851 N Milwaukee Ave (Mellody Farms)
🌿 Welcome to our little green oasis! 🌿 Tucked into the Mellody Shopping Center in Vernon Hills, our 40-pot garden brings food, creativity, and connection to the community—one plant at a time. 🌱✨
Company
Regency Centers Corporation
Pots
40
Biodiversity
Wildlife seen — 2026 season
The pollinators and pest-eaters our urban farmers have photographed on this farm.
2
kinds photographed here
Spider
Spiders hunt insects among the plants.
In a photo from 20 Aug 2026
Bumble bee
Bumble bees work in cool, grey weather, when other bees stay home.
In a photo from 9 Jul 2026
Example: a bumble bee in flight — recorded elsewhere.
Our urban farmers photograph this farm every week. A computer reads those photos and names only the wildlife it plainly recognises, so it misses far more than it finds. Our team corrects or removes anything it gets wrong.
Farm Feed
