Tag: community gardening

Weather Resilience Workshop: Little Village

Weather Resilience Workshop: Little Village

The City of Chicago is hosting a series of neighborhood workshops to address the region’s resilience to incidents of extreme weather, especially rainstorms that cause floods and related damage. The purpose of the workshops is to identify techniques and infrastructure improvements that foster sustainability and…

3rd Annual Urban Livestock Expo

3rd Annual Urban Livestock Expo

In search of a fun and informative Valentine’s Day excursion? What says “I love ewe” better than taking your date to the third annual Urban Livestock Expo? Angelic Organics Learning Center, Advocates for Urban Agriculture (AUA), and the Chicagoland Chicken Enthusiasts will present the 3rd…

Weather Resilience Workshop: Humboldt Park

Weather Resilience Workshop: Humboldt Park

The City of Chicago is hosting a series of neighborhood workshops to address the region’s resilience to incidents of extreme weather, especially rainstorms that cause floods and related damage. The purpose of the workshops is to identify techniques and infrastructure improvements that foster sustainability and…

Weather Resilience Workshop: North Lawndale

Weather Resilience Workshop: North Lawndale

The City of Chicago is hosting a series of neighborhood workshops to address the region’s resilience to incidents of extreme weather, especially rainstorms that cause floods and related damage. The purpose of the workshops is to identify techniques and infrastructure improvements that foster sustainability and…

Weather Resilience Workshop: Austin

Weather Resilience Workshop: Austin

The City of Chicago is hosting a series of neighborhood workshops to address the region’s resilience to incidents of extreme weather, especially rainstorms that cause floods and related damage. The purpose of the workshops is to identify techniques and infrastructure improvements that foster sustainability and…

CCGA: What we did in 2014, and what’s coming in 2015.

Happy New Season, Chicago community Gardeners! We want to bring you up to date on CCGA‘s 2014 activities as well as our plans for 2015. In early 2014, CCGA formed an Interim Steering Committee which has updated the website, written bylaws, and planned numerous gardener…

St. John Garden Club – Spring Forward 2016 – Pre-Sale Discount

St. John Garden Club – Spring Forward 2016 – Pre-Sale Discount

PRESALE DISCOUNT ENDS 1-31-15 Looking for support for an event we are offering in March 2016. Spring Forward 2016 is an event to support the gardening community. As a very small niche garden club we have been able to gain support from two speakers who…

Corona Cares tool grants available

Corona Cares tool grants available

Corona offers a very limited number of landscape tool grants to gardens on a first-come, first-served basis. The application is very simple.

6th annual MLK Food Justice and Sustainability Weekend

6th annual MLK Food Justice and Sustainability Weekend

KAM Isaiah Israel’s Social Justice Committee presents the 6th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Food Justice and Sustainability Weekend. The focus this year is ‘Climate Change and Civil Rights.’ The weekend long education and advocacy event will include workshops on social justice, food and environmental…

Opening Reception – 625 AT 6:25 SUSTENANCE: CHICAGO AND THE FOOD CHAIN

Opening Reception – 625 AT 6:25 SUSTENANCE: CHICAGO AND THE FOOD CHAIN

In Sustenance: Chicago and the Food Chain, photographers Amanda Rivkin and Heriberto T Quiroz document the realities of food access in Chicago through the eyes of children at home, school, and in their communities. The installation will be framed with a discussion of where Chicago…