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Come join us at the Joe-Ella Williams Memorial Garden for a planting event.

Lovely weather is predicted for this Sunday (71°-56°) and we will be planting a TON of donated berries in the Joe-Ella Williams Memorial Garden at 3817 W Flournoy St. There will be free snacks, free drinks, and free community connection!

We will be planting:

- 10 Blackberries
- 7 Raspberries
- 3 Cherries
- 2 Honeyberries
- 1 Juneberry
- 1 Mulberry
- 1 Black Currant
- 1 Partridge in a Pear Tree

That last item is a joke! We gardeners have fun. Please consider coming out to support this local garden in a food desert.

Appreciate you! Hope to see you there!

Wednesday 4-7pm 25% of sales support the NeighborSpace protected Whipple Community Garden.

Meet Vicky, Lead Gardener at Madison Street Garden, one of the largest community gardens in GPCC’s Garden Network! Madison Street Garden has been creating opportunities to build community around food and gardening for over a decade. Their work has deeply benefitted from the work that the Youth Garden Corps does every summer. In recent years, the numbers of gardeners involved in maintaining the garden has decreased, but the Youth Garden Corps provides assistance to ensure that the garden can grow the food that feeds our community and supplies the Neighborhood Market with amazing produce.

The Madison Street Garden creates a fertile learning environment for the Youth Garden Corps to learn about community gardening, Garfield Park’s food system, and the people involved in feeding their community. Vicky believes that it is crucial for youth from Garfield Park to have this knowledge so they can bring it with them as they become more active members of their community. Even if the youth don’t become involved in urban agriculture in their careers, they will have respect for the workers who do.

But above all, Vicky emphasizes that the work that the Youth Garden Corps members do is essential to Garfield Park’s food system as a whole! If the youth didn’t help w**d Vicky’s garden, you wouldn’t see their beautiful produce at the Community Market. If we didn’t have any produce at the Market, we wouldn’t have a Market at all. The Market partners with other small businesses that build on our mission of increasing access to healthy food in Garfield Park.

Join Vicky today in supporting the Youth Garden Corps! Donate at the link in the comments below. And if you'd like to donate your time, you can also find information about how to volunteer in at the link in the comments.

We have raised $3,259.25 in donations and pledges, which have been matched by an anonymous donor in honor of Angela for a total of $6,518.50! We only need another $340.75 to maximize our matching donation and to help us reach our goal of $10,000. If you are interested in donating via check or donor-advised fund, please contact Development and Communications Manager Patrick Gallagher Landes at [email protected].

Please support the Youth Garden Corps. Did you know that Wellness Director Angela Taylor has been building community through gardens for over 20 years? When Angela moved to West Garfield Park nearly 30 years ago, she began cleaning up the empty lot next to her and turning it into a community garden, helping to found the Garfield Park Garden Network, which hosts our Youth Garden Corps every summer.

By donating to the Youth Garden Corps, you can support this program, which has been building a grassroots network of youth who feel they can support their community through gardening and urban agriculture. Join Angela in supporting the Youth Garden Corps!

Donate today!

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They've raised $1,850.75 in donations and pledges, which have been matched by an anonymous donor in honor of Angela for a total of $3,701.50! They need another $1,749.50 to maximize their matching donation and to help them reach their goal of $10,000.

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