<div dir="auto">Looks great. I say send it ASAP#</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Sep 18, 2020, 9:41 PM CCGA via Communications <<a href="mailto:communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org">communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<div style="padding-bottom:9px;color:#eeeeee;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;line-height:150%">"Here's the latest and hopefully final draft of the late summer newsletter. It owuld be great if we could send this out before noon tomorrow. Please take a look and let me know if there are any changes needed. I had to remove the mention of the sign because I have not heard from Robin whether we could have signs ready for the distribution next week. We will have to promote the sign on Facebook which I think is OK! Amy" — Chicago Community Gardeners Association</div>
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<span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif">- Barack Obama, 2020</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align:left"><font face="noticia text, georgia, times new roman, serif"><span style="font-size:16px">As spring turned to summer, our support for Black lives and for the community gardening community grew and continues to grow with each day. As surely as we tend our gardens, we tend to our neighborhoods and each other, and we reaffirm that growing is an important part of creating resilient and healthy communities in Chicago.</span></font><br>
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<font face="noticia text, georgia, times new roman, serif"><span style="font-size:16px">In this issue, we have garden stories, news and updates, distribution notes, and awards to tell you about. But first, we want to share a moment we had in dialogue with founding CCGA member Angela Taylor, a committed community activist and garden leader in Garfield Park, to share some thoughts on the importance of staying focused and dedicated to our work in our communities as an antidote to the sadness and unrest that has swept through our city. </span></font><br>
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<span style="color:#006400;font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif;font-size:16px"><strong>How does community gardening support Black lives? How do community gardens contribute to dismantling racism in our city?</strong></span><br>
<em style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif;font-size:16px">Here at the Fulton Street Flower and Vegetable Garden, we see the color green. To be afforded the opportunity to work with young people, and watch them learn about gardening and the role farming played in our culture, and then realize the importance of growing not just food, but growing a sense of community as well is amazing to witness. All of this seems to bring about a better appreciation for life.</em><br>
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<span style="color:#006400;font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif;font-size:16px"><strong>From your work with young people, what can you suggest that will bring us to a more creative and conscious dialogue about Black and Brown lives?</strong></span><br>
<em style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif;font-size:16px">If we could sometimes stop talking and just listen, we could learn a lot about what the needs of others are, and become open to learning new ways of getting things done.</em><br>
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<span style="color:#006400;font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif;font-size:16px"><strong>What are some practices for creating more loving, resilient relationships among each other in our communities as we work for and support racial justice?</strong></span><br>
<em style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif;font-size:16px">This is a tough one, but here you go... In everything we do, we should first consider how we would want to be treated, cared for, and responded to. </em><br>
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<span style="color:#006400;font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif;font-size:16px"><strong>In what way do you see gardens as a place for healing and empowerment?</strong></span><br>
<em style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif;font-size:16px">Community gardens are considered a healing space. Early in the morning, before the community wakes up, taking a walk in this quiet space sets the tone for the day: Being one with the earth, becoming inspired in our day, and to clear our mind to be able focus on what is in front of us. </em></div>
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<span style="color:#006400"><em><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif">"Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.”</span></span></em></span><br>
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<font color="#006400" face="noticia text, georgia, times new roman, serif"><span style="font-size:26px">Has your garden been affected by the 2020 Chicago Water Hydrant Policy? We want to hear from you - there is help!</span></font>
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<div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif">During the last few months, CCGA has heard from community gardeners that the new rules the Department of Water Management has enacted for fire hydrant water access is crippling for them. Acquiring, installing, and certifying a Reduced Pressure Zone (RPZ) unit for any community garden can be cost-prohibitive.<br>
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CCGA contacted Sean Ruane, the executive director of AUA (Advocates for Urban Agriculture), and we became a signatory on a letter to garner public support for this issue and advocate for more inclusivity of community gardeners.<br>
