Bloom Lockport

♻️ Friendly Reminder: A bright yellow compost bin is located behind City Hall on 8th Street (free and open to the public to use). Bring your compost items anytime!

⭐ Want to take your composting efforts to the next level? Join The Urban Canopy Compost Club and enjoy the convenience of having a compost bin right at your home for a low monthly cost.

📲 Learn more about residential composting and the Compost Club here:
https://www.theurbancanopy.org/residential-composting

Free plant alert!!!

Lockport Horticulture has kindly put their extra plants outside for the community to browse and grab! They can be found at LTHS East Campus outside of door 20, which is the greenhouse around the back. There are some herbs and veggies left, along with a variety of other annuals and perennials!

(Please note, this does NOT include the pallet of soil that is also there - that is already claimed)

The students did an amazing job with these plants! A huge thank you to them and Ms. Martin for offering them to us!

The City, in collaboration with UpCycle Products, Inc., is excited to announce the return of the online rain barrel and composter sale! 🎉 But act fast—there's a limit of one subsidized rain barrel and one composter per household, and you must be a City of Lockport resident to qualify. 📲Place your order by June 1st at bit.ly/lockportsale

Bloom will be hanging out at the Route 66 native garden, just a few blocks south, during this awesome event! ♻️

🌎♻️ Recycle, Learn & Make a Difference! ♻️🌎

Join us for the Recycling Resource Fair on Saturday, May 16, 2026, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the parking lot at 201 W. 10th Street!

This fun and informative community event will bring together local organizations and vendors sharing helpful resources on recycling, waste reduction, and simple ways to live a little greener. 🌱

Have old clothing or housewares you no longer need? Simple Recycling will be on-site, collecting items for recycling.

📱Need to get rid of old electronics? Bring them with you! Electronic recycling will also be accepted by Public Works, with a limit of 2 TVs and 2 monitors per vehicle.

You can also bring your plastic bags to be collected by the Lockport Township High School Interact Club for recycling! ♻️

Stop by, visit the booths, ask questions, learn something new, and help make a positive impact right here in our community. 💚

📅 Saturday, May 16, 2026
⏰ 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
📍 201 W. 10th Street Parking Lot

We hope to see you there! ♻️🌎

Coming up this Wednesday (5/13/26) at the Illinois State Museum Lockport Gallery! Take your gardening AND sustainability skills up a notch! We hope to see you all there 🌱🪏

Reminder to anybody who is registered for a community garden plot, our informational meeting is TONIGHT! Stop by anytime between 5pm-7pm to ask any questions you may have, and select your plot on a first-come-first-serve basis!

Community Garden Informational Meeting
April 28, 2026, 5pm-7pm (open house style - stop in whenever you can!)
White Oak Library (Lockport), Meeting Room A

Send a message to learn more

All 16 raised beds are installed at the new community garden site! We’re so grateful for the amazing, supportive response from the community since announcing this project - registration was full within a matter of days!
Let’s get growing!!! 🌱🪏

Bloom Lockport and the Lockport Township Park District are the latest Will County community organizations to launch a community garden initiative, designed to help residents grow their own produce.

Winter check-in from the Route 66 Garden! 🪾

While some of these plants may look dead, they will be back to their vibrant selves within a few months. A few plants, like these serviceberries, are already forming buds! In the meantime, they’ve been providing shelter to local wildlife, like bugs and birds.

Many plants go dormant in the wintertime, slowing down their biological processes and surviving on the fuel they built up during the growing season. They produce their own “antifreeze” to avoid ice damage in their cells, and some types of seeds even require exposure to the cold to help time their germination just right! We’re so excited to see these dormant plants wake up over the coming months!

Bloom Lockport has been in our own winter dormancy as well, preparing for tons of new growth in 2026. We can’t wait to share everything we’re planning for this year, and we hope to see you blooming with us!