Tag: CCGA

Remember the CCGA Bulb Distribution Last October?

These photos show a few of the results!     Share your favorite CCGA photos with us!

Peterson Garden Project Plant Sale: Cool Crops

Peterson Garden Project Plant Sale: Cool Crops

Shop the Peterson Garden Project Pop-Up Plant Sale and get your garden growing! This year’s plant sale is going to be our biggest yet! For the April sale, we’ll have a wide selection of edible cool-weather seedlings, seed potatoes and seeds. And since this is…

Save The Date! Saturday May 14, 2016! Vegetable Seedling Distribution AND Wrought Iron Sale!

Hello Community Gardeners, The CCGA Resources Committee will hold a vegetable seedling distribution on Saturday, May 14, 2016 at the Center for Green Technology, 445 N. Sacramento.  More details will follow soon.           In the meantime, please tell all your friends…

Congratulations Erik – Chicago Conservation Corps Leader!

      CCGA volunteer Erik Hernandez, now on the staff of Neighbor Space with this newly awarded Chicago Conservation Corps Leader ID presented April 14 at the 16th Annual Volunteer Recognition Ceremony at the Chicago Academy of Sciences/Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.  This recognition of…

El Paseo Community Garden – Opening Day/Apertura de Jardin

El Paseo Community Garden – Opening Day/Apertura de Jardin

GARDEN OPENING DAY / APERTURA DE JARDÍN EL PASEO COMMUNITY GARDEN www.elpaseogarden.org (773) 234-6168 elpaseo.communitygarden@neighbor-space.org VENGAN Y AYUDANOS! COME AND HELP US! GARDEN OPENING DAY • Pintar/ Paint • Limpiar/ Clean-up • Hablar sobre tierra/ Soil Talk • Convivo de Comida / Pot Luck Traigan un…

Englewood Veteran’s Garden – 2016 Opening Day

Englewood Veteran’s Garden – 2016 Opening Day

Rain or shine! The OPENING DATE for the 2016 garden growing season will be SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 2016, 9:30am. If you are interested in growing your own organic groceries, interested in workshops about wellness, seed starting, composting, growing herbs and veggies, how to cook the…

Hermitage Street Community Garden – Opening Day 2016

Hermitage Street Community Garden – Opening Day 2016

If you are interested in growing your own organic groceries this year, interested in workshops about seed starting, composting, growing herbs and veggies, how to cook the nutritious vegetables you grow? And much, much more, come garden with us! Contact our Garden Director at hermitagestreetcommunitygarden@gmail.com.

Chicago FarmWorks Volunteer Days

Chicago FarmWorks Volunteer Days

Chicago FarmWorks fights two issues associated with poverty: unemployment and hunger. Utilizing a two acre farm in the East Garfield Park neighborhood, we distribute local produce of the highest quality to those who need it most, and help people overcoming multiple barriers to employment find…

2015 Chicago Community Gardeners Association Resources Committee Report

Hello Chicago Community Gardeners!  Here is the report from the Resources Committee on its activities in 2015.   For the March 2015 Third Annual CCGA Conference, the Resources Committee supplied plant material for the Container Workshop, gathered and distributed gently used tools and other garden…

CCGA Spring Annual Flower Distribution: Big Turnout!

Saturday April 9, 2016 started with snow and ice on the ground and temperatures in the twenties. But that did not stop community gardeners from coming to the Center for Green Technology to receive spring annuals grown by the CCGA Resources Committee! More than ninety…