<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi all,<br class=""><br class="">Here’s the latest newsletter story list based on the meeting this eve.<br class=""><br class="">If we want to aim for publishing the week of Feb. 8-12, we have 3 weeks.<br class="">As a suggestion, we could firm up the story list by Monday, that would give us two solid weeks to work on it.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class=""><u class="">CCGA winter newsletter story ideas</u></b><ol class=""><li class="">Conference Updates: Registration is open and important info</li><li class="">Order seeds early</li><li class="">Garden highlight - Cordia Vets garden - Talk with Babette <a href="https://news.wttw.com/2020/12/07/chicago-portrait-babette-peyton" class="">https://news.wttw.com/2020/12/07/chicago-portrait-babette-peyton</a> *I messaged with Cordia about the above link she sent about Babette. Such an amazing person! I told Cordia that we could maybe have a piece about her Veterans Garden in our winter newsletter. I suggested we could Babette to share her feelings about gardening with Cordia and frame the story through that lens.</li><li class="">Resources for gardeners: update website, make a list, encourage people to share info on forum. Incentive?</li><li class="">Invite people to nominate ‘legacy’ garden members for "Garden Stories” project</li><li class="">Food – recipes, fermenting, canning, </li><li class="">Season extension</li><li class="">Updated gardening calendar </li><li class="">Field Museum exhibit</li><li class="">Update on Pilot Project</li><li class="">Water Survey Results & Update on water access advocacy</li><li class="">Grants – Urban Ag and Gardening (Kim) </li></ol><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>