Chicago Community Gardeners Association

Project 2746: Grow With Us!
2016-03-10 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Chicago) | Dill Pickle Co-op, 2746 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Project 2746 is a weekly Thursday evening event series building cooperative community in the Dill Pickle’s future home. Come check out the space and stay to soak up some sustainable gardening practices with a few of our favorites:

‘Soil Truthing’
with Nance Klehm of Social Ecologies & Ground Rules
Bring a soil sample from your garden!
Bee Informed!
with Michael Thompson of Chicago Honey Co-op
Seed Starting
with Lora Lode of Monticello Garden & NeighborSpace

HELP US GROW!
Contribute to the expansion: www.dillpickle.coop/owner-loans
GET INVOLVED IN 2746!
Contribute your time & talents!
Email Cara at TheBrine@DillPickle.coop.

“Food Safety, Post-Harvest Handling, and Scheduling Plantings for Community Food Systems”
2016-03-12 09:30 - 13:30 | First United Methodist Church of Oak Lawn – 100th & Central Ave., Oak Lawn Webinar viewing location: 826 S Ada Street, Chicago. 60607, Chicago, IL, United States
The University of Illinois Extension is partnering with Grace Seeds Ministry to offer a free Food Safety Training for all participants of Chicagoland community food systems.

March 12, 2016 (9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.)
Safe and Smart! “Food Safety, Post-Harvest Handling, and Scheduling Plantings for Community Food Systems”
@ two locations

First United Methodist Church of Oak Lawn – 100th & Central Ave., Oak Lawn
Webinar viewing location: 826 S Ada Street, Chicago. 60607

Free Training. Morning snack and light lunch included.

University of IL Extension Local Food Systems and Small Farms educator Zack Grant will cover steps urban scale community food production sites can implement before and after the actual food production is happening. Zack Grant will cover

food safety planning for small food producing sites
how to handle produce once it has been harvested
pre-season planning to prevent harvest waste and increase logistical ease for the end user.

This training will be tailored to the unique work Grace Seeds Ministry is conducting through its Share the Harvest Project in Chicago; but is open and applicable to all Chicagoland community garden participants. If you participate in a community or school garden, share produce at a farmers market or food pantry, or just want to be sure you’re feeding your family safely from your home garden – this training is for you!
Please RSVP to graceseesministry@gmail.com or 773-495-7865.

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Food Safety Training for Community Food Systems
2016-03-12 09:30 - 13:30 | • First United Methodist Church of Oak Lawn, 100th & Central Ave., Oak Lawn , Oak Lawn, IL, United States
The University of Illinois Extension is partnering with 2015 INUAg winner Grace Seeds Ministry to offer a free Food Safety Training for all participants of Chicagoland community food systems.
March 12, 2016 (9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.)
Safe and Smart! “Food Safety, Post-Harvest Handling, and Scheduling Plantings for Community Food Systems”
@ two locations
• First United Methodist Church of Oak Lawn – 100th & Central Ave., Oak Lawn
• Webinar viewing location: 826 S Ada Street, Chicago. 60607
Free Training. Morning snack and light lunch included.
University of IL Extension Local Food Systems and Small Farms educator Zack Grant will cover steps urban scale community food production sites can implement before and after the actual food production is happening. Zack Grant will cover
• food safety planning for small food producing sites
• how to handle produce once it has been harvested
• pre-season planning to prevent harvest waste and increase logistical ease for the end user.
This training will be tailored to the unique work Grace Seeds Ministry is conducting through its Share the Harvest Project in Chicago; but is open and applicable to all Chicagoland community garden participants. If you participate in a community or school garden, share produce at a farmers market or food pantry, or just want to be sure you’re feeding your family safely from your home garden – this training is for you!
Please RSVP to graceseesministry@gmail.com or 773-495-7865.
Rev. Linda Wygant
Grace Seeds Ministry
graceseedsministry@gmail.com
773-495-7865

Chicago Flower and Garden Show
2016-03-12 10:00 - 2016-03-20 18:00 | Navy Pier, 600 E Grand Ave, Chicago, IL, 60611, United States
The roots and inspiration of the Chicago Flower & Garden Show can be traced back as far as 1847 when an exposition was presented by the Chicago Horticulture Society. The show has since evolved. From decade to decade it has moved venues, grown in size and expanded its list of attractions. Today the show welcomes more than 40,000 attendees to Navy Pier, where they can experience every facet of horticulture. While visiting, attendees can walk through life-size gardens, participate in DIY workshops, learn from educational seminars, enjoy garden-to-table cooking presentations and more. The Chicago Flower & Garden Show is encouraging new generations to get involved and be inspired by gardening.

