Merchant Park Community Garden

We need to get our membership applications processed so we’ll have all our renewal fees in the bank before it’s time to start work on the garden this spring! You can print out the application and deliver it with a […]

When & Where: It’s been rescheduled from our last announcement:   Saturday, October 15 at 1:30pm At the garden! Who will be there: We were very lucky this last year to have Bruce Yeager to manage the layout and background construction planning that helped us get off to such an efficient start. Work commitments are taking most of [...]

Where is Merchant Park Community Garden? We’re building a community garden in the Irving Park neighborhood of Chicago. Our “park” is located in the empty land behind the alleys for Milwaukee, Addison, and Keeler, as seen in these pictures: Who’s behind this project? Many people in the neighborhood have been talking about doing…[Read more]

Meeting Summary At our third meeting on Thursday, December 16, we reviewed the last meeting’s tasks, updated new information, and determined what our next action items would be. To make faster progress, we split into two groups, one covering Plot Construction , Water, and Fencing and Maintenance , while the other group covered Operations, [Read more]

The purpose of the first meeting on October 5, 2010 was to see who was interested, answer a few questions, and see how we could get started with this new community project. Tonight’s meeting – November 11th, 2010 – let us really get down to work. We divided up into two groups and took different [...]

At our first community meeting and in conversations around the neighborhood, many people have had similar questions. As we get more answers and more questions come in, we’ll try to keep everyone updated here. How ma ny lots? The plans we decide on for the first year will depend on how many people are interested in gardening. The [...]