Our market is a small but vibrant community hub featuring local vendors offering ready-made food like tamales, iced coffee, agua frescas, local honey, hand made soaps, books for Spanish readers, and handcrafted goods. Vendors include: Yvolina’s Tamales, Anti-Conquista Coffee, Bee-utiful Honey, Giron Books, and more! Alongside these vendors, the garden’s own offerings — including a sliding‑scale U‑Pick program, limited quail eggs, and garden‑produced honey — create a uniquely local, land‑connected experience.
Running June 14 through October 4, the market takes place every Sunday from 10 AM to 2 PM in a thriving community garden set along an old rail corridor. The space is alive with pollinators, gardeners, families, and neighbors of all ages. Visitors wander through raised beds, an active apiary, quail coops, nature play areas for kids, a dog run, fitness spaces, and multiple gathering spots with benches and tables. The setting itself — buzzing with life — is part of the draw.
The market was created to highlight the garden’s broader programs, including stewardship initiatives and the U‑Pick program, which invites people to harvest seasonal produce and build a direct relationship with local food systems. Throughout the season, the market will host workshops, garden tours, and cultural activities in partnership with community organizations, educators, and artists.
Visitors are encouraged to bring their sunscreen and garden gloves to enjoy the market and also participate as volunteers. Whether tending beds, supporting pollinator habitats, or helping with community projects, volunteering becomes a natural extension of spending time in the space — strengthening shared stewardship and deepening community connection.
More than a place to shop, this market is a community‑rooted ecosystem. It nurtures local producers, supports environmental education, and invites neighbors to experience a more sustainable, joyful, and place‑based way of living.
August Calendar
Sunday, August 2nd | Design Your Own Green Space
Join us for a creative day at “Design Your Own Green Space” in Pilsen with PERRO’s Earth Art Project! 🌿✨ Collaborate with community members to create collages and dioramas envisioning a just climate future. Free and family-friendly, with light refreshments provided. Supplies like moss, cardboard, magazines, and more will be available. Let’s get creative together!
¡Únete a nosotros para una jornada creativa en el evento “Diseña tu propio espacio verde” en Pilsen con PERRO y su proyecto de Earth Art! 🌿✨ Colabora con miembros de la comunidad para crear collages y dioramas que imaginen un futuro climático justo. Es una actividad gratuita y apta para toda la familia; se ofrecerán refrigerios ligeros.
Habrá materiales disponibles, como musgo, cartón, revistas y más. ¡Demos rienda suelta a nuestra creatividad juntos!
Sunday, August 9th | Design Your Own Green Space & Herbalism Workshop
Join us for a creative day at “Design Your Own Green Space” in Pilsen! 🌿✨ Collaborate with community members to create collages and dioramas envisioning a just climate future. Free and family-friendly, with light refreshments provided. Supplies like moss, cardboard, magazines, and more will be available. Let’s get creative together!
¡Únete a nosotros para una jornada creativa en el evento “Diseña tu propio espacio verde” en Pilsen! 🌿✨ Colabora con miembros de la comunidad para crear collages y dioramas que imaginen un futuro climático justo. Es una actividad gratuita y apta para toda la familia; se ofrecerán refrigerios ligeros.
Habrá materiales disponibles, como musgo, cartón, revistas y más. ¡Demos rienda suelta a nuestra creatividad juntos!
Join Kari of Fuego Libre to learn about Spiritual Herbalism & Limpias with special guest Cristina Puzio, founder of Papalotzin. She will invite us to explore spiritual herbalism and curanderismo through the ancestral practice of limpias. After the workshop, take a walk through the garden or visit the U-Pick Farmstand to see what’s in season. Registration is required.
Acompaña a Kari de Fuego Libre para aprender sobre la herbolaria espiritual y limpias junto a su invitada especial Cristina Puzio, la fundadora de Papalotzin. Cristina nos invitará a explorar la herbolaria espiritual y el curanderismo a través de la práctica ancestral de las limpias. Después del taller, recorre el jardín o visita el puesto U-Pick para conocer lo que está en temporada. Se requiere registro.
Sunday, August 16th | Community Yoga Flow
Join Jessica Lainez for a 45-minute vinyasa, all-levels yoga flow promptly at 10 am. This event is BYO-mat, towel, or blocks. The option to practice yoga without a mat or towel is welcome.
