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<span style="font-size:10px">—Desmond Tutu</span><br>
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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">"The first bud of spring sings the other seeds into joining her uprising."</span></span></em></span> <br>
–<span style="font-size:10px"> Amanda Gorman</span><br>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif">The 50th anniversary of Earth Day, April 22, 2020 arrived with the coronavirus outbreak already unfolding throughout our lives. With the virtual disappearance of everyday contact with others, the prospect of plunging our hands in the soil gained extraordinary appeal; it was an act of self-preservation, for us and for the earth.<br>
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<em>We knew gardening was not just about growing food, but growth for the soul. Gardening helped us feel rooted, connected, and grateful. </em><br>
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Connection with plants and the environment is an integral part of human culture. The process of making connections starts at an early age in life, even without conscious thought. During the pandemic, connections have given us a sense of place, of purpose, and of inspiration. This year’s theme, <strong>Connections through Gardening: Plants, People and the Environment</strong>, 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. We hope you will join us on March 20th to discover deeper connections in your own communities!</span></span></div>
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<li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif">Production Planning for Community Garden Systems</span></span></li>
<li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif">Selecting Fruit Tree Varieties for an Extended Harvest (Pick Three!)</span></span></li>
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<li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif">Keeping Bees at Your Community Garden</span></span></li>
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<li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif">Keeping Bees at Your Community Garden</span></span></li>
<li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif">#ChicagoGrowsFood: How to Creatively Grow Food in Small Spaces </span></span></li>
<li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif">The Offers & Needs Market</span></span></li>
<li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif">Treehuggers Unite! Plant and protect our trees!</span></span></li>
<li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif">2021 Water Access for Urban Growers</span></span></li>
<li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif">Permaculture in Practice</span></span></li>
<li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif">Connect to School Gardens: Growing More Food and Celebrating Culture in Community</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif"><u>Session 3: 2:00 – 3:00 pm</u></span></span>
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<li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif">Sharing Notes: Community Gardeners Panel Discussion</span></span></li>
<li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif">Introducción a la Permacultura en Práctica (Español)</span></span></li>
<li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif">Growing Extra for Food Pantries in a Time of Food Insecurity: Trials, Tribulations & Successes</span></span></li>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color:#006400"><span style="font-size:20px"><span style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif"><strong>Become an exhibitor</strong></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">For some time, the CCGA Education Committee has considered recording the legacies built by our own gardeners. We're thrilled to share that this project has a green light! Even better, we plan to premier the first two short films highlighting legacy gardeners at the upcoming conference.<br>
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<strong>Do you know a lifelong gardener?</strong><br>
We want to feature those gardeners who have worked the soil over a lifetime and made an impact in their communities. This is someone, still living, who has built a legacy, not intentionally wanting recognition or success, but someone who has given their energy and wisdom to fellow gardeners and their community through leadership and service. This is someone who has taught generations how to garden by showing them how to value hard work, to nurture a tiny seed, and to feed the soil. If you know someone who has dared to be joyful despite hardship, who has always done what mattered, and has always given their time to make things better, please tell us. We want to give them a platform to share their story.<br>
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Please forward the name of your nominee to the Education Committee by emailing education@chicagocommunitygardens.org. Using the criteria in the paragraph above, please note why you are nominating this person. You may give your name or remain anonymous. Nominations will be considered once we receive the permission of the legacy gardener to be video recorded. <br>
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We hope this project will continue beyond this year’s conference – as long as there is interest. More details will be coming soon!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color:#006400"><span style="font-size:20px"><span style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif"><strong>The Resources Committee is Busy Growing!<br>
Spring Distribution in the Works</strong></span></span></span><br>
<span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif">CCGA's growing and propagating operations at both the CCGT and Austin High School greenhouses are in full swing! Stay tuned for updates about a distribution of spring ornamentals (violets, pansies, coleus, etc.) and vegetables!</span></span>
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Purslane grows abundantly in many of our community gardens. It's considered a weed by some, but it's used both medicinally and for cooking in the Middle East, Europe, and Latin America.
