[Communications] Number of gardens supported by CCGA

[Lorraine Kells]

Pat & Robert are in Calif enjoying a long awaited visit with their
daughter. I tried calling on another issue last week. No one answered and
no call back to the message I left. Hope you fare better.

Lorraine

On Tue, Mar 9, 2021, 3:14 PM Mamie Gray via Communications <
communications at chicagocommunitygardens.org> wrote:

> Well, Amy, I was meeting with JW today who is running late. We may not
> meet until 3:30 or 4:00 p.m. Bottom line, your estimates are as good as
> mind without my creating a chart that lists gardens and addresses, then
> determining in which ward each is located. Although your idea is a great
> one, time is needed to even get close to accuracy or a “guestimate”
> (gardens are added and removed from the list). I would also find it
> necessary to check my info with someone like Pat Hart who has gardens
> on both the west and south sides. Pat has  the big picture when it comes
> to Chicago gardening. If you do not mind, I will call Pat to get her
> impressions and compare them with my own. Please let me know if this
> approach will be OK. Mamie
>
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 12:08 PM Amy Olson <akeo at me.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>> 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> 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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