LINCOLN SQUARE — If you're convinced you'd have a green thumb, if only you had a patch of green to garden, today's your lucky day.
Registration is now open for membership in Peterson Garden Project, which operates seven pop-up community gardens on the North Side. No gardening experience is necessary. Click here to sign up.
Membership costs $85 and includes a 4-foot-by-8-foot plot, as well as access to educational resources and special events. Plots will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis. Returning gardeners have already claimed their plots.
The gardens are solely for growing food, not flowers, and the emphasis is on organic methods.
Each garden devotes 5 percent of its space to Grow 2 Give beds — harvested produce is donated to food pantry partners and nutrition programs.
Peterson Garden Project's gardens:
• Ashlandia, Ashland and Hollywood
• Global Garden, Lawrence and Sacramento
• Hello! Howard, Howard and Ashland
• Land on Lincoln, Lincoln and Sacramento
• NEIU Ground, campus of Northeastern Illinois University
• Swedish Covenant Hospital Garden, Carmen and California
• Vedgewater, Broadway and Rosemont
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