Growing Herbs for Flavor, Nutrition, and Health - Workshop Saturday June 10th at 9am
2017-06-10 10:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Center for Green Technology, 445 North Sacramento, Chicago, IL, 60612, United States
The CCGA Education Committee is hosting a new culinary herb workshop!
Learn how to grow, cook, preserve and make simple home remedies with herbs in this informative and tasty workshop about the wide range of herbs easily grown in our Chicago gardens. Chef and farmer Sarah Mallin will lead the workshop. She is owner of Pyrite Sun and creator of The Physic Garden at Breanne Heath’s, The Pie Patch Farm in Back of the Yards. The workshop will guide community gardeners through how to nurture herbs in their gardens and use them in the kitchen, beverages, and a home remedy repertoire.
We’ll explore the special properties of herbs that make them so flavorful and nutritious and why some people taste herbs like cilantro differently than others. Sarah will have a wide range of herb samples from The Physic Garden at The Pie Patch available for tasting, as well as demo samples of pesto, tea, and tinctures.
The class will begin with a short lecture on the history and uses of herbs, followed by growing and preserving advice and a sensory exploration of herb samples. Sarah will then provide samples of pesto and tea, explaining how to make your own at home, followed by a Q & A time.
Date: Saturday June 10th at 10am
Location: Chicago Center for Green Technology (CCGT), 445 N. Sacramento Blvd. Chicago IL 60612.
The workshop is free, but seating is limited, so please RSVP your intention to attend HERE.

Lecture: Organic Gardening Basics
2017-06-19 19:00 - 20:00 | Sulzer Regional Library, 4455 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Montrose Metra Community Garden – Green & Growing Speaker Series
Presented by Montrose Metra Community Gardens, the Ravenswood Manor Garden Club and Chicago Public Library
At The Sulzer Regional Library, 4455 N. Lincoln Avenue Chicago IL 60625
Monday, June 19 at 7pm
Organic Gardening Basics
Speaker: Lisa Hilgenberg,
Horticulturalist for the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Regenstein Fruit & Vegetable Garden
All Events are free to attend.
RSVP at facebook.com/montrosemetragardens or email montrosemetragardens@gmail.com for more information.

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Veggie Bingo at the Hideout
2017-06-21 17:30 - 20:00, 2017-08-30 17:30 - 20:00, 2017-09-06 17:30 - 20:00 | The Hideout, 1354 W Wabansia, Chicago, IL, 60642, United States
The Hideout and NeighborSpace present

VEGGIE BINGO
FAMILY FRIENDLY!
Every Wednesday in Summer:
June 21–September 6, 2017, 5:30-8pm
At the Hideout, 1354 West Wabansia in Chicago
PRIZES INCLUDE FARM-FRESH VEGETABLES— GRAND PRIZE IS A GIANT BAG OF ORGANIC PRODUCE FROM IRV AND SHELLY’S FRESH PICKS! —AND OTHER LOCALLY-SOURCED EDIBLES, PLUS MUCH MORE! PROCEEDS BENEFIT CHICAGO COMMUNITY GARDENS.

Fresh veggies from Irv and Shelley’s Fresh Picks
Free Coffee for a Year from Book Cellar
2-show passes from Improv Olympic
Upscale American comfort food gift certificates from Cafe Selmarie
Pastry-and-coffee gift cards from Cellar Door Provisions
Distillery tours and flasks of gins from Chicago Distilling Company
Fried chicken gift cards from Honey Butter Fried Chicken
Cheesecake gift certificates from Eli’s Cheesecake

Full prize list at neighbor-space.org/veggiebingo

23rd Annual Pullman Garden Walk - A Garden Walk and Tea, Saturday June 24th
2017-06-24 10:00 - 16:00 | Historic Pullman Visitor Center, 614 East 113th Street, Chicago, IL, 60628, United States
The Historic Pullman Garden Club, with co-sponsors the Historic Pullman Foundation, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency and Pullman State Historic Site, invite you back to the Victorian era of the 1880’s during the 23rd Annual Garden Walk – A Garden Walk and Tea, on Saturday June 24, 2017, from 10am to 4pm.
Victorians passed the summer days more leisurely than we do today and so can you, as you step back in time within this picturesque historic neighborhood. The event begins at the Pullman National Monument Visitor Center, 11141 South Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago IL 60628, where you will pick up a ticket brochure/map to begin your tour.
Tickets include a light Summer-themed Tea to be held on the veranda of the Hotel Florence. You can enjoy one of the guided walking tours of the historic district, or use the self-guided tour map and stroll at your own pace. The tour will wind through the row house lined blocks to visit the public gardens, including the Gateway Garden, a part of the NeighborSpace community garden network, select private gardens, plus our community food garden and urban gardens. Tea service will begin at 11 a.m.
Tickets for the event are $12 in advance by emailing historicpullmangardens@gmail.com or calling (773) 568-2441 until June 22nd or $15 on the day of the event.
The Pullman Historic District can be reached by taking the 111th Street exit west off of I-94 or via the Metra Electric Train Line, exiting on the 111th St/Pullman stop.
Please feel free to visit our website at www.hpgc.org or our Facebook page for event details at https://www.facebook.com/events/1785743875074681/.
23rd Annual Pullman Garden Walk Flyer

