ReBuilding Exchange Offering DIY Workshops
Our friends at ReBuilding Exchange are offering three handy gardening-related workshops this fall. Check them out below: Intro to Canning w/Pear Tree Preserves Chicago Bee Basics DIY Rain Barrel
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Root Cellars to Refrigeration: Food Preservation 101
Speaker: Tim Heppner, Ecotelligent Design Audience: General How can you enjoy the fruits and vegetables from your summer garden all year round? Tim Heppner takes us through homesteading 101: preserving. He will show multiple methods that are used to preserve foods such as canning, dehydration,…
Paper Fashion Party
The Papermaker’s Garden at Columbia College Chicago presents a slow fashion experiment that transforms plants into fibers, fibers into paper, and paper into clothing and accessories. Events include: A recycled fabric paper pulping demonstration by Jillian Bruschera of ‘The Mobile Mill’, large (4ftx10ft!) sheet formation,…
CCCG Perennial & Flower Giveaway at Sherwood Peace Garden
FREE PERENNIAL FLOWERS AND GRASSES for your COMMUNITY GARDEN WHEN FRIDAY, JULY 25 Sign in starting 11:30 am Pick up plants from 12:00 – 2:30 pm WHERE Sherwood Peace Garden Princeton and 61st Streets (one block west of Dan Ryan Expressway)…
Urban Ag Summer Camp
Four-day summer camp: July 14-July 17, 9-3 pm Visit Chicago’s best urban farms Meet leaders in the local food movement Learn about jobs in the emerging green economy Sponsored by Triton College’s new Sustainable Agriculture Technology program, this experiential 4-day summer camp is designed to…
Bowmanville Garden Walk
The 16th anniversary Bowmanville Garden Walk is Saturday, July 12, 2014, from 10 AM until 4:30 PM. Pick up a map at the welcome table located on Bowmanville Avenue at Bell in the Greenspace garden. Visit the Bowmanville Community Gardens along Bowmanville Avenue and the Gateway Gardens…
Ginkgo Organic Gardens 20th Anniversary Party
Ginkgo Organic Gardens celebrates 20 years outgrowing hunger! Ginkgo Organic Gardens is an all-volunteer community garden in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood that grows fruits and vegetables for those in need using only organic methods. Since 1994, Ginkgo has been out-growing hunger by donating our harvests to…
Neighborhood Housing Flag Installation
Come out and join us as we hold a small ceremony to commemorate the hanging of our light pole banners. These banners, made possible by Historic District residents, a matching grant from Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago, corporate sponsors and elected officials, will be hung…