Chicago Community Gardeners Association

Hermosa: New Community Garden Meeting
2016-02-03 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Senior Suites of Kelvyn Park, 2715 N Cicero Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
New green space in Hermosa! 11,000 square feet of space (3.5 lots) has been dedicated for a new community garden in Hermosa at Kilpatrick and Parker. Join us to see multiple schemes for the site and learn how you can get involved and make this space work for your community.

AUA Movie & Mingle Night at Lagunitas
2016-02-02 17:30 - 20:30 | Lagunitas Chicago TapRoom, 2607 W. 17th St., Chicago, IL, 60608, United States
The Advocates for Urban Agriculture (AUA) will be screening Can You Dig This, winner of the Los Angeles Film Festival. This film, from producer John Legend, “follows the inspirational journeys of four unlikely gardeners, discovering what happens when they put their hands in the soil. This is not a story of science and economics. This is a story of the human spirit, inspiring people everywhere to pick up their shovels and ‘plant some shit.'”
Tuesday, Feburary 2 at 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Lagunitas Chicago TapRoom
2607 W. 17th St., Chicago, IL 60608
$7 suggested donation at the door. All admission and bar sales will benefit AUA and El Paseo Garden.
Open to the public 21+. Please bring ID.

Weekly Soup & Bread Fundraiser through March 30th at Hideout
2016-01-20 17:30 - 20:00 | The Hideout, 1354 W Wabansia, Chicago, IL, 60642, United States

CCGA Coordinating Meeting
2016-01-16 10:00 - 12:00 | South Shore Cultural Center, 7059 S. South Shore Drive, Chicago, IL, 60649, United States

CCGA Coordinating Meeting
2015-12-12 10:00 - 12:00 | Chicago Center for Green Technology (CCGT), 445 N Sacramento, Chicago, IL, 60612, United States
So winter is on its way! And that means you are all invited to attend the December CCGA coordinating meeting that is coming up soon – Saturday December the 12th from 10:00 am to Noon at the Green Tech Center. We will start our gathering in our usual casual fashion by sharing how gardening went for you this season…and what you will do the same (or differently!) next season and by snacking on any treats you would like to bring.
But our main goal is to start planning for the 2016 CCGA Spring Gathering and dividing up the usual event planning type tasks between each of the 4 CCGA working groups (Membership, Resources, Communication & Education).

CCGA Fall Gathering and Harvest Potluck Brunch
2015-11-14 10:00 - 12:00 | Chicago Center for Green Technology (CCGT), 445 N Sacramento, Chicago, IL, 60612, United States
The CCGA Fall Gathering is just around the corner, this Saturday, November 14th from 10:00 to Noon at the Center For Green Technology, 445 N Sacramento Blvd. We will celebrate the end of the summer growing season together and welcome Fall with a Harvest Potluck Brunch! Please bring a light dish to share. Please bring your own washable dishes, cups, and utensils so we are waste-free.
We will open the morning with a CCGA Coordinating Team discussion that will start with deciding the weekend date and the best of five location options for the CCGA Spring Festival in March 2016. Next our Four Working Groups will each make a brief report.Then we will eat and mix and mingle. If you have some harvested produce you would like to share we will highlight that because, yes, we can grow our own food, and we can cook!

Garden Bonfire at Kilbourn Park Organic Greenhouse
2015-11-12 16:30 | IL
Garden Bonfire at the Kilbourn Park Organic Greenhouse
November 12th from 4:30-6pm
Come out and bring the whole family. Enjoy a night filled with S’Mores, Nature Crafting, and Campfire Singing.
This is a free event and all ages are welcome. Please join us! Dress warmly, this event will be outside regardless of the temperature.