Next CCGA Coordinating Meeting – Tuesday June 27th, 6:30pm
2017-06-27 18:30 - 20:00 | Chicago Center for Green Technology (CCGT), 445 N Sacramento, Chicago, IL, 60612, United States
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 normal committee business.
We will meet on the 2nd floor and there is parking behind the building. Bring a snack or drink to share if you can.
NOTE: All CCGA coordinating meeting minutes are available for you to review on the website. Look under the menu tree at ‘Who We Are’ and then ‘CCGA Organization’ and you will see links here for the coordinating committee documents.
Hope to see you there!

Lecture: Water Conservation in the Garden
2017-07-17 19:00 - 20:00 | Sulzer Regional Library, 4455 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Montrose Metra Community Garden – Green & Growing Speaker Series
Presented by Montrose Metra Community Gardens, the Ravenswood Manor Garden Club and Chicago Public Library
At The Sulzer Regional Library, 4455 N. Lincoln Avenue Chicago IL 60625
Monday, July 17 at 7pm
Water Conservation in the Garden
Speaker: TBD
All Events are free to attend.
RSVP at facebook.com/montrosemetragardens or email montrosemetragardens@gmail.com for more information.

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Lecture: Common Pests and Problems in Chicago Gardens
2017-08-21 19:00 - 20:00 | Sulzer Regional Library, 4455 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Montrose Metra Community Garden – Green & Growing Speaker Series
Presented by Montrose Metra Community Gardens, the Ravenswood Manor Garden Club and Chicago Public Library
At The Sulzer Regional Library, 4455 N. Lincoln Avenue Chicago IL 60625
Monday, August 21 at 7pm
Common Pests and Problems in Chicago Gardens
Speaker: Adrienne Detanico,
Horticulturalist for The Organic Gardener Ltd.
All Events are free to attend.
RSVP at facebook.com/montrosemetragardens or email montrosemetragardens@gmail.com for more information.

Lecture Fall Garden Prep and Seed Saving
2017-09-18 19:00 - 20:00 | Sulzer Regional Library, 4455 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Montrose Metra Community Garden – Green & Growing Speaker Series
Presented by Montrose Metra Community Gardens, the Ravenswood Manor Garden Club and Chicago Public Library
At The Sulzer Regional Library, 4455 N. Lincoln Avenue Chicago IL 60625
Monday, September 18 at 7pm
Fall Garden Prep and Seed Saving
Speaker: TBD
All Events are free to attend.
RSVP at facebook.com/montrosemetragardens or email montrosemetragardens@gmail.com for more information.

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Lecture: Urban Composting Methods
2017-10-16 19:00 - 20:00 | Sulzer Regional Library, 4455 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Montrose Metra Community Garden – Green & Growing Speaker Series
Presented by Montrose Metra Community Gardens, the Ravenswood Manor Garden Club and Chicago Public Library
At The Sulzer Regional Library, 4455 N. Lincoln Avenue Chicago IL 60625
Tuesday, October 16 at 7pm
Urban Composting Methods
Speaker: TBD
All Events are free to attend.
RSVP at facebook.com/montrosemetragardens or email montrosemetragardens@gmail.com for more information.

