Chicago Botanic Garden

Education — Community Gardening

Cook County Sheriff's Boot Camp Program

In June 2009, with funding from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, the Chicago Botanic Garden and Cook County Boot Camp (CCBC) partnered to create a three-quarter-acre farm within the CCBC compound. The farm is one of the educational programs that serve inmates during their incarceration. Participants in the Boot Camp Garden grow, maintain, and learn about organic vegetable production. Vegetables are used in the mess hall and donated to local food pantries.

View the CCBC gardening program in progress at harvest in mid-autumn 2009, or at it's inception
in the videos below.

  


For additional information contact Angela Mason, director of community gardening,
at , or by calling (847) 835-6970.