[Communications] Number of gardens supported by CCGA

[Amy Olson]

Aww, I hope Pat and Robert are enjoying their family time! Let’s put this on our radar for post-conference. It would be fantastic to see a map, or as Pat mentioned, gardens by neighborhood.

> On Mar 9, 2021, at 10:12 PM, Mamie Gray <mamiegray2012 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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
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> On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 6:44 PM Amy Olson <akeo at me.com <mailto:akeo at me.com>> wrote:
> That’s wonderful, I am glad they are not returning calls!
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> 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)
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> 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/#/>
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> So, is this ok to put in the native plant registry recommendations doc?
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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.  
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>> On Mar 9, 2021, at 5:26 PM, Lorraine Kells <lxkells at gmail.com <mailto:lxkells at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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 :) 
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>> The timetable is that I think the goal is to wrap up edits of the CCGA recommendations this evening. 
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>> 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.  
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>> 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.”  
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>> 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.
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>> 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.  
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>>> 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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