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CCGA Summer 2016 Perennial Distribution – Friday, July 22, 2016

CCGA Summer 2016 Perennial Distribution – Friday, July 22, 2016

CCGA PERENNIAL PLANT DISTRIBUTION COMING UP! Our friends at Elite Growers will be providing the CCGA Resources Committee with perennials for distribution to community gardeners later this month. FRIDAY, July  22, 2016 New Horizons Community Garden 401 S. Central Park (southeast corner of Van Buren…

Pullman: 22nd Annual Garden Walk – A Garden Tour and Tea

Pullman: 22nd Annual Garden Walk – A Garden Tour and Tea

The Historic Pullman Garden Club, with co-sponsors the Historic Pullman Foundation and Pullman State Historic Site, invite you back to the Victorian era of the 1880’s during the 22nd Annual Garden Walk – A Garden Tour and Tea, on Saturday June 25, 2016, from 10…

Chicago Cares Serve-a-thon

Chicago Cares Serve-a-thon

Imagine a Chicago where everyone is rooting for each other. That’s what Chicago Cares’ Serve-a-thon is all about. This June 25, 5,000 people will spend the day volunteering, meeting critical needs in every corner of the city. Along the way, we’ll meet new people. We’ll…

Hideout Veggie Bingo

Hideout Veggie Bingo

NeighborSpace and The Hideout present Veggie Bingo! Every Wednesday evening from June 15th – August 31st. All proceeds benefit Chicago community gardens and gardening organizations: Wednesday, June 15: Chicago Community Gardeners Association Wednesday, June 22: El Paseo Community Garden Wednesday, June 29: Winthrop Harmony Arts…

KAM Isaiah Israel Farm & Food Forest School

2016 Summer Session Interested in learning about urban ag? How to grow food? How to design and install a food forest? Then please join us for any or all of eight free workshops this July and August at KAM Isaiah Israel’s award winning micro-farm and…

CCGA Resources Committee Spring Vegetable Distributions: Grow On!

5000 vegetable and flower seedlings and 135 community gardens; those are the statistics for this year’s Resources Committee distributions on May 7 and May 14.  The Resources Committee grew the seedlings in the Center for Green Technology greenhouse, and then distributed large “sampler packs” of tomatoes,…

Green and Growing: A Speaker Series – Fearless Food Gardening in Chicagoland

Green and Growing: A Speaker Series – Fearless Food Gardening in Chicagoland

Tuesday, June 7 at 7pm – Fearless Food Gardening in Chicagoland Speaker: LaManda Joy, founder of Peterson Garden Project as well as author of Start a Community Garden: The Essential Handbook

Green and Growing: A Speaker Series – Perennials, The Economizers of the Edible Landscape

Green and Growing: A Speaker Series – Perennials, The Economizers of the Edible Landscape

Wednesday, May 18 at 7pm – Perennials, The Economizers of the Edible Landscape Speaker: Lisa Hilgenberg, horitculturalist for the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Regenstein Fruit & Vegetable Garden

CCGA Coordinating Meeting Saturday May 14th at 11am

Please join us at 11am Saturday May 14th at the Chicago Center for Green Technology at 445 N. Sacramento Blvd. The meeting agenda includes: CCGA Working Team reports on: Tasks for 2016 and Budget (income and expenses); Calendar for the year to include dates for…

DÍA DE SIEMBRA /PLANTING DAY at El Paseo

DÍA DE SIEMBRA /PLANTING DAY at El Paseo

Si llueve sera el próximo día Domingo 15 de Mayo If it rains we will reschedule for the next day, Sunday May 15th • Limpiar/ Clean-up • Sembrar cajas compartidas/Plant shared beds • Formar equipos para / Make teams for shared • Convivo /Pot-Luck Traigan…