<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="">Good morning! Yawn, lol<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m going to wrap this email up this morning, I just need some help with crafting the gardener greeting at the top!</div><div class="">I thought about connecting March 20 with the first day of Spring (!) and also the anniversary of the Covid-19 stay at home order in 2020. </div><div class="">Somehow we need to link this to the theme of our conference - connections. Here’s what I started:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div style="text-align: left; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">Hello Community Gardeners!</div></div><div class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">March 20 is a big day, it will be the first day of Spring. It also marks exactly one year since we first entered the stay-at-home order given by Gov. Pritzker. And here we are, able to finally begin to envision life post-pandemic. We enter the spring growing season with the wisdom we've gained. Our gardens and urban farms provided resilience agility <u class="">connections</u> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" class="">(need to write!)</span></div></div><div class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">Here's our slate of presentations, special events and breakouts</div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><br class=""></div></blockquote><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 9, 2021, at 11:52 PM, Amy Olson via Communications <<a href="mailto:communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org" class="">communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Hi - I started drafting the newsletter and realized I don’t have all the speaker’s pics. So I went a different direction and highlighted the presentations. So, instead of “meet the presenters” this is more of a look at the presentations/sessions. </span><br class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I think we can do half this week and half next week (Monday)</span><br class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">What I plan to include in this one:</span><br class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><ul class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><li class="">Selecting Fruit Tree Varieties for an Extended Harvest </li><li class="">Keeping Bees at Your Community Garden </li><li class="">Treehuggers Unite! Plant and Protect our Trees!</li><li class="">Técnicas eficaces para la jardinera ecológica en pequeños espacios </li><li class="">Mapping Soil Lead in Chicago, Potential Uptake by Vegetables</li><li class="">Connect to School Gardens: Growing More Food and Celebrating Culture in Community </li><li class="">#ChicagoGrowsFood: How to Creatively Grow Food in Small Spaces</li><li class="">Permaculture in Practice </li><li class="">Breakouts - Dan</li><li class="">call for photos, exhibitors</li><li class="">Upcoming events</li></ul><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">I need help writing the short intro - see highlight below. Please help :)</div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">I’ll be back online in the morning,</div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Amy</div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">This is what can be included in the next one:</div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><ul class="MailOutline"><li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">Introducción a la Permacultura en Práctica</span></li><li class="">The Offers & Needs Market</li><li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">Sharing Notes: Community Gardeners Discussion</span></li><li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">Production Planning for Community Garden Systems</span></li><li class="">Best Practices for Sustainable Gardening in Small Spaces</li><li class="">Growing Extra for Food Pantries in a Time of Food Insecurity</li><li class="">2021 Water Access for Urban Growers </li><li class="">Breakouts - Trinisa</li><li class="">Legacy Gardener announcement</li><li class="">native garden registry update?</li></ul><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Noticia Text", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center; padding: 0px 18px 9px;"><div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: "noticia text", georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Hello Community Gardeners!</span></div><div class="" style="text-align: left;"><br class=""><span class="" style="font-family: "noticia text", georgia, "times new roman", serif;">March 20 is a big day, it will be the first day of Spring. It also marks exactly one year since we first entered the stay-at-home order given by Gov. Pritzker. And here we are, able to finally begin to envision life post-pandemic. We enter the spring growing season with the wisdom we've gained. Our gardens and urban farms provided resilience agility connections <span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">(need to write!)</span><br class=""><br class="">Here's our slate of presentations, special events and breakouts</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed !important;"><tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"><tr class=""><td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%; padding: 18px;"><table class="mcnDividerContent" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; border-top-width: 2px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(234, 234, 234);"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class=""></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnBoxedTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class="mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter"><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="mcnBoxedTextBlockInner"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnBoxedTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="" style="padding: 9px 18px;"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" width="100%" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="word-break: break-word; color: rgb(242, 242, 242); font-family: "Noticia Text", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 24px; line-height: 36px; text-align: center; padding: 18px;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 100, 0);"><span class="" style="font-size: 26px;"><span class="" style="font-family: "noticia text", georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Selecting Fruit Tree Varieties for an Extended Harvest (Pick Three!)