<div dir="ltr">Hello Brian and Cheryl and our Advocacy and Outreach Team,<div><br></div><div>We apologize for the short notice, but we'd love to have a zoom call in with you two and any of your garden building team. Cheryl, we spoke with Greg Miller in Sept of 2020 when the State of Illinois piloted a program with COVID funds.  If you'd like to have him join us, please feel free.  We have a CCGA zoom room reserved for a call with you Tuesday, March15 at 5pm.  You will find the link at the end of this email</div><div><br></div><div>You'll meet and speak with some of us from both the Education team and the Advocacy and Outreach team. In advance of the virtual meeting I've attached our "Basic Steps to Starting a Garden.  This document was created by Julie Samuels who will be on the call.  It would be helpful if you could look through this document before Tuesday.  If you are unable to make this meetup, you can email questions or concerns to us.</div><div><br></div><div>If it is easier to share a link to the manual, it is also on our website at</div><div> <a href="http://chicagocommunitygardens.org/starting-a-community-garden/" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(5,99,193)">http://chicagocommunitygardens.org/starting-a-community-garden/</a></div><div><br></div><div>You can join our meeting with this information</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82680460687?pwd=YlJjbFdDUjVwMWp4Sm5FbytrUjhiUT09" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82680460687?pwd=YlJjbFdDUjVwMWp4Sm5FbytrUjhiUT09</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:rgb(38,40,42)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="">Passcode: 412128</font></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;font-size:12pt;font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:rgb(38,40,42)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="">Regards,</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:rgb(38,40,42)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="">Lorraine</font></span></p></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>