<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="">Aww, I hope Pat and Robert are enjoying their family time! Let’s put this on our radar for post-conference. It would be fantastic to see a map, or as Pat mentioned, gardens by neighborhood.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 9, 2021, at 10:12 PM, 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="">It took three tries, but I reached Pat. She could not do a “guestimate” on the number of wards that are represented by the 320 gardens listed from the 2018 conference. She liked the idea, and given the time, would like to include neighborhoods. I would bet the farm that the number of wards is high. Mamie</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 6:44 PM 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="">That’s wonderful, I am glad they are not returning calls!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think we will be ok with this for now, and we will put on our to-do list a new interactive community garden map (maybe some students can help us create it)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I ran a filter for community gardens on this map, but I like our list of 320 from the conference reg, it seems more authentic.</div><div class=""><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><span style="text-decoration:underline;font-kerning:none" class=""><a href="http://www.cuamp.org/#/" target="_blank" class="">Chicago Urban Agriculture Mapping Project.</a></span></p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So, is this ok to put in the native plant registry recommendations doc?</div></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class=""><div class=""><font style="font-size:14px" class=""><i class="">CCGA is composed of gardeners representing over 320 community gardens in <span class="">nearly all 50</span> wards of Chicago, <span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class="">who garden both at home and in a community garden setting. </span></i></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 9, 2021, at 5:26 PM, Lorraine Kells <<a href="mailto:lxkells@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">lxkells@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Pat & Robert are in Calif enjoying a long awaited visit with their daughter. I tried calling on another issue last week. No one answered and no call back to the message I left. Hope you fare better.<div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Lorraine</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 9, 2021, 3:14 PM Mamie Gray via Communications <<a href="mailto:communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org" target="_blank" class="">communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" class="">Well, Amy, I was meeting with JW today who is running late. We may not meet until 3:30 or 4:00 p.m. Bottom line, your estimates are as good as mind without my creating a chart that lists gardens and addresses, then determining in which ward each is located. Although your idea is a great one, time is needed to even get close to accuracy or a “guestimate” (gardens are added and removed from the list). I would also find it necessary to check my info with someone like Pat Hart who has gardens </div><div dir="auto" class="">on both the west and south sides. Pat has the big picture when it comes to Chicago gardening. If you do not mind, I will call Pat to get her impressions and compare them with my own. Please let me know if this approach will be OK. Mamie </div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 12:08 PM Amy Olson <<a href="mailto:akeo@me.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">akeo@me.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;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 style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class=""><div class=""><font 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" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" 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 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 style="white-space:pre-wrap" class="">who garden both at home and in a community garden setting. </span></i></font></div></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""><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></div></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Amy</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 9, 2021, at 11:16 AM, Mamie Gray <<a href="mailto:mamiegray2012@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">mamiegray2012@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><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" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">akeo@me.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><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" style="font-family:Arial" class=""><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial" 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" style="font-family:Arial" class=""><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" style="font-family:Arial" class=""><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial" class="">Amy</span></font></div></div></blockquote></div></div>
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