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The need for advocacy for the unique water access needs of community gardens with the City of Chicago is evident. CCGA seeks to develop a position and proposal to present to the City for what our community gardeners need as a long-term solution. The increase in the fee from previous years in the new policy is not as much a hardship as is the cost of the RPZ, inspections, and liability insurance. We look forward to working collaboratively with community gardeners, AUA, the City, and others to find a solution.<br>
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<strong>There is much more to this issue, and we want to hear from more of our community gardeners.</strong> We've developed a simple survey and would greatly appreciate your participation! The goal of the survey is to gain a clearer picture of how community gardeners in Chicago access water and to determine where support is needed. </span></span><br>
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<div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif"><strong>For those who need assistance <u>now</u>,</strong> AUA has compiled a resource guide and funding to help farmers/gardeners navigate the updated policy on their website, and we encourage you follow the link below! Please reach out to us if you have any other questions at <a href="mailto:communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org</a>.</span></span><br>
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The competition is FREE and open to anyone who has a garden or who belongs to a garden, whether it’s a community garden, church or school garden, or even a business garden. Videos can be straightforward, clever, artistic, funny—whatever the gardener chooses. And, for this special contest, e<em>ntrants need not be from Chicago. </em>We’re looking for 60 second videos of gardens from anywhere in the world.<br>
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<span style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif"><span style="color:#006400"><span style="font-size:26px">El Paseo Community Garden is granted a Creative Placemaking Award</span></span></span>
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<div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif"><span style="font-size:16px">El Paseo Community Garden enhances the quality of life for Pilsen residents through community building, stewardship, conservation, placemaking, partnerships, programming, and community gardening. The converted brownfield site provides opportunities to socialize with each other, plant and grow food, play, or simply be outside and enjoy the wildlife and fresh air the native plants provide. The garden and adjacent land it stewards provides over 34,000 square feet of public green space for the neighborhood and as a backyard for neighbors in the adjacent senior living and affordable housing apartments. The garden sits along a path with a monarch butterfly prairie on one side and raised beds on the other. Gardening is offered through private allotment beds or collective beds. Collective beds eliminate waiting lists for allotment beds and allow anyone to get involved. Free food beds are included on the perimeter of the collective beds for visitors. <br>
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The leadership team at El Paseo Community Garden applied for the MacArthur Foundation Creative Placemaking Award and by the end of 2019, they were notified they were finalists. On May 6th they were recognized via a virtual ceremony and awarded $15,000 along with it. The Acevedos credit their founders Sallie and Ron Gordon and their land trust, Neighborspace, for trusting them to carry on their vision. Gratitude is also expressed to all the organizations who have provided support through sponsorship, partnerships, and various donations. The success of our garden is possible by the countless volunteers that help maintain the space and provide programming. Congratulations, El Paseo!</span></span><br>
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<span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif"><span style="color:#000000">Applications are being accepted until <strong>September 30</strong> for the <strong>27th Annual Chicago Neighborhood Development Awards</strong>, including the <strong>MacArthur Foundation Creative Placemaking Award</strong>. </span><br>
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<div style="text-align:left"><em>Since the 1980’s a diverse patchwork of green spaces has appeared on North Lawndale’s map. These pocket gardens are sites of community activism, neighborhood beautification and youth education. In 1986, Gerald and Lorean Earles founded “Slum Busters” to transform vacant lots into flower and vegetable gardens. Their efforts have inspired the creation of more than 40 gardens and the North Lawndale Greening Committee." – </em>Learning from North Lawndale”, Chicago Architecture Tour, 2006</div>
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<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Noticia Text",Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#656565">Volunteers with the North Lawndale Greening Committee, inspired by the work of <strong>Lorean and Gerald Earles</strong>, started a garden restoration of the <strong>Slum Busters Garden</strong> on Saturday, June 20th. According to volunteer, Kimberly George, “The garden was literally buried in overgrown weeds. I started to reconsider this project, but then I remembered a story about Lorean Earles, discouraged in the evening, would still be out the next morning pulling a few weeds.” <br>
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In the middle of a pandemic, social unrest, and a financial depression, restoring a garden may not be the best idea. But, the reality is, this is the perfect time. Fresh produce and beautiful flowers are needed more than ever. The outpouring of individuals from all over the city wanting to contribute time is inspiring. Garden leaders like Dr. Shemuel Israel and Mamie Gray are following the example of the Earles, who once said, “No one wants to do anything, so why don’t we?” </p>
Dr. Israel, Mamie and Kimberly have held many workdays (safely) this summer to restore and clean up gardens in North Lawndale. To offer support please, sign up to volunteer using the button below.<br>
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