Our Mission: Greening Chicago's Communities

To cultivate and steward beautiful and accessible native plant sanctuaries in Chicago's underserved communities, restoring a sense of place, promoting healing, and empowering residents and organizations to become stewards of their natural environment.

Students and their teacher planting natives on a plot at George Washington High School in Chicago.

Conservation in Chicago

Open green spaces in urban areas are as important as state and national conservation areas, which are always threatened by development and resource extraction.

Plant plugs that students will be planting at a site at their school, George Washington High School in Chicago.

Fostering equity in access to green spaces

Studies on greenspaces are linked to healing and an increased sense of belonging and peace. We want to provide this to communities that live in neighborhoods that have been divested.

Preparing a site at a home in CHicago's southeast side for future restoration.