Forest Park Seed Swap
2016-03-13 14:00 - 16:00 | St. John Lutheran Church, 305 Circle Ave, Forest Park, IL, 60130, United States
The 6th Annual Forest Park Seed Swap on March 13th from 2-4pm. Come swap seeds with other gardeners. If you don’t have seeds available we will have seeds for sale that you can use as your entrance to the swap. The seed swap is free if you register ahead of time.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/forest-park-community-garden-annual-seed-swap-tickets-21777625464
You can reach the seed swap via the Green and Purple CTA lines.

Small Farm Season Extension @ Windy City Harvest
2016-03-19 09:00 - 12:00 | Arturo Velasquez Institute Greenhouse, 2800 S Western Ave , Chicago, IL, 60608, United States
Learn how to extend your spring or fall growing season to 9-months or even year round production. Explore what crops and varieties perform best in Chicago. Specific techniques will be covered, such as using row cover, building simple low tunnels and cold frames, and creating protected cultivation in a hoophouse. This workshop includes a hands-on basic low tunnel build out activity.
To register for this workshop go to http://www.chicagobotanic.org/education/windy_city_harvest

Seed Starting Workshop
2016-03-19 11:00 | Kilbourn Park Organic Greenhouse, 3501 N. Kilbourn, Chicago, IL, 60641, United States
Seed Starting Educational Talk
This presentation will be given by Vicki Westerhoff, who owns Genesis Growers near ST. Anne, Illinois and has a CSA. This class will be hands on and the cost will go towards materials.

Designing Your Garden Using Permaculture Principles
2016-03-26 09:00 - 17:00 | Christy Webber Landscapes Headquarters, 2900 W Ferdinand Street, Chicago, IL, 60623, United States
DESIGNING YOUR GARDEN USING PERMACULTURE PRINCIPLES
This 8- hour project workshop will be held at:

Christy Webber Landscapes – Rancho Verde Site
2900 W. Ferdinand Street (Behind former Center for Green Technology at 445 N Sacramento Blvd, 60612)
Saturday, March 26, 2016
Workshop begins promptly at 9am and runs until 5pm.
Tea and coffee included. Potluck for breakfast, lunch and snacks.
Fee: $175.00 – payable by cash, credit card, or money order.
Prepayment required to reserve a seat. Strict limit of 10 participants.
RSVP to Christy Webber Farm & Garden Center – 312-829-8200.
Participants will bring their proposed garden design (if available) or current garden information and will leave workshop with a working design. Please bring a memory stick to workshop. Course workbook will be provided.

Topics to be covered:

Morning Session:

Recognize the problems associated with current garden practices
Discuss the need for Permaculture in garden design
Study Permaculture Design Strategies such as:

Zone and Sector Mapping: plant what, where, why

Earthworks: berms, keyholes and herb spirals

Sheet mulching: also known as lasagna gardening

Forest Gardening: stacking plantings in space and time to increase yield

How to protect the soil from sun, wind and rain

Understand soil and its functions

Soil texture/structure

Soil testing: pH, contaminants, permeability

The Soil food web

Organic matter and Humus in soil

Nutrient cycling

Protecting soil and soil organisms

Include wildlife habitat in your garden design to attract birds, pollinators, predatory insects and beneficial bugs

Afternoon session:

Review individual garden designs as a group
Plant Guilds: how to choose plants based on their ability to support each other’s functional needs
Identify appropriate plants for our hardiness zone
Identify economical, readily available building material options: bricks, cardboard, urbanite, containers
Understand the problems and solutions regarding raised bed boxes
Combining The New Perennials Movement with edibles

About the Instructor:
AnnaMaria León received her Permaculture Design Course Certification in Fall of 2011 from the Bloomington, IN Permaculture Activist team. In October 2013, she graduated from City of Chicago’s Arturo Velasquez Institute and Chicago Botanic Garden’s Windy City Harvest Program with a certificate in Sustainable Urban Agriculture. Annamaria is also a Traditional Chinese Feng Shui Consultant and currently manages the Edible Landscaping Division at Christy Webber Landscapes.

