Monarch Community Garden

Monarch Community Garden The Monarch Community Garden is a large community garden between the West Town and Humboldt Park neighborhoods in Chicago. Follow us on Twitter

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The Monarch Community Garden is a large community garden between the West Town and Humboldt Park neighborhoods in Chicago. The garden provides a place for local community members to grow fresh vegetables, be a way-station for migrating monarch butterflies and provide space for research sponsored by Northwestern University on the health effects of urban gardening. Sponsors:

The Monarc

h Community Garden is being created by The Geoponica Alliance Inc, with the support of local community organizations and sponsorship by Norwegian American Hospital and Northwestern University Department of Family and Community Medicine.

03/31/2026

Hello! If you would like to be added to our waitlist, please send us a message through messenger, that is the most efficient way for our recordkeeping. We currently have 20–30 names on the list already, but your name will be placed in the order received and left on our list indefinitely. We contact wait list members typically towards the end of April or early May when we know what our availability looks like. Thank you.

03/12/2024

Hello! We are accepting names for our waitlist but due to high demand and low turnover, it is highly unlikely that we will have openings this season for requests received this year. Names remain on our list indefinitely, we typically reach out in late April or May to our waitlist.
Thank you!

Hello! Please join us in the garden this Saturday May 6 for an open house at the garden. We’ll have activities for kids,...
05/04/2023

Hello! Please join us in the garden this Saturday May 6 for an open house at the garden. We’ll have activities for kids, our beekeeper will be there and we’ll have volunteers on hand to do tours and answer any questions. If you’ve ever had questions about the garden, or if you just want to stop by and say hello to your neighbors, we look forward to seeing you! 

04/14/2023

Hi all, due to an influx of waitlist requests, we’ll be closing the list again for 2023. We will likely open it back up on January 1, 2024, we will update when we know. There are currently over 40 people on the list with very little turnover this season. If you are currently on our waitlist, please do not email and ask if we have a plot available, we are still going through our current membership registration process and will notify waitlist members towards the end of April if we have an opening for you.
Thank you so much!

03/31/2023

Hello! If you’re inquiring about our waitlist, we currently have about 35 names on it and it’s unlikely we will reach your name at this point. We’re happy to add your name if you send a message with your contact info.

To those who have been waiting for a while, we are currently taking care of our current member enrollment and will be reaching out in the next several weeks. We go by date the request was received, if you don’t hear from us this season we hope we’ll have opening next year.

Thank you!

05/31/2022

Waitlist is back open! Send a message with your email address and we’ll add you to the list, and notify you when space opens up. Thanks!

04/12/2022

Hello! Due to a lengthy waitlist and very few plots opening up for this year, we’ve decided not to accept any more waitlist requests until January 1, 2023. Everyone that has already submitted a request has been added to the waitlist, and we will notify you when space opens up.
Thank you!

03/15/2022

Hello, our garden is likely full for the season. If you’d like to be added to the waitlist, please send a message with your email address. Thanks!

Together our Donations Team gathered 45lbs of organic produce for the food pantry at Humboldt Park Health Hospital! Than...
07/28/2021

Together our Donations Team gathered 45lbs of organic produce for the food pantry at Humboldt Park Health Hospital! Thanks to all our gardeners and volunteers ❤️

We were lucky to have AmeriCorps Project YES last Saturday for a day in the garden! What a wonderful way to kick off the...
05/14/2021

We were lucky to have AmeriCorps Project YES last Saturday for a day in the garden! What a wonderful way to kick off the gardening season

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1050 N California Avenue
Chicago, IL
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