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Soup & Bread @ The Hideout
2018-01-31 17:00 - 20:00, 2018-02-07 17:00 - 20:00, 2018-02-14 17:00 - 20:00, 2018-02-21 17:00 - 20:00, 2018-02-28 17:00 - 20:00, 2018-03-07 17:00 - 20:00, 2018-03-14 17:00 - 20:00, 2018-03-21 17:00 - 20:00 | The Hideout, 1354 W Wabansia, Chicago, IL, 60642, United States

AUA's 6th Annual Urban Livestock Expo
2018-02-03 11:00 - 14:00 | Southside Occupational Academy High School, 7342 S Hoyne Ave., Chicago, IL, 60636, United States
On February 3rd, 2018, 11am-2pm, AUA and Southside Occupational Academy warmly invite you to the 6th Annual Urban Livestock Expo: FREE, fun, family-friendly workshops on raising bees, goats, chickens, ducks and more in your yard!
All levels of expertise and interest welcome, from the experienced to the curious! Workshops will cover daily care, ideal breeds, how to troubleshoot common problems, and professionals’ tips for being a good neighbor with animals in the city. Also get a chance to explore the amazing urban agriculture program at our host site, Southside Occupational Academy!
Additionally, area urban livestock groups and businesses will staff resource tables with information on further learning opportunities, support networks, sources of supplies, equipment, and more.
Don’t miss this fun opportunity to expand your knowledge, connect with other practitioners, and bond with a goat! Further details here: bit.ly/UrbanLivestockExpo2018, and detailed workshop topics to follow. Reach out to AUA with questions at info@auachicago.org or 773-850-0428. We hope you’ll join us!

CCGA Coordinating Meeting – Tuesday February 6, 6:30pm
2018-02-06 18:30 - 20:00 | Chicago Center for Green Technology (CCGT), 445 N Sacramento, Chicago, IL, 60612, United States
The next CCGA Coordinating Meeting is Tuesday February 6th at 6:30pm at the Chicago Center for Green Technology CCGT at 445 N. Sacramento Blvd. The main item agenda is final planning for the 2018 conference.
We will meet on the 2nd floor and there is parking behind the building and as always try and bring a snack or drink to share if you can.
NOTE: All CCGA coordinating meeting minutes are available for you to review on the website. Look under the menu tree at ‘Who We Are’ and then ‘CCGA Organization’ and you will see links here for the coordinating committee documents.
Hope to see you there!

Windy City Harvest Crop Planning Workshop Workshop
2018-02-10 09:00 - 15:00 | Arturo Velasquez Institute Greenhouse, 2800 S Western Ave , Chicago, IL, 60608, United States
Windy City Harvest Crop Planning Workshop Flyer
For more information contact:
Kris De la Torre
kdelatorre@chicagobotanic.org
Urban Garden Lab & Education Coordinator
Windy City Harvest
224.723.9229

CANCELLED - Garden Tool Workshop For Community Gardeners
2018-02-10 10:00 - 11:30 | Chicago Center for Green Technology (CCGT), 445 N Sacramento, Chicago, IL, 60612, United States
Due to weather conditions, the CCGA Resources Committee Tool Distribution, Saturday, 02/10/18, has been cancelled. Please watch your emails for the rescheduling of the Tool Distribution.

The CCGA Resources and Education Committees are jointly present a new workshop for Chicago community gardeners. Edde Jones, Program Director of Greencorps, will teach us tool safety; we will also have a demonstration on the maintenance of basic gardening tools.
Thanks to the success of the Resources Committee plant distributions last year, the Resources Committee was able to purchase an assortment of pruners, loppers, hand saws, rakes, shovels, and more from Lowes. Each community garden represented at the event will receive a free tool.
Thanks, community gardeners, for making this event possible!
Hope to see you on February 10!
CCGA Resources and Education Committees

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Windy City Harvest Youth Farm Facilitator Training
2018-02-24 09:00 - 15:00 | Chicago Botanic Garden, 1000 Lake Cook Rd, Glencoe, IL, 60022, United States
For more information contact:
Kris De la Torre
kdelatorre@chicagobotanic.org
Urban Garden Lab & Education Coordinator
Windy City Harvest
224.723.9229

