Garden Planning & Seed Swap Event - Oak Park Library
This hands-on workshop is designed to help gardeners of all experience levels prepare for a successful and abundant growing season. Bring your extra seeds to swap!
Deep Roots Vegetable Gardening Event - Oak Park Library
This hands-on event features Deep Roots’ compost-based method, native plants, and simple “milk jug” winter sowing for bigger home harvests
Raised Bed Holiday Sale 2025
This holiday season, give a gift that lasts—fresh food, vibrant health, and joy right outside the kitchen door. A Deep Roots Project raised bed is more than a garden—it’s a living present that keeps on giving all year long.
Deep Roots Garden Party & Potluck
Gardeners, neighbors, friends—come celebrate community, good food, and beautiful soil. Drop by anytime, take a garden tour, and stay as long as you like. Everyone’s welcome!
Deep Roots Edible Garden Walk
A free self-guided tour of inspiring food gardens in Oak Park and River Forest.
Grow Your Own webinar on March 3 (Copy)
Join Deep Roots Project “Grow Your Own” movement. Learn how to grow your own food and join others while doing it. Register for our webinar on March 3 at 6pm that is sponsored by the Oak Park Library
Soil & Fertilizing Workshop
Healthy soil is the single most important factor in increasing the harvest and growing nutrient dense organic produce that keeps our families and community healthy.
In this free online workshop, learn about how to maintain healthy soil and best practices for fertilizing. Bring your questions for the Q&A at the end of the presentation!
Superfood Garden Summit (FREE VIRTUAL EVENT)
Sign up for the SUPERFOOD GARDEN SUMMIT
Nutrient Rich Foods With Ease
FREE Livestream event July 22-25
16 Garden Visionaries Help You Grow
Celebrate Nature, Gardening & Music
Please join Deep Roots on Friday, July 3, from 5 - 8 pm for informal live music played by friends and neighbors in Estelle Carol’s front yard food garden located at 323 S. East Ave, Oak Park.
Weekly Zoom Q&A
Join us for our very first weekly Q&A on Zoom. Bring your gardening questions or learn what issues other gardeners are facing. No need to RSVP. See you then!
Link to join Zoom meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84932592965
Meeting ID: 849 3259 2965
Tomato Growing Tips Webinar
FREE webinar on Thursday, May 28 at 6pm
Kurt Hansen will present a webinar for beginners and intermediate gardeners with a priority on first-time gardeners. He has tips for a bountiful harvest including soil, varieties, fertilizing, pruning, trellising, and harvesting. Tomatoes are "heavy feeders." Learn how to replenish the soil nutrients throughout the season.
FREE: First Time Food Gardeners Webinar, Wednesday, May 27, 11am - 1pm)
This webinar substitutes the 4th webinar in our original First-time Food Gardener webinar series that had been announced for this date.
SOLD OUT: First Time Edible Gardeners (Webinar Series: May 6, 13, 20, 27 - 11am)
EVENT SOLD OUT - SIGN UP OPEN FOR THE UPDATED WEBINAR HERE
Adding Natives to Edible Gardens (Webinar)
How to use native plants in your edible garden and landscaping to bring more beauty and health to your yard.
This event is online. You will receive a link via email to join the live webinar!
Preparing Your Garden for Spring
Even though the leaves are off the trees and there may be snow on the ground, gardening is still on our minds here at Deep Roots. In fact, now is the best time to be thinking about our gardens, as some things need to be planned long before the first plants poke up from the ground.
Join Deep Roots Project Sunday, February 23 for a free workshop at the Oak Park Main Library at 3pm in the first floor Community Room! We allowed extra time at the end to advise people who need help with their garden planning.
Edible Gardening Checklist for Success and Q&A
Deep Roots edible gardening methods in review
It’s time to share our lessons learned this edible gardening season (and previous seasons too). Bring your gardening questions, discoveries, successes, mistakes and experiences.
We will review the Deep Roots edible garden checklist for success.
Our goal is to make garden both fun and efficient. We are always thinking of new ways to save time and money. Many members of the Deep Roots community like to learn edible gardening by trying out new methods and tweaking old ones.
Bring your gardening stories and questions.
Showcase Edible Garden Tour & Potluck Dinner
In memory of Eco-Champion Sally Stovall
Deep Roots Project and Green Community Connections invite the community to see and taste the beauty of this showcase edible garden between 4 and 8 p.m. Sunday, July 21, at the home of Estelle Carol, 323 S. East Ave., Oak Park. Bringing a dish and/or beverage to share is not required but is greatly appreciated.
July 21 Schedule:
• 4 to 6 p.m. showcase garden tours + potluck appetizers
• 6 to 8 p.m. potluck dinner
• 7 p.m. sing along (songs to remember Sally chosen by her children)
This garden is dedicated to Sally Stovall, local eco-champion and co-founder of Green Community Connections, who died suddenly on May 21. To learn more about Sally's wide-ranging environmental work, go here.
RSVP here on EventBrite to help us anticipate attendance.