</span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnCaptionBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody class="mcnCaptionBlockOuter"><tr class=""><td class="mcnCaptionBlockInner" valign="top" style="padding: 9px;"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnCaptionBottomContent" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="mcnCaptionBottomImageContent" align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 9px 9px;"><img alt="" src="https://mcusercontent.com/7f2904daf2a26a891c68f8bb0/images/f2df52ae-be47-4517-bdc1-331c75a3c2b1.jpg" width="564" class="mcnImage" style="border: 0px; height: auto; outline: none; vertical-align: bottom; max-width: 1000px;"></td></tr><tr class=""><td class="mcnTextContent" valign="top" width="564" style="word-break: break-word; color: rgb(101, 101, 101); font-family: "Noticia Text", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center; padding: 0px 9px;"><div class="" style="text-align: left;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-family: "noticia text", georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Whether you are planning to buy your first fruit tree or thinking of adding a few more varieties to your orchard, <strong class="">Tim Hamilton of MidFEx</strong><em class=""> </em>will help you through the selection process. When looking on-line or browsing catalogs, the choices may seem overwhelming - which fruit to grow - apples, peaches, pears, cherries, or plums? A discussion of the differences between fruit trees and the challenges of growing them, including which fruits are easier to grow organically and which need to be sprayed to harvest fruit. Tim will present the idea of “picking three” different fruits or varieties to extend your harvest from summer to late fall here in Chicago.</span></span></div><div class="" style="text-align: left;"> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed !important;"><tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"><tr class=""><td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%; padding: 18px;"><table class="mcnDividerContent" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; border-top-width: 2px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(234, 234, 234);"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class=""></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnBoxedTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class="mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter"><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="mcnBoxedTextBlockInner"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnBoxedTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="" style="padding: 9px 18px;"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" width="100%" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="word-break: break-word; color: rgb(242, 242, 242); font-family: "Noticia Text", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 24px; line-height: 36px; text-align: center; padding: 18px;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 100, 0);"><span class="" style="font-size: 26px;"><span class="" style="font-family: "noticia text", georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Keeping Bees at Your Community Garden</span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnCaptionBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody class="mcnCaptionBlockOuter"><tr class=""><td class="mcnCaptionBlockInner" valign="top" style="padding: 9px;"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnCaptionBottomContent" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="mcnCaptionBottomImageContent" align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 9px 9px;"><img alt="" src="https://mcusercontent.com/7f2904daf2a26a891c68f8bb0/images/7fca0a55-93bc-49ea-9273-a0f49e7f17ed.jpg" width="564" class="mcnImage" style="border: 0px; height: auto; outline: none; vertical-align: bottom; max-width: 1001px;"></td></tr><tr class=""><td class="mcnTextContent" valign="top" width="564" style="word-break: break-word; color: rgb(101, 101, 101); font-family: "Noticia Text", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center; padding: 0px 9px;"><div class="" style="text-align: left;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-family: "noticia text", georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Join <strong class="">Matthias Lampe, Head Beekeeper</strong> at <strong class="">El Paseo Community Garden</strong> as he shares lessons learned in keeping honey bees and how they benefit your community garden, including:</span></span><ul class=""><li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-family: "noticia text", georgia, "times new roman", serif;">How to start beekeeping (equipment, buying bees, location, tools, costs, etc.)</span></span></li><li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-family: "noticia text", georgia, "times new roman", serif;">What to know to be a beekeeper (incl. resources to learn beekeeping)</span></span></li><li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-family: "noticia text", georgia, "times new roman", serif;">How to harvest and sell honey (equipment, tools, costs, expected income)</span></span></li><li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-family: "noticia text", georgia, "times new roman", serif;">How to organize, involve and educate volunteers as beekeepers</span></span></li><li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-family: "noticia text", georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Where to find help (e.g., organizations and potential mentors for beekeeping)</span></span></li></ul><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-family: "noticia text", georgia, "times new roman", serif;">After the presentation, Matthias will answer questions and will be available to help anyone with the decision process and the setup. Perhaps keeping bees could be a new project for your community garden in 2021!