<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Yes, it would :) <div class=""><br class=""><div class="">The timetable is that I think the goal is to wrap up edits of the CCGA recommendations this evening. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><font color="#000000" class="">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 <span style="background-color: rgb(246, 236, 0);" class="">320</span>. I’m not sure how many wards that covers. If you log in to the CCGA Google account, you can see it here: </font><a href="https://forms.gle/1jQW8XNRoe9vTRXj7" class="">https://forms.gle/1jQW8XNRoe9vTRXj7</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">How about this?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><i class="">CCGA is composed of gardeners representing over 320 community gardens in <span style="background-color: rgb(246, 236, 0);" class="">nearly all 50</span> wards of Chicago, <span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">who garden both at home and in a community garden setting. </span></i></font></div></div></div></div><div><br class=""></div><div>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:</div><div><div class="">“there are about <span style="background-color: rgb(246, 236, 0);" class="">870
community gardens and urban farms across Chicago</span>, creating shared spaces where
strangers can become neighbors.” </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Amy</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 9, 2021, at 11:16 AM, Mamie Gray <<a href="mailto:mamiegray2012@gmail.com" class="">mamiegray2012@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">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</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 10:14 AM Amy Olson <<a href="mailto:akeo@me.com" class="">akeo@me.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class="">Hi Mamie,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">CCGA is composed of gardeners representing xx gardens in xx wards <span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">who garden both at home and in a community garden setting. </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class="">It’s hard to determine this because we don’t have membership. But we do advocate and support all community gardens!</span></font></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class=""><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Amy</span></font></div></div></blockquote></div></div>
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