Openlands' Urban Greening program supports community- and school-based greening within the City of Chicago. It does this through four separate but interconnected programs:

1. Building Urban Gardens (BUGs)
2. Green Teacher Network
3. Neighborhood Open Space Planning
4. TreeKeepers

As part of these programs, several courses or workshops are offered to the public on a regular basis. The courses are: TreeKeepers (seven consecutive Saturdays in spring and in fall with graduate education credit approved for Aurora University); Green Teacher Network (includes four school-year workshops, two print newsletters and an interactive listserv); and Building Urban Gardens (BUGs), an eight-part course in organic gardening taught each winter/spring for community and backyard gardeners.

Click here for tools on how to start and maintain a community garden.

Periodic field trips are also offered to Special Green Places in the city several times each year for a nominal fee.