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<span style="color:#006400"><span style="font-size:20px"><span style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif"><strong>The 2020 CEGA Awards (Almost) Broke the Internet</strong></span></span></span><br>
<span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif"><span style="color:#696969">Last year, gardeners made the most of what they could as the pandemic unfolded in our communities. We became flexible and inventive in keeping our gardens going. Even the <strong>Chicago Excellence in Gardening Awards</strong> competition had to get creative. They launched their first ever <strong>CEGA 60-Second Garden Video Challenge</strong>. Virtual entrants came from as far east as Delaware and as far west as Washington state. Almost <strong>13,000 people</strong> watched the videos! For the first time, in addition to community gardens, prizes were awarded for residential and institutional gardens. Community gardens with the most votes tallied in a month received rain barrels provided by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District. Visit the </span><a href="https://chicagogardeningawards.org/" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #656565;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#696969">CEGA website</span></a><span style="color:#696969"> to see the all the winners!</span></span></span>
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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">In August of 2020, CCGA was contacted by the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) to participate in a new Community Garden Pilot Project. As churches have always been important resources and community institutions in Chicago, the goal of the project was to support faith-based community gardens already growing fresh produce. The scope of the pilot program allowed participants to add more growing beds or create a new garden. To better focus the assistance, The Illinois Legislative Black Caucus identified areas that have been hardest hit by Covid-19, “where food insecurity was prevalent and grocery stores scarce." </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif">Pictured, from left, are Gina, Rev. Ken Todd, Mamie, and Brother Rice in front of the hoop house at Fernwood Garden.</span>
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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">The organizations selected were Fernwood Community Outreach Church, Great True Vine Baptist Church, Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) and Trinity United Church. CCGA was sought out to provide technical assistance and partnered with these four faith-based organizations to support their plans. CCGA was also able to secure a donation from Gethsemane Garden Center of over 40 flats of lettuce, kale, Swiss chard, and even some pepper plants. May Toy accepted the many plants and prepared sets for pick-up by the participating gardeners. Additionally, May, Mamie Gray, and Gina Jamison visited the Fernwood Church garden to assist the church gardeners with planting all the seedlings. The pilot program successfully concluded at the end of last year, but CCGA is looking forward to continuing our support of these organizations again this year! </span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color:#2F4F4F"><span style="font-size:20px"><span style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif"><strong>More news to feature a South or West Side Gardener: Could it be You?</strong></span></span></span><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif"><span style="color:#2F4F4F"><strong> </strong></span><br>
<span style="color:#696969">Megy Karydes, a Chicago-based writer, contacted CCGA asking our help to identify a gardener to be profiled in an upcoming issue of </span><a href="https://chicagocaregiving.com/" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #656565;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#696969"><em>Chicago Health Caregiving</em></span></a><span style="color:#696969"> magazine. She is looking for a “Chicagoland-based gardener who is 65 years-old or better and lives anywhere but on the north or northwest side” as she had already found a gardener for these areas. The south or west side gardener should be someone who appreciates and uses gardening as a form of therapy or meditation, not necessarily a formal program…just someone who recognizes the therapeutic benefits gardening programs. She hopes this person has beautiful, high-quality digital images of their garden, and finally, “be willing to be photographed outside their home or garden space closer to early May.” You can nominate yourself or someone else. Contact </span><a href="mailto:megy@karydesconsulting.com" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #656565;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#696969">megy@karydesconsulting.com</span></a><span style="color:#696969"> Circle back in May to find out who was in the news!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif">February 25-26, March 5-6</span></span><br>
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March 1 @ 7:00 - 8:00 pm<br>
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<span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif">Fee: $15<br>
Presented by: <strong>Kilbourn Park’s Winter Gardening Zoom Classes</strong></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:noticia text,georgia,times new roman,serif">April 5 @ 6:30 - 9:00 pm<br>
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