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Join us for our first monthly meeting of 2025 this Tuesday, January 21, at 6pm on Zoom. All are welcome! <a href="https://chicagocommunitygardens.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7f2904daf2a26a891c68f8bb0&id=794b698ba3&e=10467e958f" target="_blank" title="CCGA 2025 Monthly Meetings" style="color: #656565;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Details can be found on the CCGA website</a>.
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<p style="color: #656565;font-family: "Noticia Text", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;text-align: left;" align="left">CCGA is an all-volunteer collective of community gardeners and needs people power to thrive. If you have a passion for supporting our gardening communities (and have a little time to share) then you have come to the right place!<br/>
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The <strong><a href="https://chicagocommunitygardens.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7f2904daf2a26a891c68f8bb0&id=e4acb0b827&e=10467e958f" style="color: #656565;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Communications team</a></strong> needs help supporting all of CCGA’s communications including the website, community garden map, social media, newsletters, writing, graphic design, photography, and some workshop/special event technical support and promotion. You don't have to have professional experience to be on the team, just a zest for communications and amplifying all the amazing work gardeners and growers are doing in Chicago! </p>
<p style="color: #656565;font-family: "Noticia Text", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;text-align: left;" align="left">The <strong><a href="https://chicagocommunitygardens.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7f2904daf2a26a891c68f8bb0&id=77e5180b38&e=10467e958f" style="color: #656565;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Advocacy & Outreach team</a></strong> is focused on tackling bigger-picture issues that affect all of us who are growers. While Chicago’s neighborhood gardens are our immediate focus, we also help to create policies that support the health and sustainability of green space and people in Chicago by working with the City and other partners and organizations with whom we share common goals.<br/>
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The <strong><a href="https://chicagocommunitygardens.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7f2904daf2a26a891c68f8bb0&id=c6d0772f7e&e=10467e958f" style="color: #656565;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Resources & Distributions team</a></strong> always needs help with growing seedlings and distributing plants. We would also like to hear from you if you learned/tried something in your garden last summer that you’d be willing to share with other gardeners <strong>this winter at a workshop</strong>. Last year, community gardeners shared their knowledge about growing luffas, cultivating sprouts indoors and planting containers for pollinators. Email <a href="mailto:resources@chicagocommunitygardens.org" style="color: #656565;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">resources@chicagocommunitygardens.org</a> if you’re interested in sharing your skills through a workshop!<br/>
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Contact the team you're interested in joining by clicking on the team links above!</p>
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<strong>Make Seed Bombs.</strong> Some of us have bags of seed pods in our freezers needing to be stripped of dried petals. <a href="https://chicagocommunitygardens.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7f2904daf2a26a891c68f8bb0&id=6573dd31f1&e=10467e958f" target="_blank" style="color: #656565;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Seeds can be rolled into seed bombs</a> for easy planting.</li>
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<strong>Make Pine Cone Bird Feeders. </strong>Find a large and open pine cone and attach string, wire, or pipe cleaner to the top to create a hanger. Then smear it with sunflower butter (no allergies) and roll it in sunflower seeds or another birdseed. For a gardener’s upgrade, add native tree fruit that you might see locally, like hackberry drupes, sweetgum, catalpa pods, and sycamore balls. Dark-eyed Junco like to stay on the ground but will eat seeds that fall from feeders. The Northern Cardinal, Carolina Chickadee, Red-breasted Nuthatch, and the Blue Jay will love this biodegradable wildlife fodder. <a href="https://chicagocommunitygardens.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7f2904daf2a26a891c68f8bb0&id=cefc1df9e9&e=10467e958f" target="_blank" style="color: #656565;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Here are some helpful instructions.</a>
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<strong>Do Some Birdwatching. </strong>There are no longer leaves to break the fall of the sun, and cold bare branches are truly not silent. The birds mentioned above are still here and watching them can help you understand ecosystems and how creatures respond to environmental changes. It’s easier to spot birds in winter (especially for little eyes). The stillness of winter allows for bird calls to be crisper and clearer. <a href="https://chicagocommunitygardens.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7f2904daf2a26a891c68f8bb0&id=5e6fd7eb23&e=10467e958f" target="_blank" style="color: #656565;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Merlin, by Cornell Labs</a>, has a great website and apps to help with identification.</li>
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<strong>Try Identifying Trees in Winter by Their Bark. </strong>Oh, what a challenge but a glorious endeavor if you can find a walk led by someone knowledgeable. <a href="https://chicagocommunitygardens.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7f2904daf2a26a891c68f8bb0&id=6c4c7d6e6c&e=10467e958f" target="_blank" style="color: #656565;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Take a virtual walk with Tom Ebeling</a>, an Openlands community arborist, and begin to identify trees in Winter at the Garfield Park Conservatory! </li>
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<p style="color: #656565;font-family: "Noticia Text", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;text-align: left;" align="left">We mourn the loss of our dear gardening friend and mentor <strong>Julie Samuels</strong>, who passed away on July 19, 2024. A Celebration of Life was held for her in August in Oak Park. Many from CCGA attended and there were well over <strong>two dozen</strong> speakers who gave testimony to the grace, selflessness, and truth that Julie gave us with her friendship, as an organizer, and her propensity to propagate! Her online obituary can be found <a href="https://chicagocommunitygardens.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7f2904daf2a26a891c68f8bb0&id=2d3561369e&e=10467e958f" target="_blank" style="color: #656565;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a> and you're welcome to add a memory or story.</p>
<p style="color: #656565;font-family: "Noticia Text", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;text-align: left;" align="left">We’ve formed a committee working to create a lasting tribute to Julie and will share details as they develop. If you’d like to be a part of the committee or have any stories to share of Julie, please send them to us at <a href="mailto:communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org" data-pm-mailto="1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #656565;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org</a> or message us on <a href="https://chicagocommunitygardens.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7f2904daf2a26a891c68f8bb0&id=839cca3e63&e=10467e958f" target="_blank" style="color: #656565;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Facebook</a>. Let’s share our treasured memories of our time working with Julie and her enormous impact on Chicago community gardens!</p>
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<em data-mce-selected="inline-boundary">Clockwise: a beautiful selection of plants from Resources' fall distribution, a Garfield Park Garden Tour attendee at Kuumba Tre-Ahm Garden in August, and Ms. Erma Purnell and Ms. Juline Clinton at the How To Keep It Going event in May honoring our Legacy Gardeners.</em>
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<p style="color: #656565;font-family: "Noticia Text", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;text-align: left;" align="left">Do you know a Legacy Gardener? We want to tell their story! We aspire to feature those gardeners who have worked the soil beside us and, over a lifetime, have made an impact we can’t overlook. 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. </p>
<p style="color: #656565;font-family: "Noticia Text", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;text-align: left;" align="left">Please forward the name of your nominee to the <a href="mailto:education@chicagocommunitygardens.org?subject=Legacy%20Gardener%20Film%20Project" target="_blank" style="color: #656565;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Education team</a>. Using the criteria in the paragraph above, please share why you nominate 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 videotaped.</p>
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