[Communications] Fwd: CCGA 8th Annual Conference Registration is Now Open • Indoor Plant Distribution • Watch out for Jumping Worms!

Wed Feb 12 12:27:05 CST 2020

No I have not replied.  The school has some club that does rescue of
animals although this wouldn't quite quality.  I'm not in favor if
initiating this kind of exchange at the conference. We may be open then to
people offering chickens and goats, although it might sound extreme, I'd
rather she made he exchange before the conference.  Do not want to take a
bucket of sick or starving worms.  Don't know this person.

Maybe we can offer it on Facebook and let the persons interested contact
each other?  O does Julie want them In any case let;s not wait until the
conference.

L

On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 11:05 AM Amy Olson via Communications <
communications at chicagocommunitygardens.org> wrote:

> Did anyone reply to MJ? Maybe she could have a table with the vendors and
> give them away at the conference?
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From: *"mj garnier. via Communications" <
> communications at chicagocommunitygardens.org>
> *Subject: **Re: [Communications] CCGA 8th Annual Conference Registration
> is Now Open • Indoor Plant Distribution • Watch out for Jumping Worms!*
> *Date: *February 11, 2020 at 10:36:47 PM CST
> *To: *CCGA <info at chicagocommunitygardens.org>
> *Reply-To: *"mj garnier." <reinrag6 at gmail.com>
>
> I have a superfluidity of composting worms I’d love to give away.  Ideas?
> MJ Garnier
>
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 2:14 PM CCGA <info at chicagocommunitygardens.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Join us for a Distribution of Indoor Plants  • Registration is open for
>> the CCGA 8th Annual Gardeners' Conference  •  Jumping Worms - Beware!
>> View this email in your browser
>> <https://mailchi.mp/1016d479d3e5/ccga-8th-annual-gardeners-conference-register?e=9d74fd70ff>
>>
>> *News for Community Gardeners*
>> *"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
>> change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."*
>> - Margaret Mead
>> *Hello Community Gardeners!*
>>
>> Many spent the early weeks of the new year reflecting on the year past,
>> but we are gardeners; we are plant people. We more often look forward than
>> back. We’ve already torn one page off a calendar and are eager to tear the
>> pages until the first signs of Spring, until we can garden again to “plant
>> dreams, pull weeds, and grow a happy life."
>>
>> Connection with plants and the environment has been an integral part of
>> human culture. The process of making connections starts at an early age in
>> life, even without conscious thought. Connection encompasses feelings of
>> belonging that give us a sense of place, of identification, and of
>> inspiration. This year’s theme, *Connections through Gardening: Plants,
>> People and the Environment,* aims to explore and celebrate the
>> interconnectedness of our shared garden work and to foster relationships
>> and conversations that shape and support best practices for sustainable
>> living and growing in Chicago. We hope you will join us on March 21st to
>> discover deeper connections in your own communities!
>> *Conference Registration is Open!*
>>
>> We're excited to invite you to our 8th Annual Conference on Saturday,
>> March 21 at light-filled Whitney Young High School on the Near West Side.
>> Check the CCGA web site
>> <https://chicagocommunitygardens.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7f2904daf2a26a891c68f8bb0&id=9d99045c95&e=9d74fd70ff>
>> and follow us on Facebook for all the details.
>>
>>
>> *Workshops*
>> We saw our theme come alive in many wonderful ways as we read through the
>> proposals we received for conference workshops this year. Thank you to all
>> of you who submitted proposals. To all past attendees: we heard you! This
>> year’s workshops are longer, giving attendees more time for Q&A with the
>> presenters.
>>
>> *Session 1 - 10:00am - 11:15am*
>>
>>    - WK1: Técnicas eficaces para la jardinera ecológica en pequeños
>>    espacios (Spanish only)
>>    - WK2: What does the environment have to do with my health?
>>    - WK3: Treehuggers Unite!  Let’s plant and protect our trees!
