[Communications] Number of gardens supported by CCGA

[Amy Olson]

That’s wonderful, I am glad they are not returning calls!

I think we will be ok with this for now, and we will put on our to-do list a new interactive community garden map (maybe some students can help us create it)

I ran a filter for community gardens on this map, but I like our list of 320 from the conference reg, it seems more authentic.
Chicago Urban Agriculture Mapping Project. <http://www.cuamp.org/#/>

So, is this ok to put in the native plant registry recommendations doc?

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.  


> On Mar 9, 2021, at 5:26 PM, Lorraine Kells <lxkells at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
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> On Tue, Mar 9, 2021, 3:14 PM Mamie Gray via Communications <communications at chicagocommunitygardens.org <mailto: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  
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> On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 12:08 PM Amy Olson <akeo at me.com <mailto: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 <https://forms.gle/1jQW8XNRoe9vTRXj7>
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> How about this?
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> 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.
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> Amy
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>> On Mar 9, 2021, at 11:16 AM, Mamie Gray <mamiegray2012 at gmail.com <mailto:mamiegray2012 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> 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
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>> 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:
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>> 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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