August Theme: Balanced Chakra Yoga Flow. An intentional sequence designed to balance all of the chakras through asanas, breath, and chanting. By aligning and clearing the body’s seven main energy centers (or chakras)—which govern physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being—the practice seeks to restore inner harmony and relieve stress.
Acompaña a Jessica Lainez para una clase de yoga vinyasa de 45 minutos, abierta a todos los niveles. La clase comenzará puntualmente a las 10 a. m. Trae tu propio tapete, toalla o bloques. También puedes practicar sin tapete ni toalla.
Tema de agosto: Yoga para equilibrar los chakras. Esta secuencia está diseñada para equilibrar los chakras mediante posturas, ejercicios de respiración y cantos. Al armonizar los siete principales centros de energía del cuerpo, relacionados con el bienestar físico, emocional y espiritual, la práctica busca restaurar el equilibrio interior y aliviar el estrés.
Sunday, August 23rd | Xochikalli Community Danza & Family garden activity
Join our residency partners, Kalpulli Xinachtli Xochikalli, as we come together in movement, music, and community through danza.
Whether you are a longtime dancer, musician or joining us for the first time, you are welcome. Bring your good heart, and if you have them, your rattles or other danza pre-Hispanic instruments. You may also bring an offering for the altar. All are welcome. Sliding Scale donations on RSVP go to facilitators, Xochikalli community, or offering for the altar. Tlasohkamati!
Acompaña a nuestros colaboradores residentes, Kalpulli Xinachtli Xochikalli, para compartir un espacio de movimiento, música y comunidad a través de la danza.
Todas las personas son bienvenidas, ya sea que lleves años practicando danza, seas músico o sea tu primera vez. Ven con el corazón abierto y, si tienes, trae tus sonajas u otros instrumentos de danza prehispánica. También puedes traer una ofrenda para el altar. Las donaciones de escala móvil que se hagan al registrarse serán destinadas a quienes facilitan la actividad, a la comunidad de Xochikalli o como ofrenda para el altar. ¡Tlasohkamati!
Join Claire from Luna Luz Wellness for a mindful earth-art making session. Using natural and recycled materials, you’re invited to make your own sun catcher, DIY bee hotel, or bird feeder to take home. During this activity, Claire will guide you in connecting to your senses and cultivating mindfulness. This is a family friendly event. Come ready to get crafty!More details to come.
Acompaña a Claire de Luna Luz Wellness en una actividad de arte inspirada en la naturaleza. Con materiales naturales y reciclados, podrás crear un atrapasol, un pequeño refugio para abejas o un comedero para pájaros para llevar a casa. Durante la actividad, Claire te guiará para conectar con tus sentidos y estar presente en el momento. Esta actividad es para toda la familia.
Sunday, August 30th | Community Yoga Flow and Storytime Yoga
Join Jessica Lainez for a 45-minute vinyasa flow all-levels yoga flow promptly at 10 am. This event is BYO-mat, towel, or blocks. The option to practice yoga without a mat or towel is welcome.
August Theme: Balanced Chakra Yoga Flow. An intentional sequence designed to balance all of the chakras through asanas, breath, and chanting. By aligning and clearing the body’s seven main energy centers (or chakras)—which govern physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being—the practice seeks to restore inner harmony and relieve stress.
Acompaña a Jessica Lainez para una clase de yoga vinyasa de 45 minutos, abierta a todos los niveles. La clase comenzará puntualmente a las 10 a. m. Trae tu propio tapete, toalla o bloques. También puedes practicar sin tapete ni toalla.
Tema de agosto: Yoga para equilibrar los chakras. Esta secuencia está diseñada para equilibrar los chakras mediante posturas, ejercicios de respiración y cantos. Al armonizar los siete principales centros de energía del cuerpo, relacionados con el bienestar físico, emocional y espiritual, la práctica busca restaurar el equilibrio interior y aliviar el estrés.
Join Janeth Barrera for Storytime Yoga. This is for young children and their caretakers or parents.
Acompaña a Janeth Barrera en una sesión de yoga con cuentos para niñas y niños pequeños y quienes los cuidan.
Whether you stop by for an hour or spend the whole morning with us, we hope El Paseo’s Community Days become part of your summer. The garden is always changing, and every Sunday offers a chance to learn, support local vendors, volunteer, or enjoy a Chicago summer with your neighbors.
We’ll be back next month with another Community Days update.
See you in the garden.
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Vendors
Register to be in our Catalog of Vendors. Completing this registration adds you to our vendor catalog and allows our team to match you with upcoming opportunities.
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