>>    - WK4: Sharing Notes:  Four Experienced Community Gardeners Talk
>>    About Creating and Perpetuating a Community Garden
>>    - WK5: Yard Sharing; Reimagining Community Gardening, Private Space,
>>    and Cultivating Deeper Roots for Climate Resilient Communities
>>    - WK6: Health and Wellbeing in our Community Gardens and Beyond:
>>    Insights from Surveys and Practice
>>
>> *Session 2 - 11:30am - 12:45pm*
>>
>>    - WK7: Creciendo Comunidad: Invitando interacción desde la
>>    perspectiva de Permacultura / Growing Community: Inviting Interaction
>>    through a Permaculture Lens (English/Spanish)
>>    - WK8: Mapping Soil Lead in Chicago and Understanding it’s Potential
>>    Uptake by Vegetables
>>    - WK9: Using Traditions to Build Our Gardens and Our Community
>>    - WK10: Production Planning for Community Garden Systems
>>    - WK11: Birds as Connectors to Nearby Nature (Great for kids!)
>>    - WK12: The Offers & Needs Market
>>
>> Register for the conference
>> <https://chicagocommunitygardens.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7f2904daf2a26a891c68f8bb0&id=d868437b9a&e=9d74fd70ff>
>>
>>
>> *Growing With Purpose *
>> *Keynote Address by Robert Nevel*
>> Robert is an architect, urban farmer and pioneer in the food and eco
>> justice movement. He is a former member of the Board of Advocates for Urban
>> Agriculture, a current member of AUA’s Leadership Council and a past
>> president of KAM Isaiah Israel Congregation. In 2009, he founded the award
>> winning, nationally recognized Food Justice and Sustainability Program at
>> KAMII. The program is focused on transforming unproductive urban spaces
>> into micro-farms and food forests, improving access to fresh food, teaching
>> urban agriculture and sustainability skills and advocating for healthy food
>> systems and responsible energy, land and water use. He'll be speaking
>> during lunch about his experiences and "growing with purpose."
>>
>>
>> *Educational Table for Kids*
>> The CCGA Education Committee is pleased to again host an educational
>> table for kids! We’ll have fun activities and kids will also receive books
>> (some in Spanish) to learn about bugs, gardening, harvesting rain, and
>> being green. Each child will also receive a special gardening kit to take
>> home!
>>
>> *Free on-site soil heavy metal screening at the conference!*
>> Bring soil directly from your garden to be tested on-the-spot for heavy
>> metal contamination! We're excited once again to host Dr. Andrew Margenot
>> from the University of Illinois Department of Crop Sciences in
>> collaboration with University of Illinois Extension to offer a free soil
>> screening at the conference! Your soil must be dry to test, so be sure to
>> collect it soon.
>>
>> *Sometimes Questions are More Important than Answers*
>>
>> New this year is a panel discussion on Health and Wellbeing in our
>> Community Gardens and Beyond: Insights from Surveys and Practice. For our
>> panel of professional researchers and medical practitioners, your questions
>> are as important to them as their answers are important to you. They will
>> present information in discussion format about health and wellness as
>> surveyed in Chicago’s community gardens. Each of the panelists and our
>> moderator will give a professional and personal take on the statement that
>> gardening *does* provide substantial health benefits to those who
>> garden. Take a minute then to think about what you’d like to learn from
>> this panel of experts. What would you like to ask? You can ask it now in
>> this informal survey. What do you want to know? For those of you shy about
>> asking questions in “public” this is a good time to put your thoughts into
>> words and ask! Send your questions to Lorraine at lxkells at gmail.com
>>
>> Who is on this panel? Two of the panelist’s researchers, Professors
>> Howard Rosing and Molly Doane, will draw from their broader studies in
>> health, wellbeing, and social and behavioral issues, and from their recent
>> surveys of Chicago’s community gardens to provide you with insights and
>> some interesting facts about community gardening. Dr. Miller and Dr. Rowin
>> will draw from their practices, to give community gardeners information
>> about personal and community health and vitality. Vincent Gomez completes
>> the panel, drawing on people-plant wellness concepts.
>> *Share photos of your garden*
>> Show off your garden! Each year we present a slideshow of Chicago's
>> community gardens during lunch. Please send photos via email to photos at
>> chicagocommunitygardens dot org.
