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  • Windy City Harvest: Excel for Small Farm Crop Planning

    Chicago Botanic Garden 1000 Lake Cook Rd, Glencoe, IL, United States

    Arturo Velasquez Institute Greenhouse Erin Matson, Windy City Harvest apprenticeship instructor $39 This workshop will cover how to utilize Excel to plan out a season of continuous annual vegetable crop production on your small farm or community garden plot. A crop plan excel template typically…

    $39

  • September Bike Ride: We Ride Juntos

    Green tomato cafe - meeting place 3750 W. Ogden Ave., Chicago, IL, United States

    Community partners from North and South Lawndale will be hosting a neighborhood bike ride as part of the Sustainable September Ride Series organized by Slow Roll Chicago and Chicago Sustainable Leaders Network! Everyone will be able to  ride along a route that will highlight assets and sustainable initiatives…

  • What’s Happening in the Garden? – Peterson Garden Project

    Global Garden 2974 W. Lawrence Ave., Chicago, IL, United States

    Join us for our free class, What’s Happening in the Garden?, taught in a different Peterson Garden Project community garden every month. For the month of September, we’ll talk about: -adjusting the garden to cooler temperatures -fall pests and diseases and what to do about…

    FREE

  • Tomato Fest

    Kilbourn Park Organic Greenhouse 3501 N. Kilbourn, Chicago, IL, United States

    Join local food and gardening advocates as we highlight the many ways you can enjoy your bountiful tomato harvest all year long. The Chicago Park District, Slow Food Midwest Ark of Taste Committee, Illinois Extension Master Gardeners and the Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance will be…

    Free

  • Yoga in the Garden at Vedgewater

    Vedgewater 6300 N. Broadway, Chicago, IL, United States

    What’s more peaceful than sun salutations in the garden? Come join us for a free yoga class at Vedgewater, taught by an experienced professional instructor, Mary Beth Johnson. The class will be geared toward gardeners and the ailments that can come with gardening (knees, wrists, low…

    FREE

  • Windy City Harvest: Home-Scale Aquaponics

    Chicago Botanic Garden 1000 Lake Cook Rd, Glencoe, IL, United States

    Arturo Velasquez Institute Greenhouse Andy McGhee, Windy City Harvest aquaponics coordinator

    $39

  • Community Tomato Tasting and Seed Saving Demonstration

    Global Garden 2974 W. Lawrence Ave, Chicago, IL, United States

    Taste heirloom and open-pollinated tomatoes and collect the seeds from your favorites! Choosing tomatoes from pictures in seed catalogs just isn’t the same as choosing one tomato based on taste at a  tomato tasting/seed swap!   Bring your best homegrown or farmers’ market heirloom or open-pollinated tomatoes…

  • 2015 Growing Food and Justice for All Gathering

    We are getting excited for our annual Growing Food and Justice Annual Gathering, where we hope to see new faces as well as old friends! We hope to use the conference as an opportunity to strengthen relationships with community partners, and to share food and…

  • Westside Perennial Distribution – Friday, September 25, 2015

    New Horizons Community Garden 401 S. Central Park, Chicago, IL, United States

    The CCGA Fall Perennial Distribution is Coming! In September, the CCGA Resources Committee will be distributing more perennials thanks to the efforts of Scott Byron Landscape Company. Here are the details: On Friday, September 25, Scott Byron will DELIVER PLANTS to three locations: New Horizons…