MidFex Grafting Workshop – Fruit Trees for Your Garden – Sunday April 3rd
2016-04-03 13:00 - 17:00 | Chicago Botanic Garden, 1000 Lake Cook Rd, Glencoe, IL, 60022, United States
The single best resource for growing fruit trees in community gardens in the Chicago area – MidFex is a club of fruit tree growers located here in Chicago. The MidFex grafting workshop will be held this year at the Chicago Botanic Garden on Sunday April 3rd, 2016 at 1pm, and will be your chance to graft and take back to your gardens dwarf fruit trees.
For more information see the MidFex website at: http://www.midfex.org/

CCGA Spring Flower Distribution Saturday April 9th at 9am
2016-04-09 09:00 - 11:00 | Chicago Center for Green Technology (CCGT), 445 N Sacramento, Chicago, IL, 60612, United States
The CCGA Resources Committee will hold its annual Spring Flower Distribution at 9am April 9, 2016 at the Center for Green Technology, 445 N. Sacramento. Pansies, cerinthe, delphiniums, alyssum, linaria, nemesia: all good early pollen sources for our insect friends, and beautiful colors for us! More details will be posted soon on the CCGA web site.

History of Community Gardens
2016-04-09 10:00 - 11:30 | Kilbourn Park Organic Greenhouse, 3501 N. Kilbourn, Chicago, IL, 60641, United States
Join us for this weekend’s event on April 9th from 10-11:30/12. Please come out and listen to an educational talk about the History of Community Gardens by Freyja Conrad. It should be a great talk and will hopefully help gear you up by becoming apart of that social history.

CCGA Coordinating Meeting Saturday April 9th 2016 at Green Tech Center
2016-04-09 11:00 - 13:00 | Chicago Center for Green Technology (CCGT), 445 N Sacramento, Chicago, IL, 60612, United States
CCGA Coordinating Meeting – 11am Saturday April 9th 2016 at Chicago Center for Green Technology – 445 N Sacramento Blvd.
This coordinating meeting agenda will focus on response and evaluations from the CCGA annual conference. The meeting starts at 11am at the Chicago Center for Green Technology on the 2nd floor after the plant distribution. Parking is behind the building.

Chicago FarmWorks Volunteer Days
2016-04-16 09:00 - 12:00 | Chicago FarmWorks, 407 N Kedzie, Chicago, IL, United States
Chicago FarmWorks fights two issues associated with poverty: unemployment and hunger. Utilizing a two acre farm in the East Garfield Park neighborhood, we distribute local produce of the highest quality to those who need it most, and help people overcoming multiple barriers to employment find full-time, permanent, viable jobs. We invite community members to join us on the farm to volunteer. Get your hands dirty, have fun, and learn more about urban agriculture!
Volunteer days are help the third Saturday or Sunday of the month from 9am to 12pm. Youth 12 and older are welcome when accompanied by a responsible adult, with up to 3 youth per adult.
The farm includes a small shaded area, portable bathroom, and running water at the site, but facilities are limited. Please dress for the weather and bring water, snacks, and sunscreen.

Englewood Veteran’s Garden - 2016 Opening Day
2016-04-16 09:30 - 12:00 | Englewood Veteran’s Garden, 5705 S. Hermitage street,, Chicago, IL, United States
Rain or shine! The OPENING DATE for the 2016 garden growing season will be SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 2016, 9:30am.
If you are interested in growing your own organic groceries, interested in workshops about wellness, seed starting, composting, growing herbs and veggies, how to cook the nutritious vegetables you grow and many more activities? Come garden with us!

Garden Project Director Email: englewoodvetgarden@gmail.com

Hermitage Street Community Garden - Opening Day 2016
2016-04-16 09:30 - 12:00 | Hermitage St Community Garden, 5643 S Hermitage Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
If you are interested in growing your own organic groceries this year, interested in workshops about seed starting, composting, growing herbs and veggies, how to cook the nutritious vegetables you grow? And much, much more, come garden with us!
Contact our Garden Director at hermitagestreetcommunitygarden@gmail.com.