>>
>> *Join our Conference Support Team*
>> We are looking for people to help out at the conference! Support Team
>> members receive a $5.00 discount from general registration which includes
>> workshops, breakfast, and lunch. Support Team members who don't
>> attend workshops pay $15 for lunch only. To sign up, select the Support
>> Team option on the main conference registration page.
>>
>> *Become an exhibitor*
>> You're invited to share your valuable knowledge, resources and skills
>> with Chicago’s community gardeners at our annual conference where up to 250
>> community gardeners attend to network, attend workshops, and actively visit
>> the tables of our exhibitors. There are still a limited number of exhibitor
>> tables available! For an application, please contact communications at
>> chicagocommunitygardens dot org.
>> *Upcoming CCGA Resources Committee Events *
>>
>> *Indoor Plant Distribution on February 22*
>> The Resources Team has been propagating house plants like crazy, and has
>> taken cuttings for community gardeners. There will be a variety of plants
>> available, and many can filter indoor air effectively. *Pothos*, with
>> its heart-shaped leaves, is one of the plants NASA deems an indoor air
>> cleaner. This event will take place at 9:30am at the Hatchery Chicago, at 135
>> North Kedzie
>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/135+North+Kedzie?entry=gmail&source=g>.
>> Follow us on Facebook for more details!
>>
>> *Getting Ready for Growing Vegetables Talk & Tool Distribution on March 7*
>> Stay tuned for more details about a tool distribution at the CCGT, at 445
>> N. Sacramento, 2nd floor
>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/445+N.+Sacramento,+2nd+floor?entry=gmail&source=g>
>> classroom, which will follow a talk by Dan Gibbs on "Getting Ready for
>> Growing Vegetables." Dan works with the Austin Green Team, where he is
>> president and garden leader. The Austin Green Team converts derelict
>> properties into gardens. Dan is a noted garden educator who works to make
>> local food gardening accessible and easy for families through education,
>> inspiration and ongoing support. Follow CCGA on Facebook for more
>> information and to sign up for this workshop.
>> *Beware of ... Jumping Worms?*
>>
>> There is a new pest in Illinois. Will you find it in your community
>> garden? We look for earthworms in our gardens as a good sign. Worms help
>> increase the amount of air and water that gets into the soil, and they
>> leave behind castings that are a valuable type of fertilizer. That is
>> rapidly changing; a new invasive and damaging pest may be in your gardens.
>>
>> A local landscape designer described the devastation she has encountered
>> in containers with this detrimental pest this way: “Generally, at the end
>> of the growing season when I remove plants from containers, the roots are
>> woven thickly together making each plant hard to remove. This year, plants
>> easily pulled out of my containers with no soil attached to the roots.” The
>> infestation she found causes the soil to deteriorate to something akin to
>> loose coffee grounds. As the worms fed on the organic matter in the
>> containers, the plant roots no longer had anything to hold onto!
>>
>> Jumping worms, *(Amynthas spp.)* were first identified in our region in
>> 2015 in northern Illinois. These worms are native to East Asia, and they
>> also have been called crazy worms, jumping worms, and snake worms because
>> the worm thrashes wildly when handled or disturbed, and it can shed its
>> tail in defense. The landscape designer we spoke with found these worms in
>> Ravenswood Manor both in the ground and in containers, but she hasn't seen
>> them elsewhere yet.
>>
>> *Adult jumping worms. Photo courtesy of UW Aboretum*
>>
>>
>> Unlike red earthworms, these appear to be grey or brown. Jumping worms do
>> not burrow far into soil – they live on the soil surface in debris and leaf
>> litter. We are told to look for them in our gardens, in mulch, compost,
>> potted plants and other suitable places. You will learn that the cocoons
>> are nearly impossible to find; they are the size of mustard seeds, and
>> although the cold kills adult worms, the cocoons protect them from cold.
