Join us as maintain and steward build our gardens at the DuPage County Fairgrounds. We are looking for volunteers with weekly tasks that should finish in one hour or less! No experience necessary, but be ready to get your hands dirty. 

Please RSVP and specific address and meet up locations will be sent directly to you. Hope to see you there!

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Join us as maintain and steward build our gardens at the DuPage County Fairgrounds. We are looking for volunteers with weekly tasks that should finish in one hour or less! No experience necessary, but be ready to get your hands dirty. 

Please RSVP and specific address and meet up locations will be sent directly to you. Hope to see you there!

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Join us as maintain and steward build our gardens at the DuPage County Fairgrounds. We are looking for volunteers with weekly tasks that should finish in one hour or less! No experience necessary, but be ready to get your hands dirty. 

Please RSVP and specific address and meet up locations will be sent directly to you. Hope to see you there!

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Join us as maintain and steward build our gardens at the DuPage County Fairgrounds. We are looking for volunteers with weekly tasks that should finish in one hour or less! No experience necessary, but be ready to get your hands dirty. 

Please RSVP and specific address and meet up locations will be sent directly to you. Hope to see you there!

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Join us as maintain and steward build our gardens at the DuPage County Fairgrounds. We are looking for volunteers with weekly tasks that should finish in one hour or less! No experience necessary, but be ready to get your hands dirty. 

Please RSVP and specific address and meet up locations will be sent directly to you. Hope to see you there!

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The GardenWorks Project is proud to host a Community Garden Tour and Gardeners Panel. The in-person, outdoor event will provide a close-up tour of the DuPage Community Garden grounds, as well as discuss the importance of the community gardening movement within the region to secure food access and equity for all. A gardener panel will provide opportunities for questions, tips, and techniques, as well as ways to get more involved in the food growing movement.

The GardenWorks Project is proud to host a Food Growers Network event at the St. Charles Public Library. Canning and preserving your harvest is a practical way to extend your seasonal eating into winter. There are many different preservation techniques and many of these will be discussed. Join us for an important discussion on building resilience within the region through improved sustainability and greater health and wellness.

We invite you to join The GardenWorks Food Readers Book Club's fall gathering. We will discuss Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey into Regenerative Agriculture by Gabe Brown. 

In Dirt to Soil Gabe Brown tells the story of that amazing journey and offers a wealth of innovative solutions to restoring the soil by laying out and explaining his “five principles of soil health,” which are:

• Limited Disturbance
• Armor
• Diversity
• Living Roots
• Integrated Animals

The Brown’s Ranch model, developed over twenty years of experimentation and refinement, focuses on regenerating resources by continuously enhancing the living biology in the soil. Using regenerative agricultural principles, Brown’s Ranch has grown several inches of new topsoil in only twenty years!

Find out more and discover as a community different ways our western Chicagoland region can engage in this important topic of earth stewardship.

We invite you to join The GardenWorks Food Readers Book Club's summer community garden gathering. We will discuss Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan and enjoy a garden tour during your visit. Join us with this critically acclaimed, Scholastic Gold young adult novel, appropriate for ages 8 and up. The discussion will be appropriate for both adults and children. Available also in Spanish.

Esperanza thought she'd always live a privileged life on her family's ranch in Mexico. She'd always have fancy dresses, a beautiful home filled with servants, and Mama, Papa, and Abuelita to care for her. But a sudden tragedy forces Esperanza and Mama to flee to California and settle in a Mexican farm labor camp. Esperanza isn't ready for the hard work, financial struggles brought on by the Great Depression, or lack of acceptance she now faces. When Mama gets sick and a strike for better working conditions threatens to uproot their new life, Esperanza must find a way to rise above her difficult circumstances-because Mama's life, and her own, depend on it.