</span></span></div><div class="" style="text-align: left;"> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed !important;"><tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"><tr class=""><td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%; padding: 18px;"><table class="mcnDividerContent" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; border-top-width: 2px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(234, 234, 234);"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class=""></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnBoxedTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class="mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter"><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="mcnBoxedTextBlockInner"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnBoxedTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="" style="padding: 9px 18px;"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" width="100%" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="word-break: break-word; color: rgb(242, 242, 242); font-family: "Noticia Text", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 24px; line-height: 36px; text-align: center; padding: 18px;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 100, 0);"><span class="" style="font-size: 26px;"><span class="" style="font-family: "noticia text", georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Tree Huggers Unite! Let's Plant and Protect Our Trees!</span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnCaptionBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody class="mcnCaptionBlockOuter"><tr class=""><td class="mcnCaptionBlockInner" valign="top" style="padding: 9px;"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnCaptionBottomContent" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="mcnCaptionBottomImageContent" align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 9px 9px;"><img alt="" src="https://mcusercontent.com/7f2904daf2a26a891c68f8bb0/images/0aeb7cef-a0cd-4636-acda-ae0399ae6951.jpeg" width="564" class="mcnImage" style="border: 0px; height: auto; outline: none; vertical-align: bottom; max-width: 640px;"></td></tr><tr class=""><td class="mcnTextContent" valign="top" width="564" style="word-break: break-word; color: rgb(101, 101, 101); font-family: "Noticia Text", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center; padding: 0px 9px;"><div class="" style="text-align: left;"><span class="" style="font-family: "noticia text", georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Why are more trees are urgently needed in our urban environment? Find out the answer to this question and what you can do about it (hint: it's in the title!) Join <strong class="">Betsy Elsaesser, Certified Arborist,</strong><em class=""> </em>to explore the many benefits of trees. She will discuss the right trees for Chicagoland, where and how to plant trees and how to maintain them. Included is a brief introduction to the TreeKeepers program and the Openlands tree planting grant program. Betsy is the President of the North Park Village Garden Club, one of the oldest and largest community gardens in Chicago. She has loved gardens, trees and natural areas all her life. She has been a volunteer TreeKeeper with Openlands since 1993 and assists with TreeKeeper classes and pruning practical exams. She passed the International Society of Arboriculture exam to become a Certified Arborist, and also completed the Tree Risk Assessment Qualification.</span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed !important;"><tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"><tr class=""><td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%; padding: 18px;"><table class="mcnDividerContent" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; border-top-width: 2px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(234, 234, 234);"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class=""></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnBoxedTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class="mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter"><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="mcnBoxedTextBlockInner"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnBoxedTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="" style="padding: 9px 18px;"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" width="100%" style="border-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(150, 205, 148); min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="word-break: break-word; color: rgb(10, 50, 9); font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: center; padding: 18px;"><font face="noticia text, georgia, times new roman, serif" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 20px;"><strong class="">Virtual Community Garden Slide Show</strong></span></font><br class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="" style="font-family: "noticia text", georgia, "times new roman", serif;">We're adding photos from last year to our community garden slide show. Show off your hard work! Share your masked planting and socially-distanced activities! Email your photos to <a href="mailto:photos@chicagocommunitygardens.org" class="" style="color: rgb(101, 101, 101);">photos@chicagocommunitygardens.org</a>.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed !important;"><tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"><tr class=""><td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%; padding: 18px;"><table class="mcnDividerContent" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; border-top-width: 2px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(234, 234, 234);"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class=""></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnBoxedTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class="mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter"><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="mcnBoxedTextBlockInner"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnBoxedTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="" style="padding: 9px 18px;"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" width="100%" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="word-break: break-word; color: rgb(242, 242, 242); font-family: "Noticia Text", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 24px; line-height: 30px; text-align: center; padding: 18px;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 100, 0);"><span class="" style="font-size: 26px;"><span class="" style="font-family: "noticia text", georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Técnicas eficaces para la jardinera ecológica en pequeños espacios<br class=""><em class="">(presentado solo en Español)</em></span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnCaptionBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody class="mcnCaptionBlockOuter"><tr class=""><td class="mcnCaptionBlockInner" valign="top" style="padding: 9px;"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnCaptionBottomContent" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="mcnCaptionBottomImageContent" align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 