Please join us: CCGA Education Committee Saturday, December 10th, 2016 9:00am to 10:00am Chicago Center for Green Technology 445 N. Sacramento Blvd Chicago, IL 60612 see you there!
Please join us: CCGA Membership Committee Monday, December 5th, 2016 2:00pm to 3:00pm Breakthrough FamilyPlex 3219 W. Carroll Chicago, IL 60624 see you there!
Please join us: CCGA Finance Committee Monday, December 5th, 2016 12:00pm to 2:00pm Breakthrough FamilyPlex 3219 W. Carroll Chicago, IL 60624 Agenda: We are again requesting budgets from each committee for 2017 Any needs you may have for the conference Suggestions for the fiscal agent…
Please join us at 10:00am Saturday December 10th at the Chicago Center for Green Technology at 445 N. Sacramento Blvd. The meeting agenda includes: CCGA Working Team reports and preliminary work-shop planning for the 2017 CCGA Annual Conference. We’ll meet on the 2nd floor and…
Friday November 11th the CCGA held a new kind of distribution, making tropical plants available to any interested community gardener for a small fee, just $5 per person. It was our one and only “Last Call” signaled not by flashing lights at Symphony Hall, or…
We’re not done yet! We have more plants to get to our gardeners, so ATTENTION PLANT LOVERS… The CCGA Resources Committee has received several end-of-the-season donations of beautiful tropical plants that could be wintered over as house plants including some lovely ferns. We also have…
Please join us at 9:00am Saturday, November 12th, 2016 at the Bethel Terrace Senior Residence located at 900 W. 63rd Parkway. The meeting agenda includes: CCGA committee reports and update planning for the 2017 CCGA Annual Conference. Bring a snack or drink to share if you can.…
Combining history and horticulture, the CCGA held its final plant distribution of the year on October 15 in the Garfield Park Conservatory’s Jensen Room. We were greeted on Saturday morning not with rain and soggy fields, but with beautiful – and dry – flowering bulbs! The…
On Friday September 30, CCGA volunteers showed up early in the morning at New Horizons Community Garden to prepare for the CCGA Resource Committee’s final Perennial Distribution of the year. Scott Byron’s (really) long truck arrived at 8:30, and was bursting with a multitude of pots of donated plants in seemingly endless…
The 2016 CCGA BULB DISTRIBUTION! The CCGA Resources Committee will hold its annual bulb distribution on Saturday, October 15, 2016. We hope you will come and get a nice sampling of bulbs to plant now for beautiful spring flowers. Here are the details: When: …