El Paseo Community Garden - Opening Day/Apertura de Jardin
2016-04-16 10:00 - 14:00 | El Paseo Community Garden, 966 W. 21st St, Chicago, IL, United States
GARDEN OPENING DAY / APERTURA DE JARDÍN EL PASEO COMMUNITY GARDEN
www.elpaseogarden.org
(773) 234-6168
elpaseo.communitygarden@neighbor-space.org
VENGAN Y AYUDANOS! COME AND HELP US!
GARDEN OPENING DAY
• Pintar/ Paint
• Limpiar/ Clean-up
• Hablar sobre tierra/ Soil Talk
• Convivo de Comida / Pot Luck
Traigan un platillo para compartir! Bring a dish to share!
SABADO, 16 DE ABRIL
SATURDAY, APRIL 16TH
10AM-2PM
944 W. 21st Street Chicago, IL 60608

Peterson Garden Project Plant Sale: Cool Crops
2016-04-22 12:00 - 16:00
Shop the Peterson Garden Project Pop-Up Plant Sale and get your garden growing! This year’s plant sale is going to be our biggest yet! For the April sale, we’ll have a wide selection of edible cool-weather seedlings, seed potatoes and seeds. And since this is Chicago gardening, we’ve curated the selection of plants with small spaces and wacky weather in mind. We’ll also have a range of herbs and a soil salon featuring our favorite fertilizers and composts – everything you need to help you get your 2016 garden in shape. Plus, we’ll have expert gardeners on hand to help with plant selection and offer advice.
SALE HOURS
FRI 4/22: 12PM – 4PM
SAT 4/23: 10AM – 4PM
Find a list of plants that will be available and more details about the plant sales. Don’t forget to attend our second sale in May for warm-weather seedlings.
This is Peterson Garden Project’s biggest fundraiser of the year. Proceeds from the plant sale help fund our community gardens and community cooking school. Buy local and grow local.

Winthrop Harmony Arts Garden - Youth Theater Ensemble
2016-04-30 13:00 - 15:00 | Broadway Armory Park, 5713 N. Broadway , Chicago, IL, 60660, United States
Hiring Young People for a youth theater ensemble (ages 15 and up)
Pay: $8.25 hour
Hours of employment: Saturdays starting May 14 through August 14 ( will be working approximately 4 to 5 hours each Saturday)
Young People will produce:
THE BEAN/ THE BEING — When lazy Jack returns home having traded the milk cow for beans, his mortified mother exclaims: “And as for your precious beans here they go out of the window! Off to bed with you! Not a sup shall you drink and not a bit shall you swallow this very night.” THE BEAN will be a play, loosely based on Jack and the Beanstalk, exploring youth/parent relations, poverty and hunger, a world of giants, and the magic of the good ole sustainable bean that impacts nutrition globally.
HOW THE BEAN IS CREATED and COMMUNITY IMPACT —Martie Sanders, teaching artist with Green Scene Chicago, will mentor 6-person teen theater ensemble in growing pole beans and other flora as the set at Winthrop Harmony Arts Garden and then help them create THE BEAN through writing and improvising. It will be offered free to Uptown audiences who will sample fresh beans dishes from all over the world. The final show will involve nutrition education and reach children in Uptown.
Teens interested in being a part of this innovative ensemble should come to the Summer Youth Jobs Fair at the The Broadway Armory — this weekend on Saturday April 30 — 1-3 pm and find Martie Sanders at GREEN SCENE booth.
Those teens who cannot meet Martie face to face on Saturday should connect by email and show interest: Martie@greenscenechicago.org
www.greenscenechicago.org

Peterson Garden Project Plant & Bake Sale: Hot Crops
2016-05-06 12:00 - 16:00 | 5035 North Broadway, Chicago, IL 60640, 5035 N Broadway, Chicago, IL, 60640, United States
Shop the Peterson Garden Project Pop-Up Plant Sale and get your garden growing! This year’s plant sale is going to be our biggest yet! We’ll have a wide selection of plants, seeds and seedlings. And since this is Chicago gardening, we’ve curated the selection of plants with small spaces and wacky weather in mind – including some varieties not available anywhere else in Chicago – such as a dwarf tomato grown exclusively for Peterson Garden Project. We’ll also have a range of edible flowers, herbs and a soil salon – everything you need to help you get your 2016 garden in shape. Plus, we’ll have expert gardeners on hand to help with plant selection and offer advice. The May sale will also include a bake sale and special events for Mom on Mother’s Day.
SALE HOURS
FRI 5/6: 12PM – 4PM
SAT 5/7: 10AM – 4PM
SUN 5/8: 10AM – 4PM
Find a list of plants that will be available and more details about the plant sales here.
This is Peterson Garden Project’s biggest fundraiser of the year. Proceeds from the plant sale help fund our community gardens and community cooking school. Buy local and grow local.