9px 9px;"><img alt="" src="https://mcusercontent.com/7f2904daf2a26a891c68f8bb0/images/07f7339b-b14c-4b1b-a323-494046fa4cbc.jpg" width="564" class="mcnImage" style="border: 0px; height: auto; outline: none; vertical-align: bottom; max-width: 1001px;"></td></tr><tr class=""><td class="mcnTextContent" valign="top" width="564" style="word-break: break-word; color: rgb(101, 101, 101); font-family: "Noticia Text", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center; padding: 0px 9px;"><div class="" style="text-align: left;"><span class="" style="font-family: "noticia text", georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Este taller será una discusión guiada e interactiva, centrada en el tema de cómo economizar para rendir el mayor provecho posible de una temporada de cultivo limitada y escasos recursos de tal forma que también contribuimos al cuidado de nuestra tierra. En equipo, diseñaremos un jardín urbano estándar que mide 4 pies por 8 pies usando un tapiz a la medida. A la vez, exploraremos cómo adaptar las siguientes técnicas para los jardines chicos: combinar plantas, plantar en sucesión, hacer nuestro propio abono y conservar el agua. Al final de la discusión, cada participante tendrá oportunidad de hacer preguntas mientras dibuja un plan para su propio jardín estándar de 4 por 8 pies. <br class=""><br class=""><strong class="">Emilia Arellano</strong> es Coordinadora de invernadero para el Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance. Ofrece talleres de horticultura para adultos y dirige un grupo diverso y dedicado de más de 30 voluntarios que propagan plantas de adorno y comestibles. Además maneja el Jardín donativo desde la etapa de cultivación hasta la distribución de las cosechas. Tiene licenciatura en Estudios latinoamericanos y literatura hispana de la Universidad de Chicago y certificados en Agricultura urbana sostenible, Diseño de jardinería comestible e Iniciativa empresarial para comida local de Windy City Harvest. Su pasión por la jardinería sostenible no se limita al trabajo. Como voluntaria en el programa Chicago Master Gardeners, tiene mucha experiencia trabajando junto a jóvenes y adultos en jardines de escuelas, hospitales y huertos comunitarios del norte y oeste de Chicago.</span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed !important;"><tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"><tr class=""><td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%; padding: 18px;"><table class="mcnDividerContent" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; border-top-width: 2px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(234, 234, 234);"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class=""></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed !important;"><tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"><tr class=""><td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%; padding: 18px;"><table class="mcnDividerContent" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; border-top-width: 2px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(234, 234, 234);"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class=""></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed !important;"><tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"><tr class=""><td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%; padding: 18px;"><table class="mcnDividerContent" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; border-top-width: 2px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(234, 234, 234);"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class=""></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnBoxedTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class="mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter"><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="mcnBoxedTextBlockInner"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnBoxedTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="" style="padding: 9px 18px;"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" width="100%" style="border-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(180, 218, 206); min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="word-break: break-word; color: rgb(29, 88, 27); font-family: "Noticia Text", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center; padding: 18px;"><div class="" style="text-align: left;"><span class="" style="font-size: 20px;"><span class="" style="font-family: "noticia text", georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><strong class="">Join the Conference Support Team</strong></span></span><br class=""><span class="" style="font-family: "noticia text", georgia, "times new roman", serif;">We are looking for people to help out at the conference! Support Team members (volunteers) receive a $5 discount from general registration which includes workshops, breakfast, and lunch. Support Team members who don't attend workshops pay $15 for lunch only. To sign up, select the Support Team option on the main conference registration page. </span><br class=""><br class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 20px;"><span class="" style="font-family: "noticia text", georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><strong class="">Calling all Vendors & Exhibitors</strong></span></span><br class=""><span class="" style="font-family: "noticia text", georgia, "times new roman", serif;">You're invited to share your <u class="">garden-related</u> products, valuable knowledge, resources and skills with Chicago’s community gardeners at our annual conference! Connect with our audience of around 200 community gardeners who will have time to visit your table and have meaningful conversations. Please contact <a href="mailto:communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org" class="" style="color: rgb(101, 101, 101);">communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org</a> to obtain a form and more info.</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed !important;"><tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"><tr class=""><td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%; padding: 18px;"><table class="mcnDividerContent" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; border-top-width: 2px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(234, 234, 234);"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class=""></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnFollowBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; 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