5000 vegetable and flower seedlings and 135 community gardens; those are the statistics for this year’s Resources Committee distributions on May 7 and May 14. The Resources Committee grew the seedlings in the Center for Green Technology greenhouse, and then distributed large “sampler packs” of tomatoes,…
The Rebuilding Exchange has just released their spring session workshop schedule. They offer everything from traditional woodworking classes to one-day “Make It Take It” classes. In addition, you can attend various sustainability classes, like Composting 101 and Chickens in the City. For those who are…
What goes better with a Sunday morning than spending time thinking about gardening, plants and meeting new people? Coffee, of course but yes it is the Mike Nowak Show which features a new venue but a familiar time and a lot of old friends. Starting…
Resource Committee guru Robert Hart, who will co-present the Compost Bin Building Workshop at the March 5 CCGA Annual Conference, has an offer for you, community gardeners! Call Robert at 773-656-8377 if you need rain barrels. Get ’em now while they last!
On a cold gray day in early February, the Logistics Committee for the CCGA Annual Conference got together and made gorgeous centerpieces out of plants grown by the Resources Committee. Check out the photo above: Gina Jamison, Philip Englert, Angela Taylor and LaVerne Morris showing…
The 4th CCGA annual conference is at the South Shore Cultural Center on Saturday March 5th at 9am. Registration is now open here. The cost to attend is $10 to help cover our costs and payment can be made when registering or in-person on March…
The Bold Urban Renaissance Network (B.U.R.N.) is accepting submissions for the spring cycle of their Chicago Community Grant Program through April 24th. What is the Chicago Community Grant Program? This program engages grassroots programs being run in Chicago, or by Chicagoans. Microgrants will help fund…
Corona offers a very limited number of landscape tool grants to gardens on a first-come, first-served basis. The application is very simple.
Kitchen Gardens International is a simple-to-apply-for grant for food gardens. The deadline is this Friday, January 9th at 4 pm, Central time. Learn how to apply on our event page.
Have you ever wanted to expand programming at your site outside the usual boundaries of gardening? Would you like to help musical performances, barbecues, salsa tastings, art classes, birthday parties, holiday observances, or other creative events happen at your garden? The National Environmental Education Foundation…