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Spring Days = Garden Boxes!!!
Back by popular demand, we will be getting 4 pallets of premade garden boxes. A big thanks to the folks at Feeding America for making this possible. If you are interested in getting some pre-made garden boxes, come by or contact us at [email protected].
Last year we added more than 18 garden boxes to our garden here, and at our house at 800 Thrush. Thanks to the folks at Feeding America we only had to buy the dirt.
With the rising cost of groceries, growing your own produce is a no brainer!
Here at the Community House we believe in Healthy Body & Healthy Mind, and most of all Healthy Community!
Love Thy Neighbor.
Last year we added more than 18 garden boxes to our garden here, and at our house at 800 Thrush. Thanks to the folks at Feeding America we only had to buy the dirt.
With the rising cost of groceries, growing your own produce is a no brainer!
Here at the Community House we believe in Healthy Body & Healthy Mind, and most of all Healthy Community!
Love Thy Neighbor.
Fall Is Here
We may not have had the most successful crop of pumpkins this year, and perhaps our garden was a bit unkempt, but we added 16 garden boxes, and there is lots of room for improvement.
October 28th will be our 3 year anniversary of the very start of the Community House. We will get together at 1PM at the Community House to carve pumpkins and make candied apples. What can be more fun than that?
October 28th will be our 3 year anniversary of the very start of the Community House. We will get together at 1PM at the Community House to carve pumpkins and make candied apples. What can be more fun than that?
So Many New Garden Boxes
So many new garden boxes were added this year. The kids had a great time painting and filling and planting. We even were able to use our saved seed from last year for out lettuce (2 plantings) and we also had multiple plantings of the seed onions that were donated by our neighbor Sarah. She is truly an Ambassador of Kindness.
Were we ready for Better Homes and Gardens? Maybe not this year, but hey one of these days.
Were we ready for Better Homes and Gardens? Maybe not this year, but hey one of these days.
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Spring Will Be Here Soon
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Even though, as I write this, we still have snow on the ground. Spring will be here before you know it. There is no time like the present to get involved in planning our garden for this spring.
After the publicity from the destruction of our garden by the city, we received offers of support to rebuild. We picked up close to 50 garden boxes courtesy of Feed Illinois, and will be working with the Master Gardeners from the University of Illinois program. If you love to garden, and would like to come and help us as we make our plans for this coming spring, please contact us at: [email protected] |
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April 21st 2022- Opening Day at the Community House Garden
Opening Day at the Community Garden was filled with many joy-filled activities to help us connect with Mother Earth. Our staff, Bridget and Jessie, volunteers Mariah and Marissa, and so many of our amazing kindness ambassadors showed up to join in the fun.
We drank dandelion tea, planted potatoes and Dahlia roots, and even a peach tree.
We drank dandelion tea, planted potatoes and Dahlia roots, and even a peach tree.
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Everyone pitched in and we most definitely have some budding horticulturalists in our neighborhood!
Ed shows how it's done
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The hand-off
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That's the way to do it!
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"Can I go on break now?"
"We've got it covered!"
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Donations to the Community House Juice-a-Thon were collected this weekend from the Boley Farms, a local organic garden tended by horticulturist Jack Myrna. He donated more than 20 lbs of veggies to our cause of bringing healthy practices to our recovery house, and all those in our community wanting to experience a more healthy way of life. Recovery is hard, and often we can get comfort from food. Learning new healthy habits is a challenge, but part of living our best life. The Community House gives a huge thank you to Jack for his generous gift to our cause of a healthy body, healthy mind! 
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We are just getting started with our Community Garden, but thanks to our helpers at our Memorial Day event, we now have a total of five boxes with tomatoes, watermelon, lettuce and a few flowers.
Learning the joy of gardening, not to mention being able to provide healthy food for oneself and one's family, is part of our mission at the Community House--to support self-empowerment. Can we become empowered with the tools to be able to take care of ourselves and each other as we walk this journey of life? Here at the Community House, we believe in ourselves and our community!
If you have skills in gardening or other trades, come and join us!
Also follow our blog: Our Wonderful Edible World!
Learning the joy of gardening, not to mention being able to provide healthy food for oneself and one's family, is part of our mission at the Community House--to support self-empowerment. Can we become empowered with the tools to be able to take care of ourselves and each other as we walk this journey of life? Here at the Community House, we believe in ourselves and our community!
If you have skills in gardening or other trades, come and join us!
Also follow our blog: Our Wonderful Edible World!
