[Communications] Number of gardens supported by CCGA

[Mamie Gray]

It took three tries, but I reached Pat. She could not do a “guestimate” on
the number of wards that are represented by the 320 gardens listed from the
2018 conference. She liked the idea, and given the time, would like to
include neighborhoods. I would bet the farm that the number of wards is
high. Mamie

On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 6:44 PM Amy Olson <akeo at me.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> 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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