[Communications] Number of gardens supported by CCGA

[Amy Olson]

Yes, it would :) 

The timetable is that I think the goal is to wrap up edits of the CCGA recommendations this evening. 

I looked a the registration form for the 2020 conference which has the drop down menu of all the community gardens that have participated in the conferences - and that number is 320. I’m not sure how many wards that covers. If you log in to the CCGA Google account, you can see it here: https://forms.gle/1jQW8XNRoe9vTRXj7 <https://forms.gle/1jQW8XNRoe9vTRXj7>

How about this?

CCGA is composed of gardeners representing over 320 community gardens in nearly all 50 wards of Chicago, who garden both at home and in a community garden setting.  

I also looked at the Plant Medicine exhibit on the Field Museum website, which has the study that involved CCGA gardens, and it list this:
“there are about 870 community gardens and urban farms across Chicago, creating shared spaces where strangers can become neighbors.”  

870-320 leaves 550 - some of which must be gardens vs farms. But I think we should stick to community gardens and what we can back up - which is our past conference registrations.

So, if we could estimate the number of wards these gardens represent, I think that would get the message across that it’s A LOT of people and city-wide. It would be awesome to create a map from the gardens in the 2020 reg form list at some point.

Amy



> On Mar 9, 2021, at 11:16 AM, Mamie Gray <mamiegray2012 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Wow, Amy! That would be a fantastic record to compile. I understand that you want this information as soon as possible, but what is your timetable? Mamie
> 
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 10:14 AM Amy Olson <akeo at me.com <mailto:akeo at me.com>> wrote:
> Hi Mamie,
> 
> Hope you’re doing well. Do you have an idea of the number of gardens and how many wards are represented  through the resources plant distributions in general?  We’re working on a document of recommendations for the Native Garden Registry ordinance and it was suggested to include something like this:
> 
> CCGA is composed of gardeners representing xx gardens in xx wards who garden both at home and in a community garden setting.  
> 
> It’s hard to determine this because we don’t have membership. But we do advocate and support all community gardens!
> 
> Amy

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