The latest flower farm in Garfield Park will be the sixth that Southside Blooms has started in Chicago.
Vacant lots have long been eye sores in the city, but a local organization is trying to change that, recruiting help from volunteers to transform them.The initiative is bringing much-needed growth and opportunity to the Garfield Park neighborhood where one long overdue makeover took place.'Providing a pop of color this once void place that you've walked by a thousand times might trigger something,' said Ruben Nicolaescu, of Southside Blooms.
'They want to beautify space that is normally overlooked and, you know, underutilized,' Nicolaescu said.It will be the sixth urban flower farm for the nonprofit, where they first plant flowers, then after months of TLC, those flowers are brought to their shop and then sold.Southside Blooms lean on local youth at risk of gang and gun violence. The nonprofit provides them with a meaningful opportunity to learn, work. and grow.
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