Welcome to the West Side Nature Play Network!

We are dedicated to creating community-managed nature play gardens on the West Side of Chicago, so that every child is able to be in nature, every day. 
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The Network will collaborate with existing community-led gardens and create new individual nature play sites for West Side neighborhoods. We will also serve as a dynamic consortium that will train an inter-generational cohort of emerging garden leaders to steward garden sites and develop child-centered programs; and create and share best practices.​