The Chicago Community Gardener Association’s Great Perennial Divide Saturday, September 27, 2014 WHAT: The Great Perennial Divide is a multi-site plant give-away open to all Chicago Community Gardens. There’s just one requirement: register your garden for the Divide no later than Tuesday, September 23rd to…
Our friends at ReBuilding Exchange are offering three handy gardening-related workshops this fall. Check them out below: Intro to Canning w/Pear Tree Preserves Chicago Bee Basics DIY Rain Barrel
The complete program for the 2014 ACGA conference in Chicago is now available. Time is running out to register for the conference.
We are hosting a perennial and flower giveaway on Friday, July 25th at Sherwood Peace Garden. Check it out at the CCCG Community Events calendar, where you can add your own garden’s events.
Kilbourn Park Organic Greenhouse is offering free tomato plants for Community Gardeners until they’re gone. Get ’em while the getting is good! 3501 N Kilbourn Tuesday – Saturday 10a-3pm Update Garfield Park Conservatory is also offering free tomato plants. Email quoted below: We have some…
KAM Isaiah Israel, one of the leading food donation congregations in Chicago, is offering free urban agriculture workshops for teens this summer. Download the Summer Program Flyer and Application and get growing! The program is free and open to high school students who are entering…
Eliza Fournier of Chicago Botanic Garden just appeared on WTTW to share some tips on splitting perennials, bulb care, timing planting, and other spring gardening issues. Spring Gardening Tips on WTTW
A great read about Chicago Rarities Orchard Project‘s Dave Snyder. Next month, after six years of working tirelessly to make the project happen, Snyder and CROP members will see Chicago break ground for the nation’s first rare varieties heritage orchard in the Logan Square neighborhood.…
Chicagoist has a great post about the Food Not Bombs Community Garden Project‘s work in transforming an abandoned police station in Pilsen: Taking a break from bringing over jugs of water filled from a house nearby, Eli Gonzalez, who grew up in Little Village and…
It’s finally spring, and now we can plant seeds and seedlings to make our gardens green and happy after a long, cold winter. It’s also a really good time as your perennials start coming up to dig them up and divide them. Why would you…