesday | 6am - 9pm |
| Thursday | 6am - 9pm |
| Friday | 6am - 9pm |
| Saturday | 6am - 9pm |
| Sunday | 6am - 9pm |