The CCGA Resources Committee received donated plant material that it wanted to pass along to community gardeners this last weekend, and it went off nicely, even with short notice. There were representatives from seventeen community gardens, and they picked up dahlia tubers, gladiolus bulbs, miscanthus…
The next CCGA Coordinating Meeting will be Tuesday, June 27th 2017 at 6:30pm at the Chicago Center for Green Technology CCGT at 445 N. Sacramento Blvd. and our focus will be reporting from our June 3rd membership retreat, the venue for the 2018 conference and…
It wasn’t hard to gauge the level of interest and commitment to gardening in Chicago Saturday, May 6, as representatives from about 105 community gardens from all over the city gathered for CCGA’s mostly veggie distribution. With over 6000 seedlings grown by the Resources Committee,…
The CCGA Education Committee is meeting Monday, May 22, at 6:30 pm at Feed, 2803 W. Chicago Ave. The minutes from the April meeting can be downloaded here. See you soon!
On a delightful, sunny morning, a day to open windows and let fresh air in, a welcome spring day after several days of rain, the GGCA Resources committee held its Annual Spring distribution April 8th. The morning began with a talk by Val Kehoe, Horticulture…
The CCGA Resources Committee has presented their annual report for 2016:
The University of Illinois Extension has just announced an Urban Ag training program being held on 12 consecutive Wednesdays from May 10th through July 26th from 5:30pm to 8:30pm. Location: the Children’s Farm at The Center, 12700 S. Southwest Highway, Palos Park, IL. Intended for…
The next CCGA Coordinating Meeting is Tuesday April 25th at 6:30 pm at the Chicago Center for Green Technology CCGT at 445 N. Sacramento Blvd. and our focus will be planning for our Membership retreat and a review of the recent annual CCGA conference. We’ll…
Join us on April 8 at 10:00am for the first CCGA plant distribution of the year. Following a short presentation, a nice assortment of spring annuals will be available including pansies, violas, linaria, calendula, cerinthe, anemones, and alyssum. These annuals are cold-hardy and will be…
A capacity crowd of ninety-one community gardeners and friends attended the Resource Committee’s morning workshop March 4 at the Center for Green Technology! Additional chairs were placed in the aisles on either side of the room and at the back of the room and still…