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Roots Community Garden Roots Garden is a POC program for clients of the POC. This effort in Palatine IL. connects POC families in need to healthy foods and to their community.

As we bid a final farewell to the 2026 Garden season at Roots Garden, we want to thank everyone who came out Tuesday nig...
10/14/2026

As we bid a final farewell to the 2026 Garden season at Roots Garden, we want to thank everyone who came out Tuesday night to help with clearing out the garden. It's been an amazing summer with all of you and we hope you all come back and join us again in 2027!

10/13/2026

Gmorning!

We’re inviting all families to come out and harvest whatever they’d like from the garden! With the growing season coming to an end, we expect most of what’s left won’t survive the weekend, so please take as much as you’d like!

Here’s what’s still growing:

Marigolds
Peppers
Tomatoes
Beets
Radishes
Cilantro

Kevin will be at the garden from approximately 5:30–6:30PM.

Families are encouraged to bring their own bags, boxes, containers, planters, or anything else they can use to collect their harvest. I’ll try to have some bags available as well.

If you’re preparing for Día de los Mu***os, feel free to take some marigolds for your celebrations.

Good morning!The weather is looking great this week, so we’re planning to spend some time at the garden!Join Kevin Price...
10/05/2026

Good morning!

The weather is looking great this week, so we’re planning to spend some time at the garden!

Join Kevin Price tomorrow, 10/6, from 5:30–6:30PM at the garden. Feel free to stop by to see one another, harvest what’s ready, and help begin our garden clean-up.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Thank you to everyone for joining us at the Roots Garden's Appreciation night.  As this marks the end of our official su...
09/11/2026

Thank you to everyone for joining us at the Roots Garden's Appreciation night. As this marks the end of our official summer calendar together at Roots Garden, we want to again thank all of the parents, the children, and the community partners who helped make our 2026 season a success. We celebrated the end of our time together by painting a Peace Pole that will be set up and installed in one of our garden beds for the 2027 season so that we'll all have a reminder of the people who made this year possible. We also saw a lot of creativity come out with our photo frame decoration craft with photos from the summer being put into the frames. And everyone got to take home a little treat from the garden too! (Homemade tomato sauce, pickles, and various crops from tonight's harvest).

Thank you to Seth Moland-Kovash for coming to speak tonight to our families and thank them for their hard work all summer. A huge thank you to Laura, Araceli and Lina for everything they did this summer-- from watering our crops during times of drought, setting up art projects or games for the children, or harvesting the crops and sharing with all of the parents and children. Much thanks also to Kelli for her help all summer with setting up some of our family night activities and for being a consistent presence each week at the garden site. And last but not least - a final thank you to each of you who made this garden a special place for the summer. When I think back to my planning meeting with POC staff at the beginning of the year and remember what I wanted the goal for this summer to be, I truly feel we accomplished our goal to create a safe and fun space for the children and families of the community to come together and to learn a thing or two about nature and gardening. While we may at times have grown frustrated with mother nature (the smokey days, the droughts, the heat, the rain storms for several days in a row), and we may at times had been frustrated with an animal eating our crops-- we all persevered and never gave up on the garden space. Thank you to all of you for coming back all summer long and for making this such a beautiful place to spend the summer nights.
Respectfully, Kevin Price

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Gracias a todos por acompañarnos en la Noche de Agradecimiento de Roots Garden. Ya que esto marca el final de nuestro calendario oficial de verano juntos en Roots Garden, queremos agradecer nuevamente a todos los padres, a los niños y a los socios comunitarios que ayudaron a hacer de nuestra temporada 2026 un éxito.
Celebramos el final de nuestro tiempo juntos pintando un Poste de la Paz que se colocará e instalará en una de nuestras camas de cultivo para la temporada 2027, de modo que todos tengamos un recordatorio de las personas que hicieron posible este año. También vimos mucha creatividad con nuestra manualidad de decoración de portarretratos, en los cuales se colocaron fotos del verano. ¡Y todos pudieron llevarse a casa un pequeño obsequio del jardín también! (Salsa de tomate casera, pepinillos y varias cosechas de la recolección de esta noche).
Gracias a Seth Moland-Kovash por venir a hablar esta noche con nuestras familias y agradecerles por su arduo trabajo durante todo el verano. Un enorme agradecimiento a Laura, Araceli y Lina por todo lo que hicieron este verano: desde regar nuestros cultivos en tiempos de sequía, organizar proyectos de arte o juegos para los niños, hasta cosechar los cultivos y compartirlos con todos los padres y niños. Muchas gracias también a Kelli por su ayuda todo el verano con la organización de algunas de nuestras actividades de la noche familiar y por ser una presencia constante cada semana en el sitio del jardín.
Y por último, pero no menos importante, un agradecimiento final a cada uno de ustedes que hizo de este jardín un lugar especial para el verano. Cuando recuerdo mi reunión de planificación con el personal de POC a principios de año y pienso en lo que quería que fuera la meta para este verano, realmente siento que logramos nuestro objetivo de crear un espacio seguro y divertido para que los niños y las familias de la comunidad se reunieran y aprendieran una que otra cosa sobre la naturaleza y la jardinería.
Aunque a veces nos hayamos sentido frustrados con la madre naturaleza (los días de humo, las sequías, el calor, las tormentas de lluvia durante varios días seguidos), y a veces nos hayamos frustrado con algún animal que se comía nuestros cultivos, todos perseveramos y nunca nos rendimos con el espacio del jardín. Gracias a todos ustedes por regresar durante todo el verano y por hacer de este un lugar tan hermoso para pasar las noches de verano.
Respetuosamente,
Kevin Price

Stop by tonight from 5-7PM. See you then!
09/10/2026

Stop by tonight from 5-7PM. See you then!

Don't forget to join us this Thursday from 5-7PM at Roots Garden. We look forward to closing out the season with all of you!

Don't forget to join us this Thursday from 5-7PM at Roots Garden. We look forward to closing out the season with all of ...
09/09/2026

Don't forget to join us this Thursday from 5-7PM at Roots Garden. We look forward to closing out the season with all of you!

09/03/2026

It will be a warm one tonight but we'll be at the garden from 5-6PM. Kevin will not be there but Kelli will be on-site for those who join!

Be sure to dress for the warm weather and bring water!

See you this evening!

08/31/2026

The garden will be closed this evening due to forecasted weather. We will re-open on Thursday pending weather.

No garden 9/7 : LABOR DAY
September 10: Garden Appreciation Night 5-7PM

08/27/2026

The garden is open tonight at 5PM! See you then!

Happy Monday!We will be open tonight from 5-7PM. Staff will be distributing kites this evening for kids, so please stop ...
08/24/2026

Happy Monday!

We will be open tonight from 5-7PM. Staff will be distributing kites this evening for kids, so please stop by to get one!

Also, please SAVE THE DATE for our upcoming garden appreciation night! We hope to see you there.

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2195 N. Hicks Road
Palatine, IL
60074

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