Norwood Park Backyard Plant Sale & Sustainable Garden Tour 🌱
2025-05-03 10:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | My Clever Garden Chicago, 5837 N Newark Ave Chicago, IL, Chicago, IL, 60631-3142, United States
Discover a hidden gem in historic Norwood Park! This unique backyard plant sale offers vegetables, flowers, and herbs grown sustainably in a thriving urban garden with a passive solar greenhouse and perennial beds.
📍 Location: 5837 N Newark Ave, Chicago
💰 Payment: Cash, Venmo, or Zelle
Everything is grown sustainably and chemical-free right here in our backyard. This is more than just a plant sale, it’s a mini garden tour where you can explore how a small urban space can become a thriving backyard grocery store.
✨ Come for the plants, stay for the inspiration!

Garden-Ready Yard Plant Sale
2025-05-10 10:00 - 2025-05-11 15:00 | My Clever Garden Chicago, 5837 N Newark Ave Chicago, IL, Chicago, IL, 60631-3142, United States
Join us for a special backyard plant sale in the heart of historic Norwood Park! Not only can you pick up vibrant, homegrown plants, but you’ll also get a rare chance to explore a sustainable urban garden—including a passive solar greenhouse and lush perennial gardens.
📍 Location: Norwood Park, Chicago
📅 Date & Time: Saturday May 10th & Sunday May 11th from 10-3pm daily
💰 Payment: Cash, Venmo, Zelle
What’s Available?
🌿 Vegetable Seedlings – Strong, locally grown starts for your edible garden!
🌸 Flowering Plants – Bring beauty to your space with pollinator-friendly blooms!
🌱 Fresh Herbs – Perfect for your kitchen or container garden!
Everything is grown sustainably and chemical-free right here in my backyard. This is more than just a plant sale—it’s a mini garden tour where you can explore how a small urban space can become a thriving backyard grocery store.
Come for the plants, stay for the garden inspiration!

Black Farmer Lobby Day - Springfield
2025-05-14 08:00 - 14:00 | IL
Black Farmers Lobby Day
May 14th, 2025
8 am – 2 pm
in Springfield, State Capitol.
This is an important meeting day especially for Black Farmers, Growers and or in Food Space across Illinois, where they’ll be given opportunity to come meet and lobby in person, their own personal concerns and needs to Illinois State lawmakers themselves in regards to farming problems, issues that need fixing or help with.
CALL TO ACTION
Since Chicago Community Gardeners Association is an essential Farmer, Grower or Food Producer in the Agriculture food space of Illinois, inviting you and your vital network of Farmers, Growers and Food producers to Kindly do following:

Register for Black Farmers Lobby Day
Share Lobby Day Info within your own network of Farmers, Growers, Food Producer
Attend and be part of Black Farmers Lobby Day May 14th, 2025.
Transportation support may be available upon request.
For more info on Black Farmers Lobby Day event and happenings itself, feel free to Contact Rep. Harper’s own Office on; PH: 773-925-6580 or Email: repsonyaharper@gmail.com

May Lunch & Grow: Conversations with Conservationists and Gardeners
2025-05-14 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
May Lunch & Grow: Conversations with Conservationists and Gardeners Lunch & Grow: Conversations with Conservationists and Gardeners

Chicago Grows Food is hosting a monthly event that will be a space to learn from an expert about what to focus on each month in your garden. Additionally, this is an opportunity to engage and grow with the gardening community. Come with questions or listen to others. Either way we will be here to chat.us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/whc9WmHzTCuwvXWyuhcXnQ

May CCGA Coordinating Meeting
2025-05-20 18:00 - 19:00 | IL
Please join us for our monthly coordinating meeting. Representatives from all the working groups come together to coordinate our actions. All community gardeners and supporters are invited to attend.
CCGA coordinating meetings are held on the 3rd Tuesday of the month, except for July & August.
The May 20 Coordinating Meeting will be hybrid on Zoom and in person at Chicago Public Library – Richard M Daley branch, 733 N Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL 60612 from 6 – 7 pm.
To Join Virtually:
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Meeting ID: 826 8046 0687
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Dial in number: 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
Meeting ID: 826 8046 0687
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If you want to attend the coordinating meeting and are not already a member of one of the CCGA working groups, please send an email to: communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org and request to join the monthly meetings.
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 by year.

NRCS Field Day - Lynwood
2025-05-20 18:00 - 20:00 | IL
Tuesday May 20, 6 – 8 pm
Location:
Willowthorne
2701 Glenwood Dyer Rd, Lynwood, IL 60411

Reimbursable conservation practices like Micro-Irrigation Water Management Planning, Forestry Management Planning, Conservation Cover Planting and High Tunnels are now available to small scale urban growers.

Extension educators, along with Farmers Gosia and Mike , will discuss the conservation practices implemented on Willowthorne’s U pick blueberry farm; and speak of their contract experience with the NRCS program. They’ll discuss

Blueberry Bush care/maintenance, pruning
the importance of Maintaining other people’s work with love and care
Soil pH and Fertility

We’re thrilled to welcome Joseph Bridges and Alicia Lozano, the USDA NRCS Soil Conservationists for Cook County who will be on site to meet farmers and answer your questions about applying for these reimbursement programs.
Please note that all attendees will need to sign a liability waiver upon arrival, and children under 5 are not permitted.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Jesse Schaffer at jschaff@illinois.edu or 312-585-9128
NRCS Field Day Willowthorne Flyer 5.20.25
