The Refuge Food Forest is a partnership between the University of Illinois Extension and The Town of Normal. The Refuge Food Forest is a plot of land that includes various produce. It is open to the public and anyone is allowed to take the fruits, vegetables, herbs, and nuts that grow.

The Gaia Movement USA - Chicago operates a garden community members to grow vegetables, herbs, and flowers.

Nobel Neighbors offers a community garden site at 4052 West Potomac Chicago, IL for children and adults.

Urban Growers Collective provides a public space that brings together community members through gardening. The season begins at the beginning of April and wraps up at the end of October.

Offers health education and case management to help families gain access to care to live a healthy lifestyle. Also offers public benefit application assistance and bilingual social work support. Exercise classes and community gardening are also offered for community members. Provides referrals to outside resources and COVID-19 financial application assistance.

Community Garden members each have their own plots. Members join together to help take care of common areas. Located on Highland Avenue, right across the street from Marie’s West pantry and main office.

Offers community gardening activities for people in the community. Provides opportunities for people to learn about planting and caring for a garden and offer samples of foods from the gardens. Also provides middle-school age youth with the opportunity to learn about the following: - Sustainable agricultural practices - Healthy food preparation - Nutritional eating habits and exercise

Empowers people to access healthy and sustainably grown foods and addresses the root causes of hunger: - Walnut Grove Vocational Farm: Provides horticultural, agricultural and life skills to individuals with developmental disabilities. For program information visit website. - Grow Mobile: A mobile food program to bring food to individuals with food insecurity. - Genoa Area Community Food Hub: A brick-and-mortar food pantry open either on Monday mornings or Tuesday evenings once per week. Pay As You're Able meals provide hot meals to anyone who wants them every other month. Visit the Hub's Facebook page for a full calendar. - Education: DCCG works with the DeKalb School District 428 on food education for the students.

The Urban Farm program cultivates an engaged community through educational and employment opportunities and access to fresh, local, and sustainably grown produce. Teens learn all the techniques central to growing food and maintaining an urban farm, customer service skills, nutrition and cooking knowledge, self-efficacy and responsibility, leadership, communication, and job skills. Students are paid a stipend through After School Matters.

Maxwell Street Community Garden offers community gardening plots that are farmed for vegetables and fresh produce to be shared with the neighborhood.

The Community Garden encourages people in the local community to become involved in our Urban Farm through volunteering and helping maintain communal plots.

Enlace works with community leaders to transform empty lots into community gardens. These spaces provide opportunities for healthy food production, safe outdoor recreation, community-based education and community building. They also serve as powerful models for sustainable practices and conservation, and they engage youth and families in environmental education through collaborations with key partners.

Maxwell Street Community Garden's gardening program offers paid gardening plots for community members to secure a raised bed garden with mulch and water from the nearby fire department.

Corazón Community Services provides restorative justice workshops, gang intervention/mediations, street violence response, court-mandated community service opportunities, and monthly gang tattoo removal.

University of Illinois Extension - Cook County - South Suburban operates a public space for community members to grow fruits, vegetables, herbs, and flowers.

The European American Association provides a public space that brings together community members to grow fruits, vegetables, herbs, and flowers.

Gary Comer Youth Center offers an urban agriculture program and a community rooftop garden where youth can learn about growing healthy food and how to cook and prepare it.

Garfield Park Community Council provides a community garden that produces local food.

Urban Growers Collective provides a public space that brings together community members through gardening. The season begins at the beginning of April and wraps up at the end of October.

Young Men's Educational Network's (YMEN) comprehensive programs offer a wide range of educational support, mentoring from positive role models, spiritual and emotional guidance, vocational classes in the arts, career-based and entrepreneurial education, sports and recreational activities, family supportive services, and service learning to more than 300 students annually.

A Just Harvest provides a public space that brings together community members to grow fruits, vegetables, and herbs.