Global Gardens Chicago

11/05/2024

🍂 It’s the season to pick your own! 🌿

Come on down to our first-ever Global Gardens U-Pick Produce Days! Pick your own fresh greens & root veggies for just $3, herbs for $2, or grab 6 bunches for only $12! 🥬🌱

Hurry before we close for the winter—this is your chance to stock up on local goodness and support our farmers! 🧑‍🌾

Link in bio to sign up for one of our U-Pick dates!

10/27/2024

Hi all, this is Haley the Director and I wanted to share some photos with you. I recently got into medium format film photography, and I like these captures of our farm. Captions in order of pics: 1) farmer Ma Than Aye from Burma after watering her garden; 2) Cambodian farmer Saroth and her friend at our Cambodian concert in September; 3) farmer Celestine from Burundi watering her garden; 4 & 5) Cambodian concert 6) longtime farm friend and customer, Matt Gold, holding a pumpkin 7) Celestine selling vegetables. She enjoys growing a mix of vegetables used in her country, American vegetable varieties, and also Asian varieties such as long beans, which she discovered from our Burmese farmers

10/25/2024

🎉 Exciting News from Our Farm! 🎉

Since 2012, we’ve been proudly known as the “Global Garden Refugee Training Farm,” but today we’re thrilled to announce a new chapter 🌱 We are now Global Gardens Chicago!

We want to recognize our neighboring community garden, which has historically been referred to as “Global Garden”, will now be known as the Albany Park Community Garden. Their focus is on providing space for anyone to grow their own plants, while our mission continues to be connecting refugee populations with the joys of gardening, enhancing food security, and creating income-earning opportunities. You can follow the volunteer-run community garden at

🌍✨With a name change comes a new website! Visit us at globalgardenschicago.org. We would like to give a shoutout to Women Unite! for refreshing our website and helping us navigate this transition, and to Sara Kopke for creating our very first official logo.

We’re excited for what’s ahead and can’t wait to continue our important work alongside our community.

Let’s grow together! 🌿💚

09/26/2024

📣 Urgent Call for Volunteers! 📣

We still need your help at Apple Fest on October 5th & 6th! 🍎 Your support will help us reach our goal of $5,000, which will be matched by one of our partners.

Anyone 13 and older can volunteer, so it’s the perfect opportunity to get the whole family involved and make a difference in the community! 💪

🔗 Link in bio to sign up – let’s make this event a huge success together! 🙌

Can’t volunteer? That’s okay! Share this post to help us spread the word and support GGC!

09/21/2024

Hi all, it’s Haley the Director and I’m excited to announce that I’ll be speaking on this panel for Chicago Humanities Festival with my dear friend Dr. Molly Doane. I worked with Molly in 2017 for a few years on a research project through UIC’s anthropology department and The Field Museum about how community gardens enhance the wellbeing of Chicagoans. I found Global Gardens through this project, and never left! This panel makes everything feel very full-circle-y, and I’m honored to be a part of it. You can buy tickets at the link in bio.

09/17/2024

We’re excited to share that we’re a part of the volunteer grant program! This means that if you sign up to volunteer at Apple Fest on October 5th or 6th, we’ll receive a donation for each hour you volunteer.

It’s simple: just fill out the volunteer application at the link in our bio and be sure to write in “Global Gardens Chicago” in the form so they count your hours towards our cause.

You’re welcome to sign up with family and friends too—the more, the merrier! Hope to see you there 🍎🤗🍏

09/14/2024

09/03/2024

Note from the Director! This is Haley, here to tell you how much fun we had at our annual farmers picnic and share some of my photos. It is one of my favorite days of the year. It’s a farmer-led cooking fest/potluck/gathering that has been a tradition for nearly a decade, and is a representation of how our farm is more than a farm; it’s a healing community space for so many folks. One of our new gardeners from Burma was excited to manage the frying station, where she spent hours frying many pieces of opo squash over a fire. Opo squash is a food loved by many ethnic groups from Burma, and the dish is literally deep fried opo squash pieces that are then dipped in a spicy sauce. The new farmer had rice flour dusted up to her elbow from mixing the tempura batter, and she smiled all evening as she fried away. Thanks also to our community coordinator for our gardeners from Burma, Yvette Myat Kyaw. The farm wouldn’t be what it is without her. She’s been here since the beginning (way before me!) Her deep knowledge of and involvement in the Burmese/Karen community is so valued. She helped organize the picnic and get the word out (have I mentioned she speaks multiple dialects of the Karen language as well as Burmese and English and probably other languages that I’m forgetting?!) I am grateful to work with such amazing people.

08/29/2024

Join us for our last cooking class of the season on Tuesday, September 24th at 6pm! We’re excited to welcome to the farm as they teach us how to ferment, pickle & can veggies! Each participant will take home two 16 oz jars. Sign up now at the link in our bio!

Cooking classes are sponsored by

08/20/2024

Thanks to everyone who came out to our cooking class yesterday! We made a tomato and plum salad with fish sauce. Special thanks to for leading the class and our board member, Rory, for helping to organize it. 🍽️

08/20/2024

Join us as we celebrate our last farm concert of the season featuring music by the National Cambodian Heritage Museum and Crossing Borders Music as a part of Night Out on the Parks sponsored by the Chicago Park District! This performance will be a special one because one of our farmers will be performing, so you won’t want to miss it!

Doors open and farmer-made food will be served at 4pm with music starting at 5pm. Seating is limited, so it’s encouraged to bring a chair if you need. Link in bio to RSVP!

Sponsored by

08/07/2024

Happy National Farmer’s Market Week! Come celebrate by visiting us at one of our weekly markets!

- Andersonville Farmers Market Wednesdays 3-7pm
- Lincoln Square Farmers Market Thursdays 3-7pm
- Horner Park Farmers Market Saturdays 9-1pm
-Portage Park Farmer's Market & Independence Park Farmers Market Chicago alternating Sundays 9am-1pm / 10am-2pm