When Natasha Coleman was a freshman in high school, her sister connected her to the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Windy City Harvest Youth Farm program. The experience would change her life.

Everyone faces stress and setbacks in life but living in a healthy environment within a strong community can make it easier to cope and thrive.

As an unusual school year ends and uncertainty remains about the one ahead, school gardens offer opportunity for healing and emotional connection on the long path to recovery.