MidFEx Kurle Memorial Lecture - Heirloom Apples for the Midwest Orchard
2018-02-24 13:00 - 15:00 | Chicago Botanic Garden, 1000 Lake Cook Rd, Glencoe, IL, 60022, United States
MidFEx Kurle Memorial Lecture – Saturday February 24th, 2018 at 1pm
Dan Bussey of Seed Savers – Heirloom Apples for the Midwest Orchard
Daniel Bussey is an orchardist, horticulturist, historian, professional cider maker and former businessman, who grew up and spent most of his life in rural southern Wisconsin. Dan has taught workshops on grafting fruit trees, cider-making and other apple-related topics for more than 30 years and has grown heirloom apple varieties all of his life. He has been featured on Public Radio International’s “The Takeaway” and National Public Radio’s “Science Friday”, and has been the subject of numerous newspaper articles. This past August saw the long-awaited release of Dan’s seven volume work, “The Illustrated History of Apples in the United States and Canada” which lists over 16,000 apples that were grown in North America between 1629 and 2000. The book was a long-time project over 30 years in the making.
Dan is not only fascinated with heirloom apples and cider-making, but is a producer and grower of hard cider apples and has helped to introduce a new cider apple variety to the trade; Kronebusch Cider, with more varieties expected in the coming years. Dan has attended the Cider and Perry Academy’s advanced cider course at Cornell University and is an avid promoter of the cider beverage industry. Dan believes the essential element of craft cider making is the selection of the best variety of apples possible; those with superior flavors, aromatics and phenolic structure. Understand the apple and its myriad of flavors and everything else will follow.
Dan Bussey’s lifelong interest in raising fruit, seeking out rare, missing heirloom varieties and researching the history of apple growing in the United States and Canada is matched only by his other fascination, that of collecting and preserving horse-drawn sleighs, wagons and hearses, having assembled one of the largest collections of horse-drawn sleighs in the country along with numerous commercial wagons of all trades. Dan currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Carriage Museum of America, based in Lexington, Kentucky and is working on several upcoming publications on carriage history.
Dan now resides near Decorah, Iowa, where he is the Orchard Manager and Apple Historian for the Seed Savers Exchange, maintaining and enlarging the Historic Orchard at Heritage Farm to contain nearly 1300 apple accessions and make them available to orchardists. Dan believes that having a passion in life, whatever it might be, is the key to a satisfying life.
This event is free and open to MidFEx members and non-members.

6th Annual CCGA Gardeners Conference - Saturday March 3rd 2018
2018-03-03 09:00 - 14:30 | Kennedy-King College, 6301 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL, 60621, United States

Windy City Harvest Season Extension Workshop
2018-03-03 09:00 - 15:00 | Arturo Velasquez Institute Greenhouse, 2800 S Western Ave , Chicago, IL, 60608, United States
Windy City Harvest Season Extension Workshop Flyer
For more information contact:
Kris De la Torre
kdelatorre@chicagobotanic.org
Urban Garden Lab & Education Coordinator
Windy City Harvest
224.723.9229

Windy City Harvest Edible Landscape Design and Container Gardens 10 week Certificate Course Starts
2018-03-10 09:00 - 12:00 | Arturo Velasquez Institute Greenhouse, 2800 S Western Ave , Chicago, IL, 60608, United States
Windy City Harvest 10 Week Certificate Course Flyer
For more information contact:
Kris De la Torre
kdelatorre@chicagobotanic.org
Urban Garden Lab & Education Coordinator
Windy City Harvest
224.723.9229

Good Food EXPO
2018-03-23 10:00 - 2018-03-24 17:00

MidFEx Grafting Workshop
2018-03-25 13:00 - 16:00 | Chicago Botanic Garden, 1000 Lake Cook Rd, Glencoe, IL, 60022, United States
Join the Midwest Fruit Explorers (MidFEx) and find out what grafting fruit tress is all about. Learn the the whys and hows with experienced grafters. There will be an impressive amount of scion wood available for grafting. The purpose of the grafting workshop is to teach less experienced or novice grafters how to graft. Non-member beginners will learn how to graft selected apple varieties on apple rootstock.
If you’d like more information about grafting fruit trees see the MidFEx Grafting page HERE.
Please arrive on time. Lecture begins at 1:00 sharp. Workshop will last until about 4:00 pm. This afternoon event is for individuals actually grafting fruit trees, friends, spouses, and children are welcome to explore the grounds during the workshop session.
The workshop will be held Sunday March 25th, 2018 at 1pm.
Location: Chicago Botanic Garden, 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, Illinois. Go to the Linnaeus Room in the Regenstein Center building.
Parking: Parking is free for Chicago Botanic Garden members and members of gardens with reciprocal privileges. If you are not a member of the Botanic Gardens you will have to pay the parking fee. Visit Chicago Botanic Garden’s web pages for details on parking and membership.
Costs: This workshop and guidance are free. However you will need to buy rootstock if you want to take home a tree. MidFEx will have dwarfing apple rootstock available. Cost is $5 each with free scion wood for MidFEx members. Non-members pricing is $5 which includes two pieces of scion wood of their choice. Unless rootstocks were preordered, each attendee will be limited to three (3) rootstocks each. Grafting requires a very sharp knife with a 2-3 inch blade. Bring your own medium-size pocket knife–we can sharpen it for you if needed, or purchase one at the workshop. Other supplies are available for purchase if you would like to continue honing your grafting skills after the workshop is over.
