<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="">Hi Jonathan!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m forwarding your email to our resources team, it’s possible they would be interested in some pots for transplanting seedlings for CCGA plant distributions. If not, we can definitely share this on our Facebook page.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Resources team - please see Jonathan’s email below!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks!</div><div class="">Amy</div><div class="">CCGA communications team</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 14, 2021, at 11:59 AM, Jonathan Jackson via Communications <<a href="mailto:communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org" class="">communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">Greetings from Edgewater,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I am participating in the Chicago Conservation
Corps on a project to raise consumer awareness regarding waste in our food
system. The Edgewater Environmental Coalition recommended I contact your association, and I'm hoping that I can share this project with you and perhaps find more participants. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">The deliverable of this project is to give farms
and nurseries food grade plastic containers (like yogurt containers) for use as
seedling pots instead of newly manufactured pots “designed” for plants (see the
attached image for an example). We give the pots for free. The impact of
each reused plastic pot is: </p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 27pt; line-height: normal;" class="">· One pot a local grower
need not purchase.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 27pt; line-height: normal;" class="">· One piece of plastic
diverted from immediately entering a landfill.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 27pt; line-height: normal;" class="">· An opportunity to show
consumers the importance and ease of reuse.</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt 27pt; line-height: normal;">· An opportunity to
educate.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">This year, we have provided pots to Chicago
Lights Urban Farm for the upcoming summer sale, and we are hoping to find more
participants. Do you know any organizations interested in free pots for
seedlings? </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">Let me know if you have any questions!</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">Thanks,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">Jonathan</p><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="">-- </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="">Jonathan Jackson</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="">(225) 288-2772</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class=""><a href="http://circularsolutions.us/" class=""><span style="color:blue" class="">circularsolutions.us</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 107%;" class=""> </div></div>Communications mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org" class="">Communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org</a><br class="">http://chicagocommunitygardens.org/mailman/listinfo/communications_chicagocommunitygardens.org<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><img apple-inline="yes" id="8C3E6F49-6985-4FBA-A89B-730C380BD01F" src="cid:7C8E726D-6EE5-4912-B565-D31CB9ED747B@hsd1.il.comcast.net" class=""></div></body></html>