UHC News
YIMBY - Yes In My BackYard - We’re looking for a few good yards….
May 2025 Urban Habitat Chicago is looking for candidates that would be interested in transforming their backyard into a productive space that demonstrates urban agriculture, material re-use/recycling and green infrastructure. Stay tuned…..
Our 20th Birthday!!!!
We celebrated our 20th anniversary in August 2024 with a cook out — with extraordinary chefs - and fun! Two decades of work with amazing people
Bloomingdale Trail(Er)
We worked with Omni Ecosystems, Perkins + Will, Friends of the Bloomingdale Trail, and Bike a Bee to build a cart for selling honey produced on the Bloomingdale Trail.
Bloc’s blox made from the block!
With biofiber-reinforced concrete fresh in the mind, UHC has a plan. UHC decided to create biofiber-reinforced concrete blocks to facilitate the installation of planter boxes for The Bloc Chicago, a nonprofit that works with Chicago’s youth. This is UHC’s first iteration of the Blox. From the bottom, you can see the organic material UHC used to create their Blox. The Lamb’s Quarter is pounded into a fiber and spread throughout the concrete mix while the long Phragmites rest in the middle of the concrete, acting similarly to rebar and providing tensile strength to the Blox. Not only are plants used in the concrete mix, but other reclaimed materials from the block, like scratch-off lottery tickets and shredded plastic, are used too!
CATFISH SPAWNING UNITS IN THE CHICAGO RIVER
there are now more places for our catfish friends to find shelter and lay eggs ! Learn more
So many more Projects!
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What we do:
We teach, design, and implement environmental techniques in organic agriculture, water management, restorative landscape technologies and sustainable design, and food producing green roofs, for schools and community groups in Chicago. We have a particular interest in areas such as urban agriculture, green infrastructure, and material re-use/recycling.
UHC enables citizens to make direct environmental and social change. We provide “hands-on” training in environmental issues and urban agriculture through school programs, youth and adult workshops, internships, volunteer days and presentations at our teaching farm and other sites.
Contact Us
If you are interested in joining our work sessions, or would like us to be involved in your community, send us a message here.
Or, contact us by mail:
Urban Habitat Chicago
5038 N. Lincoln Ave
Chicago, IL 60625
(mailing address only)
How you can help
We need you in order to help make our region a better environment. From workshops and special presentations to advocacy of urban agriculture, green roofs, materials reuse, and deconstruction, UHC makes a difference by doing real projects. UHC is a 501c3 tax-exempt organization and all contributions are tax-deductible.
For additional questions, you may contact us at donate@urbanhabitatchicago.org