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Jill Johnson
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Community Organizing. Building. Growing. Cooking. Eating. Imbibing. Celebrating. Not necessarily in that order. Often simultaneously.
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Life is dark and depressing, and then I walk in the woods and remember that all of human history is a blink, and the other animals (the ones that survive, at least) will celebrate our extinction.
A buck looks over his shoulder at me, probably annoyed at my presence.
September 9, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Instagram post reading, "Chicago says no trump no troops. Date & time announcement. Ida B. Wells & Michigan. Saturday, Sept 6 at 5pm.
September 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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This evening at the garden, Miss Betty will teach us how to make our own herbal tea blends! She's focusing on herbs to support our health with cold and flu season approaching. Of course, everyone is always welcome at the Mindful Living Garden!
A flyer with a drawing showing a tea cup with bees buzzing about. The Heading reads, " Tea Time - Herbal tea making workshop & picnic." Smaller text at the bottom says, "Mindful Living Garden. 3323 N. Drake. Thursday, September 4. 6-8pm(ish)"
September 4, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Wow, this week's Mindful Living Garden happy hour was beyond amazing! Our theme was Cucumber, and everyone really stepped up, creating so many delicious things using this year's cucumber bumper crop. I'm so in love with the collaborative, mutually supportive community we've built at the garden.
A beautiful picnic spread on a blue table cloth in a garden. There's cucumber cake (with gin buttercream), cucumber bread, agua fresca, cucumber/watermelon/mint popsicles, crackers, and various cheeses (because there's always room on the table for cheese!). Because we're in the real world, there's also a citronella candle and can of mosquito repellant on the table. Later on, someone brought the most lovely cucumber salad, but I didn't get a photo of that.
August 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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This week's Community Garden Happy Hour theme is cucumber. My partner in crime, Miss Betty, is making agua fresca & 3 types of pickles, and i have 2 cucumber cakes in the oven. We're drowning in cukes from our gardens and are determined to use them all! ##UrbanGarden ##UrbsInHorto
Digital drawing in anime style : a young woman wearing ripped jeans and at shirt sits on a giant cucumber. That's right. She's in a park and casually using this giant cucumber as a park bench. The heading says Cucumber! The small print reads Mindful Living Garden 3323 N Drake. August 21, 6 to 8 pm (ish).
August 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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At this week's Community Garden Happy Hour we're celebrating basil with lemon basil mules and basil pesto spread on fresh baked bread. I can't wait!
Poster advertising the garden happy hour. There's a drawing inspired by 1960's advertisements that shows a woman in a yellow bikini lounging at the beach, using giant basil leaves as a beach blanket. The heading says "Basil" and smaller text reads "Mindful Living Garden 3323 N Drake. Thursday, August 14 6-8pm(ish).
August 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Mindful Living Community Garden update: This week's Community Dinners harvest was so huge, and we're celebrating during tonight's garden Happy Hour. This week's featured ingredient is Staghorn Sumac that I foraged while in Wisconsin, which we'll use to make truly unique Arnold Palmers.
A flyer for the Happy Hour. An art nouveau style drawing depicts a woman with long, flowing hair and deer antlers. She holds a Sumac stalk on one hand and a jar of red liquid in the other. The heading reads, "Staghorn Sumac," and smaller text says, "Mindful Living Community Garden. 3324 N Drake. Thursday, August 7. 6-8pm(ish)." Veggies on a rough hewn wooden table: chard, Kale, collards, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, Aleppo Chiles, a beet. A label reads, "08/06/25 8.5lbs."
August 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Garden update: the Passion flower is finally blooming! It looks like it came from outer space, but it's actually native!

#UrbanGarden #BloomScrolling #UrbsInHorto
A seriously crazy purple flower. There is a layer of wide purple petals, but then there's this layer on top of them composed of long, wavy, string-like pale lavender petals. The center has yellow reproductive structures that are outsized and kinda architectural looking, which contrasts with the delicate petals.
August 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Back from vacation and enjoying a busy garden day. First, the weekly Community Dinners harvest, then the garden Happy Hour!
Happy hour flyer, showing a woman in a monarch butterfly printed dress drinking a sparkling pink cocktail. The heading says Milkweed. Smaller text reads Mindful Living Garden 3323 N Drake. Thursday July 31 6-8pm. A big pile of greens, a few cukes, a beet, and a couple cherry tomatoes. Text reads, "07/31/25 5lbs."
July 31, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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This week's Mindful Living Community Garden donation to Community Dinners. I love this part of the season, when the harvests are a little bigger every week!
Spread on a rough hewn wooden table in the sunshine: Kale, collards, chard, beets, cucumbers, shiso, dill, lemon balm, and fennel fronds. Next to the pile of vegetation are a bucket full of tools, shears, and a scale. The photo is labeled, "7/10/25. 2.75lbs."
