Hello Community Gardeners, The CCGA Resources Committee will hold a vegetable seedling distribution on Saturday, May 14, 2016 at the Center for Green Technology, 445 N. Sacramento. More details will follow soon. In the meantime, please tell all your friends…
CCGA volunteer Erik Hernandez, now on the staff of Neighbor Space with this newly awarded Chicago Conservation Corps Leader ID presented April 14 at the 16th Annual Volunteer Recognition Ceremony at the Chicago Academy of Sciences/Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum. This recognition of…
Hello Chicago Community Gardeners! Here is the report from the Resources Committee on its activities in 2015. For the March 2015 Third Annual CCGA Conference, the Resources Committee supplied plant material for the Container Workshop, gathered and distributed gently used tools and other garden…
Saturday April 9, 2016 started with snow and ice on the ground and temperatures in the twenties. But that did not stop community gardeners from coming to the Center for Green Technology to receive spring annuals grown by the CCGA Resources Committee! More than ninety…
Robert and Patricia Hart, wedded Tuesday, April 5, 2016 Congratulations!
The Rebuilding Exchange has just released their spring session workshop schedule. They offer everything from traditional woodworking classes to one-day “Make It Take It” classes. In addition, you can attend various sustainability classes, like Composting 101 and Chickens in the City. For those who are…
What goes better with a Sunday morning than spending time thinking about gardening, plants and meeting new people? Coffee, of course but yes it is the Mike Nowak Show which features a new venue but a familiar time and a lot of old friends. Starting…
Imagine the sight as 250 community gardeners from all over Chicago gathered at the South Shore Cultural Center on March 5th for the 4th CCGA Spring Conference. Inside the inspiring venue where we convened once again to see our friends from down the block or…
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,…
Help Chicago Community Gardens Get Grants – Go Online and Vote! This is easy and we need your help. Seeds Of Change is offering $300,000 in grants to school and community gardens. 21 Chicago projects are in the running for an infusion of $10,000 or…