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Community Tomato Tasting and Seed Saving Demonstration

Community Tomato Tasting and Seed Saving Demonstration

Taste heirloom and open-pollinated tomatoes and collect the seeds from your favorites! Choosing tomatoes from pictures in seed catalogs just isn’t the same as choosing one tomato based on taste at a  tomato tasting/seed swap!   Bring your best homegrown or farmers’ market heirloom or open-pollinated tomatoes…

Windy City Harvest: Home-Scale Aquaponics

Windy City Harvest: Home-Scale Aquaponics

Arturo Velasquez Institute Greenhouse Andy McGhee, Windy City Harvest aquaponics coordinator

Yoga in the Garden at Vedgewater

Yoga in the Garden at Vedgewater

What’s more peaceful than sun salutations in the garden? Come join us for a free yoga class at Vedgewater, taught by an experienced professional instructor, Mary Beth Johnson. The class will be geared toward gardeners and the ailments that can come with gardening (knees, wrists, low…

Tomato Fest

Tomato Fest

Join local food and gardening advocates as we highlight the many ways you can enjoy your bountiful tomato harvest all year long. The Chicago Park District, Slow Food Midwest Ark of Taste Committee, Illinois Extension Master Gardeners and the Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance will be…

What’s Happening in the Garden? – Peterson Garden Project

Join us for our free class, What’s Happening in the Garden?, taught in a different Peterson Garden Project community garden every month. For the month of September, we’ll talk about: -adjusting the garden to cooler temperatures -fall pests and diseases and what to do about…

Windy City Harvest: Excel for Small Farm Crop Planning

Windy City Harvest: Excel for Small Farm Crop Planning

Arturo Velasquez Institute Greenhouse Erin Matson, Windy City Harvest apprenticeship instructor $39 This workshop will cover how to utilize Excel to plan out a season of continuous annual vegetable crop production on your small farm or community garden plot. A crop plan excel template typically…

Openlands Fruit & Nut Tree Distribution – Want Fruit Trees in Your Community Garden?

If you would like fruit or nut trees for your community garden, please submit an application here (http://goo.gl/forms/XIblsfYBjo). The deadline is fast approaching and is September 7th, 2015. Please contact Gabriela Naveda at Openlands for the list of fruit trees available or if you have…

CCGA Fall Perennial Distribution – September 25th & 26th

The CCGA Fall Perennial Distribution is Coming! In September, the CCGA Resources Committee will be distributing more perennials thanks to the efforts of Scott Byron Landscape Company. Here are the details: On Friday, September 25, Scott Byron will DELIVER PLANTS to three locations: New Horizons…

CCGA Quarterly Membership Meeting – Wednesday, September 23rd – 5:30 pm

Hello, CCGA members, It’s been a long time since we have had a membership gathering so we could mix and mingle, share our stories and news, share some stuff we no longer have a use for, and talk about what you all would like CCGA…

Ravinia in the Garden – Saturday August 22nd, 2015

“RAVINIA IN THE GARDEN” Join us as we celebrate a productive 4th Season. Network with friends and learn about new additions to the garden landscape. Enjoy live entertainment and delicious food. Support our first Fundraiser at Kuumba Tre-Ahm Community Garden. Date: Saturday, August 22, 2015…