Openlands presents "Organizing Your Community Garden" Training
2016-05-07 09:30 - 12:30 | Breakthrough Ministries Familyplex, 3219 W. Carroll Ave., Chicago, IL, 60624, United States
Join us to learn how to organize all aspects of the garden from recruiting members and gaining supporters to practical ways to self organize including using apps to keep track of projects. We will also show you how to create a design map for your site. Sign up here!
For more info contact us at gardens@openlands.org.

Green and Growing: A Speaker Series - Weird Vegetables
2016-05-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Sulzer Regional Library, 4455 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Monday, May 9 at 7pm –Weird Vegetables – Weird vegetables to grow and how to grow things weirdly!
Speaker: Amanda Thomsen, author of Kiss My Aster: A Graphic Guide to Creating a Yard Totally Tailored to You

Building Healthy Soil
2016-05-14 09:00 - 12:00 | Arturo Velasquez Institute Greenhouse, 2800 S Western Ave , Chicago, IL, 60608, United States
Learn about composting, vermicomposting, cover cropping, and other soil-building techniques. This workshop will cover soil testing and pH for vegetable crops. Healthy soil is the key to healthy plants! This workshop is instructed by Joan Hopkins, 2007 Windy City Harvest graduate and Windy City Harvest Corps Coordinator.
Saturday, May 14th, 2016 9 a.m. – noon Arturo Velasquez Institute Greenhouse Register Online – http://www.chicagobotanic.org/education/windy_city_harvest

CCGA Vegetable Seedling Distribution May 14, 9am
2016-05-14 09:00 - 12:00 | Chicago Center for Green Technology (CCGT), 445 N Sacramento, Chicago, IL, 60612, United States
Vegetable Seedling Distribution
445 N. Sacramento Blvd
Saturday, May 14, 2016
Register Now!
The Resources Committee has grown hundreds of vegetable seedlings to kick-start your gardens: 18 types of tomatoes (including some gorgeous heirlooms), sweet and hot peppers, kale, rosemary, brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, parsley, basil and collards. We will also have a variety of ornamental annuals, including asclepias, ageratum, datura, impatiens, rudbeckia, snapdragons, marigolds, verbena bonariensis, pentas, talinum, salvia and nasturtiums…whew! Each community garden will receive a large pre-selected sampler box of goodies. Bonus items: lucky winners (we’ll explain) will get to choose from a selection of beautiful perennials donated by our good friends at Westover Farms.
Registration Fee – $5.00
Pre-Register with your name, name of garden, address of community garden and contact email to: Mamie Gray mamie@uic.edu
Check-In: 9:00am to 9:30am
Workshop: 9:30am to 10:00am
“Building a Better Tomato Cage”
Distribution: 10:00am to 11:00am
One Sampler Box Per Garden.
This event is for Community Gardens only.
No Private, Home, or Backyard gardens.

Howard Area Community Garden's 1st Spring Plant Sale May 14th and 15th
2016-05-14 09:00 - 2016-05-15 15:00 | Howard Area Community Garden, 1715-25 W. Juneway Terrace, Chicago, IL, 60626, United States
The Howard Area Community Garden‘s first Spring Plant Sale will be in full swing from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, May 14 and Sunday, May 15, in our garden at the corner of Hermitage and Juneway in the North of Howard neighborhood (Rogers Park). We will have over 1300 plants, representing 30 varieties, all grown using organic methods and materials by volunteers. All proceeds will go towards improving this wonderful little community garden, founded in 1982. We’ve posted a list of our plants over on our blog: http://howardareacommunitygarden.blogspo…

DÍA DE SIEMBRA /PLANTING DAY at El Paseo
2016-05-14 10:00 - 14:00 | El Paseo Community Garden, 966 W. 21st St, Chicago, IL, United States
Si llueve sera el próximo día Domingo 15 de Mayo
If it rains we will reschedule for the next day, Sunday May 15th
• Limpiar/ Clean-up
• Sembrar cajas compartidas/Plant shared beds
• Formar equipos para / Make teams for shared
• Convivo /Pot-Luck
Traigan un platillo para compartir! / Bring a dish to share!
El PASEO
COMMUNITY GARDEN
(773) 234-6168

