The West Woodlawn Botanic Garden & Village Farm Initiative Is Born!

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HOW WE WERE …BORN… Our journey from blight to beauty in a single year.

2013-2014

Our gateway to America’s first square mile urban oasis.

Sustainability Teaching Garden

60th & St. Lawrence Avenue

Vacant Blight For Decades Spring 2013

Duane Jarrett Chief Gardening Officer BIG: Blacks in Green™

He’s a village treasure we discovered by door-to-door flyering.

“Unfunded” Improvement By Blacks in Green Neighbor Stewards In One Year

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West Woodlawn Botanic Garden & Village Farm Initiative St. Lawrence Gateway Summer 2013

West Woodlawn Botanic Garden & Village Farm Initiative St. Lawrence Gateway Spring 2014

Awaiting Seating & Signage

Spring Garden 2014 Prairie Garden [taking root, Below]

Delicate spring becomes Bold summer 2014

SUMMER 2014 GARDEN They say years 1-2-3 of the garden it Sleeps, then Creeps, then Leaps.

Here we are mid-summer, Year 2.

Wisdom. Patience. Stewardship.

Horticulture Plus Agriculture

Intimate Respite Where pride in neighbors doing for self comes together to rest and share.

Summer Garden 2014

West Woodlawn Botanic Garden & Village Farm Initiative St. Lawrence Gateway Summer 2014

Welcome To Fall

Our Garden Entrance On The Alley Fall 2014

Prairie Garden ~ Fall 2014 Gift of IDNR

The Shade Garden Fall 2014

A Winding Welcome

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead Hundreds and varieties of gardens – large and small – are planned for West Woodlawn. Join us in making history. A mile-square Botanic Garden & Village Farm System – an oasis being birthed from the blight by neighbors, for the world.

Naomi Davis, President BIG: Blacks in Green™ 6011 S. St. Lawrence Avenue, Chicago 60637 www.blacksingreen.org 773-678-9541