<div dir="auto">May,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Lorraine</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 11, 2022, 3:52 PM M Toy <<a href="mailto:mtoy.usa@gmail.com">mtoy.usa@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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</div><div>.</div><div>Unfortunately, I'm not expecting to be more able/mobile until Fall. </div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>May</div><div><br></div><div><div>The content of this email is confidential and intended for the recipient specified in message only. Do not share any part of this message with any third party, without a written consent of the sender. If you received this message by mistake, please reply to this message and follow with its deletion, so that we can ensure such a mistake does not occur again.</div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 11:01 AM Lorraine Kells via Advocacy-outreach <<a href="mailto:advocacy-outreach@chicagocommunitygardens.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">advocacy-outreach@chicagocommunitygardens.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Julie,<div><br></div><div>I've included a few more people on this thread to clarify what we are attempting.</div><div><br></div><div>First, I have already contacted Brian Ortega of Acero Schools and Cheryl Foster<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> of </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">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. </font></span></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">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</font></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="http://chicagocommunitygardens.org/starting-a-community-garden/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://chicagocommunitygardens.org/starting-a-community-garden/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">You can also send it to them as a pdf which is attached to this email</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font face="arial, sans-serif">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.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Here again is the contact information for the two requests:</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Brian Ortega, Community Affairs and Advocacy Manager</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Acero Schools</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><a href="mailto:bortega@aceroschools.org" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">bortega@aceroschools.org</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font face="arial, sans-serif">872 202 4964</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Cheryl Ferguson-Foster</span><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Antioch MB Church of Chicago</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">6248 S Stewart Ave, Chicago, IL 60621</span><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> <a href="mailto:cfergusonfoster@yahoo.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">cfergusonfoster@yahoo.com</a></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font face="arial, sans-serif">312-375-7860</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Special Note:</b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">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. </span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 9:59 AM Julie Samuels <<a href="mailto:jsamuels1966@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">jsamuels1966@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi, Lorraine, Marsha and May,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">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:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">1. Resources</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">2. DIY Guide<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">3. Starting A Community Garden </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> 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. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Where do we meet in the Caldwell Woods and what time? I can contact Mr. Ortega unless someone else would like to do that.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Julie</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 11:27 AM Lorraine Kells <<a href="mailto:lxkells@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">lxkells@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Hello Julie and Marsha and May,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Lorraine</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Brian Ortega via Communications</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, Mar 6, 2022, 10:14 PM<br>Subject: [Communications] Partnership Inquiry<br>To: <<a href="mailto:communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>I can be reached here or at (872) 202-4964.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you!</div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite" style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align:center"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align:center"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="0" style="width:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr style="height:34.15pt"><td width="156" style="width:117pt;border-top:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-right:1pt solid rgb(204,0,0);padding:5pt;height:34.15pt"><font size="4"><b>Brian A. 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