(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Chicago’s community gardens are opening up all over the city, but things are very different this year.
Montrose-Metra Community Gardens is a block-long line of vegetables and herbs just west of the UP North Line in Ravenswood.
Six of the 46 garden beds are volunteer plots that support three food pantries.
Garden Leader Kasey Eaves says planners thought they were all ready for this fourth season. And then came COVID-19.
“There was a question at one point in time whether we would open at all; whether it was something that we should do, whether it was something we even could do;
“Whether the shelter-at-home order would impact the capability of the community garden to open.”
But they are opening on Friday, with different rules: Bring your own tools and disinfect the lock on the gate regularly.
Gardeners with even-numbered plots come on even-numbered days. Odd numbered, on odd days.