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Grandma’s Garden

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

As reported by Heather Punke, Well Community: Chicago’s North Side

This is the first installment in a three-part series profiling community gardeners from the Peterson Garden Project.

The Javenkoski boys with Grandma’s watermelon
in a Chicago community garden
Photo credit: Laura Mathews, Punk Rock Gardens

It’s just a four-by-eight foot box of soil near Lawrence Avenue. But for Lincoln Square resident Jim Javenkoski, the raised bed garden is a memorial where he can think about his late mother Mary, who passed away in May following a brief but intense battle with cancer.

“Our garden is a place of comfort for me, at a time when I really need it,” Javenkoski said.

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