Get a sneak peek of the garden in this video.
Volunteers needed to help setup ice cold beverages, tables, and chairs in the back yard shade garden as well as greeters, tour guides, and cleanup crew. Contact lisa@greencommunityconnections.org.
Organic Pest Control Workshop
WHEN: Sunday, June 9, 2-4pm
WHERE: Oak Park Main Library (Community Room)
834 Lake St. Oak Park, IL 60301
Join us to learn many tips on how to prevent pest in your edible garden. Preventing garden pests is far easier (and more fun!) than dealing with pest outbreaks after they show up. Even some natural sprays can harm your soil and your plants. So creative, vigilant and knowledgeable prevention is best. If you fail at preventing pests, then learn from them.
Healthy Diet, Healthy Life Workshop
WHEN: Thursday, May 30. 7-9pm
WHERE: Oak Park Main Library (Community Room)
834 Lake St. Oak Park, IL 60301
A whole-foods, plant-based diet is a way of eating that celebrates plant foods and cuts out unhealthy items like added sugars and refined grains. Plant-based diets have been linked to a number of health benefits, including reducing your risk of heart disease, certain cancers, obesity, diabetes and cognitive decline.
Native & Edible Garden Design Workshop
WHEN: Sunday, May 26, 2-4pm
WHERE: Oak Park Main Library (Community Room)
834 Lake St. Oak Park, IL 60301
Presented by Kurt Hansen
Both native and edible plants are needed for a healthy ecology and improved food harvest. Including flowers and perennials as well increases the beauty of the whole landscape.This workshop will cover garden design with BOTH natives AND edibles. We want native gardeners to learn how to include edible plants. And we want edible gardeners to learn how to include native plants.
Oak Park Farmers Market Green Day #2
WHEN: Saturday May 25, 9am-1pm
WHERE: Pilgrim Church parking lot, 460 Lake St, Oak Park
Deep Roots will have a booth inside the Farmer market for the “Green Days” only. Check out our activities, workshops, store products and volunteer opportunities.
Oak Park Farmers Market Green Day #1
WHEN: Saturday May 18, 9am-1pm
WHERE: Pilgrim Church parking lot, 460 Lake St, Oak Park
Deep Roots will have a booth inside the Farmer market for the “Green Days” only. Check out our activities, workshops, store products and volunteer opportunities.
Healthy Soil, Healthy Plants Workshop
WHEN: Sunday, May 5, 2-4pm
WHERE: Oak Park Main Library (Community Room)
834 Lake St. Oak Park, IL 60301
Managing for soil health is one key step toward having a successful garden this summer. Avoiding compaction, covering with dense leaf mulch, applying organic matter, adding biochar, and keeping the soil covered are simple tips that will reap great rewards.
Earth Day
WHEN: Saturday, April 27 10am - 2pm
WHERE: Public Works Center
201 South Boulevard
Oak Park's celebration of green living returns with the Village's 10th annual Earth Fest. The family-friendly event takes place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 27 at the Public Works Center, 201 South Boulevard.
Lawn Care Workshop
WHEN: April 11, 7-8pm
WHERE: Ascension Church, 601 Van Buren, Oak Park
Presented by David Murphy, Director of Deep Roots Project
Natural Lawn Care Workshop
WHEN: April 7, 2-4pm
WHERE: Oak Park Main Library, Community Room
834 Lake Street Oak Park, IL 60301
Jeff Swano is our expert on beautiful toxic-free lawns and the owner of Dig Right In Landscaping. He has been leading the way in residential organic lawn care since 2005. Over the years, he has come to fully understand the science and techniques necessary to build and sustain healthy soil ecology.
Learn about the best practices for creating a non-toxic healthy beautiful lawn and yard from Jeff Swano at the next Deep Roots free workshop. Videos from past workshops will be coming soon to our website. Sign up for our newsletter to be notified when the next workshop will be offered.
Volunteer Gathering and Potluck Dinner
WHEN:
Saturday, March 30th
5:30pm - 7:30pm
WHERE:
Good Earth Greenhouse
7900 Madison Street
River Forest IL 60305
5:30 pm – Dinner and networking
6:30 pm – Presentation and discussion of Deep Roots volunteer opportunities
RSVP HERE. If you don’t RSVP come anyway.
MORE DETAILS HERE.
Seed Starting Workshop & Seed Swap
WHEN:
Sunday, March 24th
12:00pm - 2:00pm
WHERE:
Sugar Beet Co-op Building
Community Room
442 S. Grove Ave.
Optimum Raised Bed Gardening Soil
WHEN: March 23, 2 - 2:30 pm
WHERE: The Good Food Expo at the UIC Forum, 725 W. Roosevelt Rd, Chicago
Raised Bed and Container Gardening Workshop
WHEN:
Sunday, March 3rd
1:00pm - 3:00pm
WHERE:
Oak Park Public Main Library
834 Lake Street
First Floor - Community Engagement Space
Oak Park, IL 60304