<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Deb & MidFex Friends,</div><div><br></div><div>Yes, we had our meeting today. The CCGA gardeners conference on the 21st is cancelled. We are just sending out emails now and updating our website.</div><div><br></div><div>I'll be at both grafting workshops to help out.  JW Glass<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 4:40 PM Deborah <<a href="mailto:gardenerd@comcast.net">gardenerd@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi - just checking in. I assume this will be cancelled? <br><br>Deb <br><br>Sent from Xfinity Connect App<br><br><br><br>------ Original Message ------<br><br>From: JW Glass<br>To: MidFEx - Jeff Postlewaite, <a href="mailto:gardenerd@comcast.net" target="_blank">gardenerd@comcast.net</a><br>Cc: CCGA - Julie Samuels, Al Cosnow<br>Sent: January 15, 2020 at 2:08 PM<br>Subject: From CCGA - March 21st Community Gardeners Conference<br><br><div dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="gmail-m_-1658235676162947696gmail-docs-internal-guid-f02bee0b-7fff-b051-7af4-83a8bc6484bd"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hello Deborah & Jeff,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I wanted to reach out to MidFEx on behalf of the Chicago community gardening group I volunteer for, CCGA. Deb, I mentioned this to you at some point last year and am following up now.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are hosting our 8th annual networking and educational event for community gardeners in Chicago. We typically have between 200 and 300 attendees and host about 12 workshops for gardeners. Our event is a big love-fest of growers from all corners of the city and the biggest networking event of community gardeners in the midwest.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">You can view more about the event here:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://chicagocommunitygardens.org/2020/01/09/2020-conference-announcement/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://chicagocommunitygardens.org/2020/01/09/2020-conference-announcement/</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This year's theme “Connections through Gardening: Plants, People and the Environment,” aims to explore and celebrate the interconnectedness of our shared garden work and to foster relationships and conversations that shape and support best practices for sustainable living and growing in Chicago.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">At our 2018 conference MidFEx members </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tim Hamilton</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rod Beary</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> presented a workshop on fruit trees that was packed with over 30 attendees. I think they had fun. It is a nice event.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The community gardeners conference is a good venue for MidFEx to exhibit and get some exposure amongst a great number of potential members and fruit tree growers.</span></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ideally MidFEx would take an exhibitor table at our upcoming conference on </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Saturday March 21st</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Jule Samules from our group typically coordinates the exhibitors at our conference and I have copied her on this email. We will send out an email about exhibiting at our conference soon with all the details but I wanted to get this in front of you sooner because I know MidFEx has several other events to represent at in the coming months.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Let me know if you have any questions.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">JW Glass</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Communications Team Volunteer</span></p>

<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font size="4">JW Glass<br>Chicago, Illinois<br>312.498.3889  |  <a href="mailto:jameswesleyglass@gmail.com" target="_blank">james.wesley.glass@gmail.com</a></font><br><br></div></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font size="4">JW Glass<br>Chicago, Illinois<br>312.498.3889  |  <a href="mailto:jameswesleyglass@gmail.com" target="_blank">james.wesley.glass@gmail.com</a></font><br><br></div></div></div></div>