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Gardens at Misericordia enrich residents’ lives

The gardens outside the residential homes on Misericordia’s North Side campus are more than just pretty spaces. They are places where residents can grow their own fruits and vegetables, can explore nature through their senses, can do yoga or therapy and more.

Field Museum staff help parish promote native life, plants in garden

Sections of the Our Lady of the Snows Parish campus, 4810 S. Leamington Ave., have been transformed this year with the addition of more than 1,600 native plants selected especially to attract and support pollinators such as butterflies and bees.

Quinn Center garden project inspires community collaboration

You can’t plant a garden without getting your hands dirty. Dozens of volunteers did just that May 22 at the Quinn Center of St. Eulalia Church. They dug out weeds, planted flowers, herbs and vegetables and took time for Zumba and yoga as part of the “Cultivate Quinn” event.

Archdiocese encourages parishes to plant Laudato Si’ gardens

Ascension Parish in Oak Park for years has been home to a community garden that, in cooperation with other gardeners from the parish, donates more than a ton of food to the pantry at St. Martin de Porres Parish in the Austin neighborhood.

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