The Healing Garden for veterans
The GHV Healing Garden is an outdoor garden in North Chicago where veterans, active-duty service members and neighbors grow food side by side. It pairs permaculture with peer support and wellness education, and the harvest goes to local food pantries.
Your first Saturday
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Pick a Saturday
Garden sessions run Saturdays from 10am to 2pm. Special dates go up on the events calendar.
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Find the garden
We are on the Rosalind Franklin University Health Clinic grounds at 3471 N. Green Bay Road, North Chicago.
Directions to the garden3
Say hello first
Call (312) 404-1907 or email info@growinghealthyveterans.org before your first visit so we know to expect you.
What a garden day holds
Peer support
Garden beside other veterans, active-duty service members and neighbors. Shared work outdoors builds the connection and purpose GHV was founded to offer.
Growing skills
Build raised beds, prepare soil, plant, weed and prune. Veterans learn horticulture, permaculture and sustainable growing by doing it.
Wellness education
Learning about food, health and wellbeing is part of the program, alongside mindfulness, fresh air and hands-on work.
Harvest for food pantries
What the garden grows is donated to local food pantries in the community.
A voice for local food
Veterans become ambassadors for community food networks, sustainable agriculture and food sovereignty in Lake County.
Questions veterans ask
If you are in crisis
The Veterans Crisis Line is free, confidential and open 24/7.
See you in the garden
Questions before your first visit are welcome. Call, email, or reach us through the Contact page.
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