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.
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.