July 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Garden update: at least the flowers are enjoying this over-the-top summer heat.
#Bloomscrolling
#UrbsInHorto
Pink asiatic lilies Red poppies
July 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Tonight's garden happy hour will feature a French 77 inspired mocktail using homemade elderflower cordial and homemade n/a faux gin.
Digital drawing of a cocktail sha ker adorned with elderflower blossoms. Text reads, "Elderflower. Mindful Living Garden 3323 N Drake. Thursday July 3, 2025 6-8pm(ish). A glass pitcher. In it, elderflower blossoms and chunks of lemon and orange float in a copper colored liquid.
July 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Today's Mindful Living Garden donation to Community Dinners. While calling reps is important, there are so many things to can also do to immediately benefit your community. This pile of greens and veg will contribute to a salad feeding 120+ people!
July 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Bumblebee party! There's hundreds of them on the wild roses! Turn the sound up, and you can hear the soft buzzing of hundreds of bees bumblin'.
#UrbanGardening #UrbsInHorto #HomegrownNationalPark
June 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Milkweed check!
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Whorled milkweed: a globe of bright pink blossoms. The scent is so sweet! Butterfly weed: lower growing and bright Cheeto orange. Common milkweed: tall spires of foliage with blossoms attached like pale pink pompoms
June 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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This week's community garden happy hour could be our best yet! Guest bartender Nick Kokonas will preview the Belmont Tavern. Plus, I made this amazing service berry and rhubarb salsa that I can't wait to share!

#UrbanGardening #UrbsInHorto #DrinkYourGarden
A drawing depicts a variety of cocktail glasses on a table in a garden. Text reads, "Special Guest Happy Hour: Nick Kokonas. Enjoy the creations of award-winning bartender and author of the book 'Something & Tonic.' Get a preview of the new Belmont Tavern. Mindful Living Garden 3323 N. Drake. June 26 6-8 pm.
June 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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I just can't deal with the world today, so I'm staying inside with the bunnies.
June 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Finally saw one of these beauties in the wild
A flyer taped to a pole. The is designed to resemble those annoying ones for garage repairs that are always taped to garages around here. It reads: Hello ICE. Total chumps. Lonely nazis. Your sick job makes you trash! What ruined you? Can't find love? Is it worth it to ruin people? Chinga la migra. Chicago hates U. For fuhrer assistance call 1-773-EAT-CACA. The beautiful things in this city are not for you. No one asked for your "help" okay? Thnx bye. It's followed by information about ICIRR in Spanish and a phone number: 1-855-435-7693
June 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Stop kidnapping our neighbors! Join autonomous Chicagoans outside immigration court to monitor IVE presence & protect our neighbors from being abducted. Daily starting at 8am. 50 E Adams & 55 E Monroe.
June 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Hello, gorgeous! #BloomScrolling #UrbanGarden #UrbsInHorto
A deep purple, exceptionally frilly bearded iris. A white poppy in full bloom. The center of the blossom is a rich burgundy color with violet accents, which stands out dramatically against the frilly white petals. Next to it, another white poppy is about to bloom.
June 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Emergency Rally! At least 6 people have been kidnapped by ICE since Tuesday. ICE agents come every morning to the courthouse at Monroe and Wabash and abduct people. We won't let them! Friday the 13th, 8am. Show up at 50 E. Adams and 55 E Monroe (both sides of the immigration court building). Share widely! Only we can end this! Be autonomous, be sand; this is the gear
June 13, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Tonight at the Mindful Living Community Garden happy hour, we'll celebrate the strawberry moon with strawberry poblano margaritas and strawberry salsa!
Drawing: A young woman bites into a strawberry, smiling and with her eyes closed in pure bliss. She is framed by strawberry plants, and the moon halos her. A heading says "Strawberry Moon." Beneath the image, there is text reading "Mindful Living Garden 3323 N Drake, June 12, 2025, 6-8pm.
June 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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DEPORTATION /MIGRA WATCH GROUPS NEED YOUR ¡SUPPORT! RALLY IN SUPPORT OF OUR UNDOCUMENTED NEIGHBORS JUNE 10-TUESDAY-9:00AM CHICAGO IMMIGRATION COURT 55 E MONROE CHICAGO 60603
June 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Tonight's garden happy hour might just be the best one yet: strawberry & wild rose bramble cocktails and rose-infused white chocolate & pistachio blondies!
Drawing: A charming young woman wearing a pink flapper dress and with a pink rose in her hair smiles and looks over her shoulder at you while holding a martini glass full of pink roses. The image is framed by pink roses. A heading says Rose Bramble. Beneath the image is text: Mindful Living Garden 3323 N Drake. June 5, 2025 6-8pm.
June 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Tonight's bunny update - they're such adorably ravenous little beasties!
May 30, 2025 at 4:11 AM