2026 Inside & Outside The Garden
"Circulation Desk" at the RBVG
Member Jolene Hanchar has been hard at work collecting, cataloging, and storing seeds for distribution the new season. If you have seeds you'd like to share with the Garden, please bring them with you on Key Day. Jolene will there to distribute and collect seeds and talk more about the Seed Library.
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Next Spring, seeds will be available free to members and eventually we hope to share/trade them citywide with other community gardens!!
Pollinators Matter / The Lincoln Park Wildlife Group
The Lincoln Park Wildlife Group is once again conducting research in the RBVG, focusing on pollinators this season. We have an abundance of pollinators for the group to study. They will make two visits to the Garden to monitor and photograph the various types of pollinators not only in our designated speciality gardens, but also along the main pathways and on the borders of members' plots.
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A recent New York Times article reaffirmed why every garden needs to protect pollinators, something the RBVG has been committed to throughout its history. Currently, our Garden features six plots designated specifically as pollinator stations. These areas, along with the required flowered borders for members' plots and the main pathways, create a haven for bees and butterflies every season.
You can read the article, See How Butterflies Are Surviving or Not, in Your Area, in the March 6, 2025, edition of the NYT. A copy of it will be posted on the Garden's Information Board after May 1st. The article discusses the status of butterfly populations in the Chicago and feel pride in what our Garden has achieved and continues to do to protect these vital members of nature and the world safe.
