If you visit an urban garden in Chicago — or if you get your produce from one — chances are Gregory Bratton helped establish it.
South Side gardener Gregory Bratton, seen Aug. 24, 2022, helped create 100 urban gardens across the city. Now, he is again facing cancer and needs help with some of his gardens.
It’s his fifth fight with cancer since 1999, he says in between frequent coughs, but “this time, it’s something different.”At the quiet intersection of East 75th Street and South St. Lawrence Avenue, the Pause for Peace community garden — like many of Bratton’s gardens — is a colorful oasis in between concrete buildings, an empty lot where Bratton spread soil and planted grass.
Bratton is seeking to preserve the Trayvon Martin Community Everlasting Garden and the Laquan McDonald Community Garden at East 85th Street and South Escanaba Avenue by putting a 6-foot fence around the gardens, at a cost of about $1,100, and preparing them for the winter, he said. Bratton has started four gardens this summer that also need volunteers, the newest being Pause for Peace. The other three are the St. Lawrence Community Garden at East 67th Street and South St. Lawrence Avenue, the Girls Like Me Community Garden at East 49th Street and South Indiana Avenue and the African Garden at East 76th Street and South Saginaw Avenue.
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