Kilbourn Park Organic Greenhouse - Canning Demo
2015-10-31 13:00 - 15:00 | Kilbourn Park Organic Greenhouse, 3501 N. Kilbourn, Chicago, IL, 60641, United States
FRIENDS OF KILBOURN PARK ORGANIC GREENHOUSE EDUCATIONAL EVENTS
OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER 2015
SAVE THESE DATES FOR THREE EDUCATIONAL EVENTS SPONSORED BY FRIENDS OF KPOGH IN OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER 2015

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24THAT 1 PM

NANCY BENJAMIN, MASTER GARDENER WILL GIVE A TALK ON RESTORING FERTILITY TO YOUR GARDEN AND PUTTING IT TO BED FOR THE SEASON.
THERE WILL BE A FIVE DOLLAR CHARGE FOR THIS EVENT. PLEASE LET Georgia Chilton, (ghchilton@gmail.com) know by Wednesday, October 21st, if you plan to come.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31STFROM 1-3 PM

PAM ROCK AND ROSEANNE SKONIECKE WILL DEMONSTRATE CANNING TECHNIQUES. THEY WILL SHOW HOW TO MAKE CHAMPAGNE BLUSH JELLY AND APPLE CARMEL JAM.
THERE WILL BE TASTES OF THESE!! YUM! YUM!
THERE WILL BE A $7.00 CASH CHARGE FOR THIS. PLEASE LET Georgia Chilton, (ghchilton@gmail.com know by Wednesday, October 29th, if you can come.

SAVE THE DATE OF SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14TH!!

DAVID SNYDER, WILL GIVE A LECTURE ON FRUIT TREES.
MORE INFORMATION ON THIS WILL FOLLOW!!

CAMPFIRE STORYTIME, NOVEMBER 11th FROM 4:30-6pm

Bring out the whole family to enjoy a night in the garden beside a campfire and enjoy the telling of stories from across the world. There will also be singing and crafting. Dress warmly, event will be outside.
Feel free to contact Renee Costanzo (renee.costanzo@chicagoparkdistrict.com) if you have questions.

CCGA Members Meeting
2015-10-28 18:00 - 20:00 | Garfield Park Conservatory, 300 N. Central Park Ave. , Chicago, IL, United States
Save the date for the next CCGA meeting where you can network with other gardeners as you share gardening ideas, information and even resources. The Spring Conference will be discussed and plans made. Come Talk Garden!

Kilbourn Park Organic Greenhouse - Putting Gardens to Bed
2015-10-24 13:00 - 15:00 | Kilbourn Park Organic Greenhouse, 3501 N. Kilbourn, Chicago, IL, 60641, United States

Children's Harvest Festival / Festival Anual de la Cosecha para los Niños
2015-10-24 12:00 - 15:00 | El Paseo Community Garden, 966 W. 21st St, Chicago, IL, United States
FREE event this Saturday for our Annual Fall Children’s Harvest Festival from 12pm to 3pm! El Paseo Community Garden at 966 W. 21st St.
Join us for Pumpkin painting, games, pinata, prizes, potluck and much more! Please wear your costumes and bring a dish to share!
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Un evento GRATIS este sábado para nuestro Festival anual de la Cosecha para los niños 12 p.m.-3 p.m.! El Paseo Jardín Comunitario en 966 W. 21st St.
Vengan para pintar calabazas, juegos, piñata, premios, convivo/potluck y mucho más! Por favor, ponganse sus disfraces y traigan un platillo para compartir!

Bountiful Bench Unveiling Ceremony
2015-10-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Bucktown Green, 1716 N Hoyne Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Bucktown Community Organization (BCO)
presents
THE INTALLATION OF AN ORIGINAL BRONZE SCULPTURE BY
ChrisTina Murphy
join us for the
UNVEILING CEREMONY
Installation Sponsored by Bucktown Community Organization
For inquiries please contact Rock Art Studio:
(773) 216-7614 / rockartstudio@yahoo.com

Community Gardens Take Action Against Hunger
2015-10-16 09:30 - 13:00 | Broadway Armory Park, 5713 N. Broadway , Chicago, IL, 60660, United States
Symposium on World Food Day
What can community gardens do to address fresh produce access in their neighborhoods? Join us to share best practices and resources among community gardens, food pantries and soup kitchens for donating and distributing food.
Who should attend? Anyone interested in connecting community gardens to food pantries. Join us if you are interested in: becoming part of a community garden, organizing a donation program from your current community garden, improving your garden’s current donation program, or if you are a pantry interested in accessing fresh produce grown in your neighborhood.
Schedule:
9:30-10:00am Registration
10:00-10:45am Panel Discussion
10:45-11:00am Break
11:00am-Noon Breakout Sessions and Resource Sharing
Noon-1pm Communal lunch sponsored by Chipotle Mexican Grill