>>
>> CCGA community gardeners should start looking for them just as soon as
>> the temperatures consistently rise above freezing. They become most active
>> in June, but we’re not sure the temperatures this winter have been cold
>> enough to kill the worms, and we know the cocoons are not killed by
>> cold. (After the polar vortex at Halloween, our gardener saw plenty of
>> them.) CCGA gardeners must be very, very careful and aware of this threat,
>> and look for their presence in any potted plants that are purchased or
>> shared and in any compost or mulch. Use only compost that you know has been
>> heated to appropriate temperatures and duration following protocols for
>> reducing pathogens. Test your own compost and garden soil with this mix:
>> For every gallon of water mix with 1/3 cup of ground yellow mustard seed
>> and pour slowly into the soil. This will drive any worms to the surface. If
>> you have jumping worms be sure to capture them and to drown them in vinegar
>> or solarize them in a plastic bag before discarding them in the trash. Then
>> report it to your state’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) so that
>> they can track the spread, and absolutely avoid moving plants, compost or
>> soil from your garden.
>>
>> Please read through the information thoroughly on the websites given
>> below. You’ll find Information for identifying the worms as well as
>> recommendations on how to reduce their spread. At this time, there are no
>> controls, organic or otherwise, to kill the worms or their cocoons. The WI
>> DNR is doing some testing this coming year and we hope that their efforts
>> will result in an organic method to rid our gardens of this terrible new
>> pest.
>>
>> For further reading:
>> https://ipm.illinois.edu/first_detector/Jumping_Worm_Handout.pdf
>> <https://chicagocommunitygardens.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7f2904daf2a26a891c68f8bb0&id=bba1c372e0&e=9d74fd70ff>
>> https://dnr.wi.gov/topic/invasives/fact/jumpingworm/index.html
>> <https://chicagocommunitygardens.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7f2904daf2a26a891c68f8bb0&id=98489aaeb3&e=9d74fd70ff>
>>
>> *Upcoming Events*
>>
>> *Click on an event title for more info.*
>>
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>> Farm Facilitator Training
>> <https://chicagocommunitygardens.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7f2904daf2a26a891c68f8bb0&id=656f62fb76&e=9d74fd70ff>
>> February 22 @ 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
>> Farm on Ogden, 3555 Ogden Ave, Chicago,
>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/3555+Ogden+Ave,+Chicago,+60623?entry=gmail&source=g>
>>  60623
>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/3555+Ogden+Ave,+Chicago,+60623?entry=gmail&source=g>
>> Fee: $75
>> Presented by: *Windy City Harvest*
>>
>> Avondale Gardening Alliance Seed Swap
>> <https://chicagocommunitygardens.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7f2904daf2a26a891c68f8bb0&id=4fc960d13f&e=9d74fd70ff>
>> February 23 @ 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
>> Metropolitan Brewery, 3057 N. Rockwell, Chicago, 60618
>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/3057+N.+Rockwell,+Chicago,+60618?entry=gmail&source=g>
>> FREE
>> Presented by: *Avondale Gardening Alliance*
>>
>> Beginning Beekeeping Class
>> <https://chicagocommunitygardens.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7f2904daf2a26a891c68f8bb0&id=bdad3f5812&e=9d74fd70ff>
>> February 29 @900 am - 2:00 pm
>> Garfield Park Conservatory, 300 N. Central Park Ave, Chicago, 60624
>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/300+N.+Central+Park+Ave,+Chicago,+60624?entry=gmail&source=g>
>> Fee: $56-70
>> Presented by: *Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance*
>>
>> AUA's 8th Annual Urban Livestock Expo
>> <https://chicagocommunitygardens.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7f2904daf2a26a891c68f8bb0&id=9e5fdbf5d3&e=9d74fd70ff>
>> February 29 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
>> Prosser Career Academy, 2148 N. Long Ave., Chicago, 60639
>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/2148+N.+Long+Ave.,+Chicago,+60639?entry=gmail&source=g>
>> FREE
>> Presented by: *Advocates for Urban Agriculture*
>>
>> Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop
>> <https://chicagocommunitygardens.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7f2904daf2a26a891c68f8bb0&id=8455a34da7&e=9d74fd70ff>
>> March 7 @ 9:00 am - 1:30 pm
>> Washington Park Youth Farm, 555 East 51st St., Chicago 60615
>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/555+East+51st+St.,+Chicago+60615?entry=gmail&source=g>
>> $75
>> Presented by:
>>
>>
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>>
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