Ground we have walked.

Chicago, IL

Installing a memorial garden with faculty and administration for a beloved teacher at Malcolm X College.

Chicago, IL

A fruit orchard and gravel garden designed with the Historic Stone Temple Missionary Baptist Church Youth Green Team.

North Lawndale, Chicago, IL

An ongoing community collaboration with North Lawndale residents and renowned garden designers Piet Oudolf and Roy Diblik to design the historic Sears Sunken Garden. Renovation work begins in 2026.

West Side Chicago, IL

Teaching the North Lawndale Community Coordinating Council GROWSS Youth Council — Greening Open Space, Water, Soil, and Sustainability — on raised-bed gardens and cut-flower cultivation.

Barrington, IL

An educational conservation-grant project teaching students permaculture principles. Three classes designed gardens in groups, the winning design was installed around the greenhouse, and edible design competitions are now part of the school curriculum.

West Side Chicago, IL

This is an ongoing rehabilitation of a bioswale located outside of Legacy Charter School in Chicago. The area was primarily taken over by three native plants and unwanted plants. Homan Grown is adding diversity and more color to the plant palette.

Chicago, IL

Homan Grown was asked to restore and bring more diversity to the Lawndale Christian Health Center (LCHC) campus and four City of Chicago owned bioswales that LCHC oversees. Plants were chosen that were close to the original design, and yet also had more durability.

South Shore Chicago, IL

A private residential garden transformation in South Shore, documented by location and year only while preserving client privacy.

East Garfield Park, Chicago, IL

This is the beginning of a residential forest garden focused on providing habitat for wildlife. In temperate climates such as Chicago, a forest garden is made up of eight layers - Overstory, understory, shrub layer, herbaceous perennials, bulbs, groundcover, and vines.