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  • Prescribed Burn This Weekend, Weather Permitting

    Spring is here. The garden is waking, and soon our regular work days will be back. As is our tradition, we will be starting the season with fire. Prescribed burns simulate the wild fires that were part of the natural ecosystem that historically existed in the Chicago area. They were used by Native Americans to…

  • Community Singing at the Garden

    Saturday Feb. 3, 1:00–2:00 p.m. Mark your calendars! All interested gardeners and neighbors are invited to a song circle at the Waters Garden fire pit next Saturday Feb. 3 from 1:00–2:00 p.m. We’ll get together to sing around the fire—led by Megan Eberhardt, who also leads a similar monthly event at the Old Town School—and…

  • Surprise January Garden Day!

    If you’ve been to the garden on a wet day, you may have noticed that the main path from Sunnyside to the school becomes a bit of a muddy lake. But a solution has arrived! We recently received a load of gravel, and with unseasonably warm and hopefully dry weather in the forecast for this…