Hay Bales available
2015-10-01 08:00 - 11:55 | Fulton Street Flower and Vegetable Garden, Chicago, IL, United States
We have some hay bales available for pick up tomorrow Thursday October 1st Until around 12:00 noon. Please call Angie T. 773-851-3162

Pilsen Urban Agriculture Field Day
2015-09-27 11:00 - 15:00 | IL
Join us as we tour Pilsen urban agriculture sites. Community members will be on hand to discuss practices that can be applied to your growing site!
11:00AM: Meet at Xochiquetzal Peace Garden – 1901 W. 23rd St. – Learn more about school gardening at this site connected to Whittier School. Prepare to get dirty while we help with a volunteer project.
1:00PM: El Paseo Community Garden – 966 W. 21st St. – Fall is approaching! Learn about season extension during a workshop offered by El Paseo’s leadership team.
Free and open to all!
Please bring a sack lunch.

Southside Perennial Distribution - Saturday, September 26, 2015
2015-09-26 10:00 - 14:00 | Embassy Church, 5848 S. Princeton, Chicago, IL, 60621, 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 Community Garden
401 S. Central Park, Chicago – West
North Park VILLAGE Nature Center
5801 N. Pulaski Road, Chicago – North
Embassy Church
5848 S. Princeton Avenue, Chicago – South
On Friday, September25, we need volunteers to SORT PLANTS at each of the three locations, and to DISTRIBUTE PLANTS on Friday morning, 09/25/15, at the West location, and Saturday morning, 09/26/15, at the North and South locations.
To volunteer, please contact:
Ellen Newcomer (ecnewcomer334@gmail.com) – West
Julie Samuels (jsamuels1966@gmail.com) – North
Pat Jackson (patjackson56@gmail.com) – South
(Note: Volunteers who are representing a community garden will have the opportunity to load their allotment of perennials before the general distribution begins.)
Perennial Plant DISTRIBUTION Information
West Perennial Distribution (New Horizons): Friday, September 25 (ONLY)
North Perennial Distribution (North Park Village): Saturday, September 26 (ONLY)
South Perennial Distribution (Embassy Church): Saturday, September 26 (ONLY)
Each Chicago Community Garden may register for ONE of the above three locations by emailing the following information to mamie@uic.edu:
• Name and Address of community garden
• Name of person who will pick up plants
There is a $5.00 registration fee per garden.
Questions? Contact Mamie Gray, mamie@uic.edu.

Northside Perennial Distribution - Saturday, September 26, 2015
2015-09-26 10:00 - 14:00 | North Park Village Nature Center, 5801 N. Pulaski Road, Chicago, IL, 60646, United States

Westside Perennial Distribution - Friday, September 25, 2015
2015-09-25 10:00 - 14:00 | New Horizons Community Garden, 401 S. Central Park, Chicago, IL, 60624, United States

CCGA Membership Meeting - Wednesday, September 23rd - 5:30pm
2015-09-23 17:30 - 19:30 | Chicago Public Library Bee Branch, 3647 South State Street, Chicago, IL, 60609, United States

2015 Growing Food and Justice for All Gathering
2015-09-23 - 2015-09-25 | IL
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 knowledge with partners from across the country.
Event Details
Buy Tickets Here – Limited Scholarships Available

Community Tomato Tasting and Seed Saving Demonstration
2015-09-19 14:00 - 16:00 | Global Garden, 2974 W. Lawrence Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, 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 to share for a tasting and discover new favorites! We’ll show you how to collect and ferment seeds from tomatoes at the tasting for planting next year, and get deep into discussion on tomato reproduction for high-quality seed.

Don’t have tomatoes? No problem! We’ll have different varieties on hand to share.

Windy City Harvest: Home-Scale Aquaponics
2015-09-19 09:00 - 13:00 | Chicago Botanic Garden, 1000 Lake Cook Rd, Glencoe, IL, 60022, United States
Arturo Velasquez Institute Greenhouse
Andy McGhee, Windy City Harvest aquaponics coordinator

Yoga in the Garden at Vedgewater
2015-09-13 09:00 - 10:00 | 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 back, etc). This class is open to students of all levels, no previous yoga experience required!

