[Advocacy-outreach] Fwd: [Communications] Starting a Community Garden

[Lorraine Kells]

Hello all,

It's not surprising that the pandemic shifted everything we knew and a
surge in gardening happened, offering a balm; it helped to keep people from
worry and helped them become more resilient. There's email to CCGA
Communcations and Education with requests for help starting new community
gardens in Chicago. We will all likely need to pitch in if the requests
keep coming this fast.  Julie wrote a helpful manual on how to start a
garden and it's on our website
http://chicagocommunitygardens.org/starting-a-community-garden/. It
should be easier to find rather than having to start at the top and scroll
from Resources there down to DIY Guides to find it. .Do we need a uniform
first response to these emails to gather more information, using some of
the questions in Julie's guide to establish common ground?  These new
gardens will need resources, seeds, soil, lumber...etc. Anyone interested
in working on a draft from Julie's guide?

It strikes me as the very purpose of Advocacy and Outreach to help these
folks get started, but the requests aren't going to them. Communications
can forward them to A&O, but I think this is a multi team response.  Hope
you agree.

Lorraine


On Mon, Mar 7, 2022, 12:33 PM Hermitage Street Community garden via
Communications <communications at chicagocommunitygardens.org> wrote:

> Hello ALL,
> I received the following communique from a church community ORG that is
> interested in starting a community garden program.
> Please reach out if able to assist them.
>
> Cordia Pugh
> Program Director
> Hermitage Community Gardens
> 5647 S Honore street
> Chicago, IL 60636
> Phone: (773) 245-3017
> Email: hermitagestreetcommunitygarden at gmail.com
>
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2022, 1:36 PM Cheryl Ferguson-Foster <
> cfergusonfoster at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Good afternoon,
>> This email is for Cordia Pugh.
>> My name is Cheryl Foster and I'm a member of the Antioch MB Church of
>> Chicago located at 450 W. Englewood Ave. (63rd and Stewart).
>> As per our conversation on Feb. 28, 22, our church ministries are
>> interested in starting a community garden at 62nd and Normal in the church
>> owned vacant lot there (I apologize for giving an incorrect address
>> initially). We want to include the block club in the planning and
>> maintenance as well.
>>
>> My contact information as requested is:
>> Cheryl Foster
>> email- cfergusonfoster at yahoo.com
>> 312-375-7860
>>
>> Thank you so much, I look forward to speaking with you.
>> Sincerely, Cheryl Foster
>>
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