UHC News
November 19th is the World Toilet Day!
Get ready to celebrate the sanitation that you have and help raise awareness that not everyone has access to a safe clean place to take care o their elimination needs. Happy Toilet Day! Don’t forget to eat your chocolate pudding covered brownies with a tall glass of lemonade!
Our 19th Birthday
We celebrated our 15th anniversary on August 2023 with a cook out — complete with all the outdoor activity essentials: cooking, a camp fire, and a movie
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.
Depaul Community Garden
We assisted a Depaul University group in building a community garden complete with a strip of pollinator plants, a variety of vegatables and herbs, and far too many kinds of peppers.
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!
For more projects, look to the Past Projects tab, follow us on social medias, or subscribe to our mailing list to hear about all our upcoming ventures.
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.
At the time of COVID-19, we want to help! If you are interested in engaging us to lead outdoor exclusive programs tailored to your group, please contact us using this form.
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