Tomato Fest
2015-09-12 12:00 - 16:00 | Kilbourn Park Organic Greenhouse, 3501 N. Kilbourn, Chicago, IL, 60641, 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 on hand to highlight the many ways we can prepare and preserve a taste of summer throughout the year.
Join us for a day full of Tomato Love, including a special guest lecture by Jennifer Jordan, author of Edible Memory: The Lure of Heirloom Tomatoes and Other Forgotten Foods, as well as tours, tastings, a cookbook swap, workshops, demos, a salsa dance class and a homemade salsa contest!
This event is free and open to the public!

What's Happening in the Garden? - Peterson Garden Project
2015-09-12 11:00 - 12:00 | Global Garden, 2974 W. Lawrence Ave., Chicago, IL, 60625, 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 them
-pulling spent plants and tidying
-what to plant now for a fall harvest

September Bike Ride: We Ride Juntos
2015-09-09 18:00 - 21:00 | 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 in both communities.
This ride is open to everyone regardless of biking skills or age.

Windy City Harvest: Excel for Small Farm Crop Planning
2015-08-29 08:00 - 17:00 | Chicago Botanic Garden, 1000 Lake Cook Rd, Glencoe, IL, 60022, 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 used for a ¼-1-acre farm site will be provided. Students will learn how to calculate: planting dates, spacing, row feet, seeds needed and also how to project harvest dates with yield estimates. Small Farm Crop Planning is recommended as a prerequisite to this course.

Ravinia in the Garden - Saturday August 22nd, 2015
2015-08-22 17:00 - 21:00 | Kuumba Tre-Ahm Community Garden., 2908 W. Warren Blvd., Chicago, IL 60612, Chicago, IL, 60612, United States
“RAVINIA IN THE GARDEN”
Join us as we celebrate a productive 4th Season. Network with friends and learn about new additions to the garden landscape. Enjoy live entertainment and delicious food. Support our first Fundraiser at Kuumba Tre-Ahm Community Garden. Date: Saturday, August 22, 2015 Time: 5:00 pm until 9:00 pm (rain or shine) Place: 2908 W. Warren Blvd., Chicago, IL 60612 Cost: $20 cash per person (No checks please) RSVP: totouchalifeinc@yahoo.com
ENTERTAINMENT BY THE DAVE JORDAN QUARTET & PATRICK MARTIN, SINGER/GUITARIST ~Refreshments ~ great food, including dishes prepared from fresh garden produce
Bring your lawn chair for seating & BYOB Silent Auction All proceeds benefit To Touch A Life, Inc. 501(c)(3)

Third Annual Gardens of Englewood Tour - Saturday August 22nd, 2015
2015-08-22 10:00 - 15:00 | Sherwood Peace Association, 6101 South Princeton Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60621, United States

LVEJO Sustainability Dinner
2015-08-14 18:00 - 22:00 | Chicago Cafe Banquet Hall, 2600 W 35th St, 3rd Floor, Chicago, IL, United States
We are celebrating our Environmental Justice victories!
Please join LVEJO on August 14, 2015 to celebrate the opening of La Villita Park, the 3rd anniversary of Chicago Coal Power Plants closure, access to the 31st street bus and many more! We look forward to sharing our future goals and projects in place for a sustainable La Villita.
Fundraiser Dinner To Benefit:

LVEJO’s Youth Leadership Development and Environmental Stewardship Programs
Semillas de Justicia Community Garden
Equitable Community Redevelopment of the former Crawford Coal Power plant, decommissioned 31st BNSF rail line, and the 31st Collateral Channel

Program:

6 pm: Registration & Networking
7 pm: Program & Presentation
8 pm: Nine-course Mexican comfort food buffet dinner
9 pm: Cumbia music and dancing, raffle, silent auction

Suggested Donation: $50 individual*
For more information email events@lvejo.org or call at (312) 857-6626
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*Your donation may be tax deductible under law. Please consult your tax advisor
