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Inspiring You to Connect with Nature

Keeler Gardens offers a connection with nature to help build strong, healthy, interactive communities, and community members. Improve your knowledge of all aspects of nature, build your children’s foundational skills with a nature play space, encourage respect and reverence with native plants, foster communication with edible gardens, and at the same time reduce stress.

Let Keeler Gardens show you how connecting with nature can benefit you, your family, and your community.

Watch this interview with our founder Gina Iliopoulos to learn more about Keeler Gardens.


Improve Lives and
Strengthen Communities

Did you know studies show nature connectedness can promote social interactions in your community? Learn more about how nature connections improve our lives and communities.

Your community can take advantage of everything a nature space has to offer. Keeler Gardens is here to help you incorporate nature into your life and community.


Nature Spaces for All Communities

Keeler Gardens maintains a nature space on the northwest side of Chicago. We are in a residential neighborhood, open to the public every day, and home to an Illinois native pollinator habitat along with over 200 different species. We also share the space with our community cats and hosted beehives. All of this in an urban community, for the community. We created this space as an example of what inspired action can accomplish and how you can create a nature space in your community, too.


Spend Some Time in Nature
and With Us

Keeler Gardens is growing in support of local and extended communities. We offer internships through After School Matters, onsite opportunities to connect and participate, and volunteer projects and programs. Spend more time in nature, and take advantage of all the benefits it brings. Join us today!

Two interns, seen from slightly above, one bending down on the left side of the picture removing a shovelful of dirt, and one standing at the top right with only her legs visible holding a shovel, are digging a large hole to plant a rosebush next to an ornamental rock feature. The clay soil appears gray and chunky as the sun is beating down on the working interns. The soil appears gray and chunky, and the sun is beating down on the working interns.

Connecting with Nature