Evanston Garden Walk · 2736 Hartzell
A victory garden for the whole neighborhood.
Kona Farms is our home garden in Evanston, Illinois. Native plants, homegrown food, and a lot of learning by doing. We're glad you're here.
We started with a few raised beds and kept going.
We are not master gardeners. We are neighbors who got curious about what this Evanston lot could do, and then got a little obsessed. A deck came out. Beds went in. Native plants replaced a front yard full of overgrown yews. This site is our way of sharing what we know, what surprised us, and what we are still figuring out.
"I love to run around the neighborhood with a bin of produce in my arms, knocking on doors to give away goodies from my garden!"
— Heather Corallo, Kona Farms
From the beds to the neighbors' doorsteps
The food garden started as a sunnier-than-expected deck that got repurposed into four cedar raised beds. By August, squashes are tumbling into the grass and the sidewalk produce table is fully stocked. Heather starts everything from seed in late winter, and cool-season greens go into the ground in April.
Whatever the beds can't keep up with goes to the community fridge at Soul and Smoke. Nothing sits around for long.
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