According to Windy City Harvest our growing season here is 204 days long and to help get things going our CCGA Resources Team grew 8000 vegetable starts, herbs, and ornamentals in its two greenhouses which were distributed to over 100 community gardens on Saturday May…
Pesticide Residue in Food Well, here’s news about good reasons to grow our own food. By now just about everyone has been convinced of the important health benefits of eating leafy, green vegetables and adding fiber to our diets. We know these veggies reduce the…
Sunday, December 3, 2017, close to 1,500 like-minded folks from more than 70 partner organizations and sponsors across the Chicago region attended a Climate Forum at the Field Museum right up against the bones of ‘Sue’, the largest, best-preserved, world-famous fossil and most complete Tyrannosaurus…
Congratulations to all the 2017 Chicago Excellence in Gardening Award (CEGA) winners! Here is the Hermitage Street Garden displaying their 2017 CEGA award sign! You can view photos of other gardens displaying their new CEGA signs HERE. Special thanks go out to the CEGA sponsors:…
The next CCGA Coordinating Meeting is Monday November 27th at 6:00pm at the Chicago Center for Green Technology CCGT at 445 N. Sacramento Blvd. The main item agenda is planning for the 2018 conference. We will meet on the 2nd floor and there is parking…
COMPOSTING IN PUBLIC SPACES – Sharing What We’ve Learned NeighborSpace garden leaders and stakeholders, in partnership with sponsor Hills Brothers Coffee, are hosting two free hands-on community composting education days. Community gardeners and community composters are invited to join us by registering for this free…
In a month or so frost will be biting at our herbs and vegetables that are not cold hardy, and many gardeners will be ready to catch their breath again, but greenhouse prep has already begun. It’s time to shelter ornamentals and start propagation, and…
This year it was over 6000 plants on two trucks, the first from Elite Growers and the next to arrive, the Scott Byron & Co. truck, pulling a trailer. It had to be piled higher than last year to hold that many shrubs, grasses, perennials,…
On Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017 New Horizons Community Garden held a get-together to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the garden! Present and former leaders of the garden spoke about its history; shown here are three we could capture (from left to right) Celeste Groff, Erma…
Bulbs! On Saturday October 21, the CCGA Resources Committee distributed 5600 allium, tulip and daffodil bulbs to over seventy Chicago community gardens. The Resources Committee purchased the bulbs using funds previously received from the gardeners in the form of registration fees, and the photo shows…