preSERVE Garden Upkeep

The preSERVE community garden project is a partnership between Slow Food Chicago, the North Lawndale Greening Committee, the Chicago Honey Co-Op, and NeighborSpace.

preSERVE was created in 2010 out of a desire to get more deeply involved in community gardening at a neighborhood level.  Since its creation, the preSERVE garden has continued to expand. The garden is home to fruit trees and bushes, composting, and an ever-expanding diversity of crops like sweet potatoes, black eyed peas, greens, heirloom tomatoes and more!

Each season, we harvest food like beans, blackberries, celery, collard greens, cucumbers, garlic, heirloom lettuce, heirloom peppers, jalapeno peppers, kale, onions, raspberries, rhubarb, strawberries, sweet potatoes and swiss chard. Many of the varieties grown in the preSERVE Garden are from Slow Food’s Ark of Taste, an international catalog of endangered and rare foods.