Southside Blooms

10/19/2025

✨ Something magical is blooming at Southside Blooms! 🌸💫
Get ready for a holiday surprise filled with hope, beauty, and purpose. 🎄💐
Stay tuned — you won’t want to miss what’s coming next! 👀✨

10/18/2025

“More than just flowers — we’re growing futures. 🌱”

At Southside Blooms, every bouquet tells a story — one of hope, hard work, and transformation. 💐 From planting seeds in reclaimed lots to creating stunning arrangements, our youth are learning sustainable farming, floristry, and entrepreneurship along the way.

Each bloom supports something bigger:
✨ Green jobs for local youth
🌿 Cleaner, greener neighborhoods
💪 Empowered young changemakers

When you choose Southside Blooms, you’re not just buying flowers — you’re investing in the future of Chicago’s South Side. 💛

👉 Swipe through to see how our flowers create beauty and opportunity.
🌸 Shop or donate at southsideblooms.com

10/16/2025

✨ Holiday magic is in the air — something special is coming soon! 🎄💚

Our Southside Blooms youth are preparing to bring sustainable joy to your home this season. 🌿💫

Keep supporting us as we continue creating jobs for local youth and spreading cheer through every handmade creation. 🎁

Stay tuned!

10/14/2025

🌿 Southside Blooms is more than flowers — it’s a movement growing right here on the South Side of Chicago. 💐

We turn vacant lots into flower farms 🌸— giving youth the chance to learn, create, and dream big. What starts with a seed becomes so much more: confidence, purpose, and beauty that uplifts entire neighborhoods. 🌻

This is love in action. This is art that inspires. This is community reborn.
💚 Every bouquet tells a story — of resilience, hope, and transformation.

🎥 Watch the full video to see how we’re using creativity and sustainability to change lives:
👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3Y64TTtX8s&t=6s

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10/12/2025

🌻 Bouquet Feature: “Fall Favorite” 🍂

Say hello to cozy fall vibes! This vibrant mix of sunflowers, zinnias, and golden blooms brings warmth and cheer to any space — from your dining table to your desk. 💐✨

At Southside Blooms, every bouquet helps create jobs for local youth and turn vacant lots into flower farms on Chicago’s South Side. 🌿💛

Bring the season home — where every bloom tells a story of beauty and purpose. 🌻

07/15/2025

“In Our Nature” explores how environmental education – and the people who teach with it – can help heal some of our most pressing social, emotional, and political divides. E…

07/10/2025

Thank you University of Wisconsin-Madison for covering our co-founder Quilen Blackwell's story!

Quilen Blackwell draws on the Wisconsin Idea to turn vacant lots into flowers and then to turn flowers into an economic engine.

07/02/2025

Our farms are bursting with flowers!

06/26/2025

WTTW in Chicago covered our In Our Nature film premiere!

For years, Southside Blooms has been beautifying blocks one flower at a time. The new documentary “In Our Nature” digs into the nonprofit’s work and highlights environmental educators planting the seeds of meaningful change.

06/17/2025

06/16/2025

{A note from Hannah to Quilen on Father’s Day}

Quilen,
When I see how much our children adore you, and how they are flourishing because of your unwavering dedication to them, I know that choosing you to be their father was the best gift I could ever give them. In you they have a shining example of faith, strength, humility, purpose and love.

Your father’s heart extends well beyond our family, as I see you strive every day for the children of the hood. Thank you for all you to for us and for them, I am forever grateful 🫶🏻

Love, Hannah

{Happy Father’s Day to all of the dads and dad-figures out there making a big difference in kid’s lives! We appreciate you!}

04/14/2025

Have you checked out our bouquet subscriptions? This is our Empowering Blooms Club monthly bouquet for April, featuring our very own tulips, which Brian here from the farm team has helped to grow!