Greenhouse Garden

Greenhouse Garden The community rallied around the effort and not long after, Greenhouse Garden officially belonged to the neighborhood.

🌻 A NeighborSpace-protected community garden in the Ukrainian Village neighborhood, open to all. 🌻
If you wish to volunteer at the garden, email us for the monthly workday schedule One of the distinguishing characteristics of the Greenhouse Garden is that it lacks any sort of fence or barrier around its perimeter, giving the message that the garden is open to anyone who wishes to enjoy its refuge.

It is a fitting testament to the garden’s origins. “About 20 years ago the lot was basically a garage – neighbors parked and repaired their cars there,” says community leader James (JW) Glass. “The City owned it, then one day they installed some railroad ties around the perimeter to keep the cars out. Once the cars were gone some unknown neighbor ventured out there and planted some tomatoes and tended them in the weeds and trash.” The efforts of that unknown individual eventually evolved into a neighborhood-wide endeavor to clean up the lot and establish a “real” community garden, open to anyone. NeighborSpace became involved in 1998 when the City put the lot up for sale and an alert neighbor saw the listing and contacted the organization about purchasing the land. The garden is as diverse as the West Town residents who gather every Sunday afternoon to work in it – literally every available space is occupied by something growing, from vegetables and fruit trees and bushes to flowers, herbs and towering prairie grasses.

Another successful garden workday featuring Felix the cat!🐈‍⬛🪏🪴
07/14/2025

Another successful garden workday featuring Felix the cat!🐈‍⬛🪏🪴

Orange ya glad it’s summer! We’re seeing lots of orange blooms this month in the garden🧡🍊🥕 what’s your favorite orange h...
07/08/2025

Orange ya glad it’s summer! We’re seeing lots of orange blooms this month in the garden🧡🍊🥕 what’s your favorite orange hue you’ve spotted??

We’ve received so many requests for garden onesies and pet bandannas! We’re happy to announce that these are officially ...
07/03/2025

We’ve received so many requests for garden onesies and pet bandannas! We’re happy to announce that these are officially available on the greenhouse garden bonfire site! Order one for your baby bean or a furry friend!👶🏻🐶🐱

🌻 A NeighborSpace-protected community garden in the Ukrainian Village neighborhood, open to all. 🌻

Summer is here and it’s black raspberry season at the garden!!😋 Stop by to enjoy a handful before they’re gone!!
06/30/2025

Summer is here and it’s black raspberry season at the garden!!😋 Stop by to enjoy a handful before they’re gone!!

Thank you JW for leading our summer fruit tree pruning and training last night at the garden!!🌳🍎🍐
06/27/2025

Thank you JW for leading our summer fruit tree pruning and training last night at the garden!!🌳🍎🍐

GOOSE WHOS BACK🔙🪿While our missing goose signs didn’t return our original garden goose, Larry, a very generous neighbor ...
06/25/2025

GOOSE WHOS BACK🔙🪿

While our missing goose signs didn’t return our original garden goose, Larry, a very generous neighbor donated a new goose to take their place. We feel so lucky to have such wonderful people in the neighborhood♥️ Stop by the garden to meet our new goose!

We are sad to report that our Garden Goose mascot was stolen this morning. If you have enjoyed Garden Goose on your walk...
06/16/2025

We are sad to report that our Garden Goose mascot was stolen this morning.

If you have enjoyed Garden Goose on your walks around the neighborhood, please consider supporting the garden's GoFundMe & our efforts to keep it the community oasis it is as well as replacing Garden Goose. Thank you for your generosity.

https://gofund.me/dcc37921

Hello Friends & Neighbors! Are you a friend in the neighborho… Siri Michel needs your support for Support our Community Oasis - Greenhouse Garden 2025

03/25/2025

Spring has sprung🌷 and so has our 2025 garden GoFundMe!! If you’re a friend of the garden, please consider donating: https://gofund.me/65ee9a64. Your contribution goes directly to our account at NeighborSpace and is tax deductible!! 🪴🧑🏾‍🌾 🥕

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03/01/2025

Join us tomorrow at 1PM at the garden for our winter fruit tree & vine pruning!

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Spooky and successful garden workday today!👻 Thanks to all the gardeners who came out to put the garden to bed for the s...
10/26/2024

Spooky and successful garden workday today!👻 Thanks to all the gardeners who came out to put the garden to bed for the season!

10/24/2024

Edit: after having our wood chips person check out the wood chips pile and speaking to a couple experts, it is most likely that what people are thinking is smoke is actually steam coming off the pile as decomposition of organic materials such as wood chips creates heat. With the temperature difference between day & night, this steam could be easily interpreted as smoke. Don't worry though, we are doing to continue to monitor & investigate.

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Yes, we know that the fire department has been called 2x regarding the wood chips. We are working on figuring out a solution.

We've had wood chips delivered many times over the past 20+ years of the garden and have never had this problem before so it is a little scary!

At the very least, our fall work day is this Saturday 10/26 when we will use the wood chips in the garden. That being said, we don't want to endanger the community so will follow the advice of our parent organization on what to do.

A big thank you to all of our wonderful neighbors for keeping an eye on things and reaching out to us. We appreciate you!

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OH MY GOURD!!🎃 The fall 2024 put the garden to bed work day will be THIS SATURDAY, October 26th from 10am until we’re do...
10/24/2024

OH MY GOURD!!🎃 The fall 2024 put the garden to bed work day will be THIS SATURDAY, October 26th from 10am until we’re done! SEE YOU THERE!!🍂

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