Kilbourn Park Organic Greenhouse Plant Sale May 14th and 15th
2016-05-14 10:00 - 2016-05-15 14:00 | Kilbourn Park Organic Greenhouse, 3501 N. Kilbourn, Chicago, IL, 60641, United States
Help us celebrate our 20th year! Kilbourn Park Organic Greenhouse will offer more than 150 varieties of organically-grown vegetable, herb, and flower seedlings. Customers can expect a wide variety of open-pollinated and heirloom tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants. Other highlights include an assortment of herbs, greens and onions. This year will feature many new plants selected for city gardening in small spaces and containers. These seedlings are grown with the support of a team of dedicated volunteers who make this Plant Sale possible. Volunteers will be on hand to answer questions about plant selection and planting. This yearly fundraiser supports the greenhouse and our work to connect kids to nature and healthy foods.
Also Available at the Plant Sale: Perennials and other plants donated by volunteers of the Kilbourn Park Organic Greenhouse, organic compost, and light snacks. In addition, a cookbook compiled by the Friends of Kilbourn Park Organic Greenhouse will be available for purchase. Look for the Friends of Kilbourn Park Organic Greenhouse tables just outside the main gate to the gardens.
Dates: May 14th and 15th (10am – 2pm)
Plant Prices ($2.00 to $5.00) CASH ONLY
*Sunday there will be a kids station with hands on planting activities to help jump start their green thumbs!
Where: Kilbourn Park – 3501 North Kilbourn Avenue Greenhouse , Chicago, IL 60641
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1228495890495388/
Event Bright: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kilbourn-parks-organic-gh-plant-sale-tickets-24495198799

CCGA Coordinating Meeting Saturday May 14th at 11am
2016-05-14 11:00 - 13:00 | Chicago Center for Green Technology (CCGT), 445 N Sacramento, Chicago, IL, 60612, United States
Please join us at 11am Saturday May 14th at the Chicago Center for Green Technology at 445 N. Sacramento Blvd. The meeting agenda includes: CCGA Working Team reports on: Tasks for 2016 and Budget (income and expenses); Calendar for the year to include dates for coordinating meetings, plant distributions, workshops (see conference evaluation list) and the 2017 CCGA Annual Conference. We’ll meet on the 2nd floor, after the Vegetable Seedling Distribution. You’ll find parking behind the building.

Green and Growing: A Speaker Series - Perennials, The Economizers of the Edible Landscape
2016-05-18 19:00 - 21:00
Wednesday, May 18 at 7pm – Perennials, The Economizers of the Edible Landscape
Speaker: Lisa Hilgenberg, horitculturalist for the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Regenstein Fruit & Vegetable Garden

Green and Growing: A Speaker Series - Fearless Food Gardening in Chicagoland
2016-06-07 19:00 - 21:00 | Sulzer Regional Library, 4455 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Tuesday, June 7 at 7pm – Fearless Food Gardening in Chicagoland
Speaker: LaManda Joy, founder of Peterson Garden Project as well as author of Start a Community Garden: The Essential Handbook

Community Roots Demonstration & Community Garden Formal Opening - June 11th
2016-06-11 10:00 - 14:00 | Skinner Park, 1331 W Adams St., Chicago, IL, 60607, United States
The Community Roots Demonstration & Community Garden will formally open to the public on June 11 of this year with a full day of festivities to kick off the beginning of the programming season.
Located in Skinner Park on the Near West Side of Chicago, the garden will soon become home to a wide offering of classes and workshops, as well as opportunities for more passive and informal garden learning. Because this new space is being envisioned as a place for all of Chicago’s gardeners to gather, you’ll see many familiar faces from our green-thumbed community—Chicago Botanic Garden, Illinois Extension Master Gardeners, Chicago Honey Co-op, Social Ecologies, and more. Don’t forget to bring the kids; there will be tons of fun activities for them too. —plus, there will be a LOT of kid-friendly activities. We envision this space as a home for all of Chicago’s Gardeners. Join in the festivities June 11, 10am-2pm.
