[Advocacy-outreach] [Communications] Partnership Inquiry

Fri Mar 11 19:54:24 CST 2022

Totally agree. Site visits very important

On Fri, Mar 11, 2022, 6:29 PM Lorraine Kells via Advocacy-outreach <
advocacy-outreach at chicagocommunitygardens.org> wrote:

> May,
>
> Thank for bringing this concern to the discussion. It's why I included
> you. Your thinking is always spot on. Gina and Mamie too,  they made the
> site visits with you in 2020, and hopefully they will be on board again and
> can meet the garden leaders in this zoom meeting.
>
> Lorraine
>
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2022, 3:52 PM M Toy <mtoy.usa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I think that some of new gardens will also need on-site help as well on
>> the technical end to help design and layout the garden.  With the church
>> groups for the State of IL, I was able to drive out and help with that.
>> Even some of the churches who had gardens already, there were a lot of
>> suggestions we could have offered to help improve production.  It's hard to
>> get a perspective/evaluate until you do an onsite visit.
>>
>> The design should also need to match what the goal of each community
>> garden is.  For the churches, it was to produce as much harvest as possible
>> to distribute to the community.  They build community with the volunteers
>> and youth who come to help in the garden.   The design would be different
>> if it's an allocation garden
>> .
>> Unfortunately, I'm not expecting to be more able/mobile until Fall.
>>
>> May
>>
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>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 11:01 AM Lorraine Kells via Advocacy-outreach <
>> advocacy-outreach at chicagocommunitygardens.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Julie,
>>>
>>> I've included a few more people on this thread to clarify what we are
>>> attempting.
>>>
>>> First,  I have already contacted Brian Ortega of Acero Schools and
>>> Cheryl Foster of Antioch MB Church of Chicago located at 450 W.
>>> Englewood Ave. (63rd and Stewart).  These are the persons requesting help
>>> with starting a community garden.  My initial contact (as Education and
>>> Communications team) was to welcome their inquiry and let them know someone
>>> from Advocacy & Outreach would be in touch. (I hope this is going to be the
>>> case as A&O's purpose is just this)  I also sent them contact information
>>> for GreenCorps and GreenCorps + Terma Firma, which is more aligned with
>>> community gardens.
>>>
>>> Admittedly the search for Julie's "Steps to Starting a Community Garden"
>>> is not easy to find, so Julie or all of you on A&O, please just communicate
>>> warmly, and copy and send the link at the end of this paragraph.  In
>>> general practice, a manual is made available on-line, but there is usually
>>> a support contact for questions. Please, someone from A&O be that person.
>>> Julie, you created the manual so you are the best support person for
>>> contact. Amy is eager to fix the issues with access on our website, but
>>> after the conference. She is on this email thread.  Here is the link
>>>
>>> http://chicagocommunitygardens.org/starting-a-community-garden/
>>>
>>>
>>> You can also send it to them as a pdf which is attached to this email
>>>
>>>
>>> We don't have funds set aside for photocopying without approval from
>>> Angela as I understand it, nor do I think we should print this out when it
>>> can be read on-line and downloaded and printed by those making the request,
>>> if they choose.  We have limited copy availability at NeighborSpace but
>>> should be reluctant to take too much advantage of this and the photocopier
>>> is pretty much always in use by GreenCorps.
>>>
>>>
>>> Here again is the contact information for the two requests:
>>>
>>>
>>> Brian Ortega, Community Affairs and  Advocacy Manager
>>>
>>> Acero Schools
>>>
>>> bortega at aceroschools.org
>>>
>>> 872 202 4964
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheryl Ferguson-Foster
>>>
>>> Antioch MB Church of Chicago
>>>
>>> 6248 S Stewart Ave, Chicago, IL 60621
>>>
>>>  cfergusonfoster at yahoo.com
>>>
>>> 312-375-7860
>>>
>>>
>>> *Special Note:*
>>>
>>> This church was one on the list of potential awardees for the State of
>>> Illinois COVID funds to start a garden in 2020. Greg Miller of the same
>>> church participated in a WebEx virtual meeting with us; however they were
>>> not one of the final churches to receive funds., so they are reaching out
>>> again.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 9:59 AM Julie Samuels <jsamuels1966 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, Lorraine, Marsha and May,
>>>> I have one suggestion and that would be to provide copies of our Basic
>>>> Steps to Starting a Garden Manuals after talking to people who are
>>>> interested in doing that.  I found it very hard to find it and open it on
>>>> our website.  So we could just bring a manual sample or two and provide
>>>> folks with how to open, find and see the manual to unload and copy it??
>>>> Also I'm going to see if I could just provide little printed  copies of the
>>>> "link" that they can use to find it on the site.   These are the steps
>>>> listed on the site:
>>>> 1. Resources
>>>> 2. DIY Guide
>>>> 3. Starting A Community Garden
>>>>  I think we would start by hearing what the people there would like to
>>>> do and know and chat a while to see what they would need and what we can
>>>> suggest they do showing them the manual.
>>>> Where do we  meet in the Caldwell Woods and what time?   I can contact
>>>> Mr. Ortega unless someone else would like to do that.
>>>>
>>>> Julie
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 11:27 AM Lorraine Kells <lxkells at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello Julie and Marsha and May,
>>>>>
>>>>> This forwarded request came to the  Communications team, but it falls
>>>>> within the stated purpose of Advocacy & Outreach, so if you will please get
>>>>> started with these folks, the rest of us will fall in line.
>>>>>
>>>>> Gina, Mamie and May helped a church community garden "expand" ie get
>>>>> started, when CCGA joined in to assist with a State of Illinois covid grant
>>>>> to faith based institutions. We know how to do this, but it takes A&O to
>>>>> get theses folks started, please.
>>>>>
>>>>> Lorraine
>>>>>
>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>>>>> From: Brian Ortega via Communications <
>>>>> communications at chicagocommunitygardens.org>
>>>>> Date: Sun, Mar 6, 2022, 10:14 PM
>>>>> Subject: [Communications] Partnership Inquiry
>>>>> To: <communications at chicagocommunitygardens.org>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> My name is Brian Ortega and I oversee community relations for Acero
>>>>> Schools. I wanted to see if I could connect with someone at CCGA. There is
>>>>> interest within our network to start a community garden and I would like
>>>>> some guidance on how to move forward with this idea.
>>>>>
>>>>> I can be reached here or at (872) 202-4964.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you!
>>>>>
>>>>> *Brian A. Ortega*
>>>>> Community Affairs & Advocacy Manager
>>>>> (872) 202-4964
>>>>> bortega at aceroschools.org
>>>>>
>>>>> "Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can
>>>>> catch excellence."
>>>>> -Vince Lombardi
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