LaManda Joy
Owner City Grange
LaManda Joy believes the world would be a better place with more gardeners in it and her personal motto is United We Blossom.
She is an author (Timber Press), national speaker, Illinois Extension Master gardener and founder/former executive director of the award winning nonprofit garden education program Peterson Garden Project in Chicago, Illinois.
LaManda opened the country's first education-based garden center in 2019. City Grange, a woman-owned social enterprise now has two locaitons (and more coming in 2022) in Chicago neighborhoods where they strive to provide organic, curated and plastic-free plant material and other carefully sourced gardening supplies while offering education every step of the way.
Recently, LaManda and her team (in collaboration with Garden Media Group) launched The Great Grow Along - an international virtual garden event designed to break boundaries that have confined in-person garden events in the past. Great Grow Along is expanding into content creation and distribution for partner IGCs and other garden-related retail.
Learn. Shop. Blossom .... Organic Kitchen Garden Collection @ City Grange
We believe the world will be a better place with more gardeners in it. We exist to remove any and all barriers (or as many as we can) to your gardening success. Don’t want to do it yourself? That’s ok. We offer full service landscaping, container design and interior plantscaping for your home or office. City Grange provides an authentic, rooted, friendly, functional and community-building experience - one that brings to life our whole-hearted belief that, United We Blossom. Our first location, in Lincoln Square, opened at 5500 N. Western Ave. in April of 2019. Our second location opened May, 2020 in the Beverly neighborhood of Chicago at 1818 W. 99th St.. We have our sights set on the Uptown/Buena Park and Portage Park neighborhoods for 2021. Like what we’re doing? We do, too. As a for-profit social enterprise, we have a team of investors who believe in our vision and are helping make it a reality with their funds and expertise. Sound like you? Send us a note and let’s talk. City Grange is here to help people experience for themselves how gardening can transform not just their personal lives, families, neighborhoods and cities, but the life of the planet as well.