Much Ado About Dirt Brought to you by After School Matters’ Green Scene Summer Stock Teens August 12, 2015 at 12 pm Winthrop Harmony Arts Garden 4919 North Winthrop, Chicago, 60640 In case of rain: Bezazian Library Auditorium 1226 West Ainslie, Chicago 60640 Featuring the…
Arturo Velasquez Institute Greenhouse Britt Calendo, Windy City Harvest PCC wellness farm coordinator. $39 Learn how to extend your spring or fall growing season to 9-months or even year round production. Explore what crops and varieties perform best in Chicago. Specific techniques will be covered…
Our friends at Elite Growers have notified the CCGA Resources Committee that they have more perennials to donate to Chicago Community Gardeners, so we will host another Summer Perennial Distribution. Location & Date – Friday August 7th, 2015 starting at 11am New Horizons Community Garden…
Elite Growers, the well-known Midwestern plant experts, provided a bounty of diverse perennials for the July 17 CCGA Summer Perennial Distribution. Over 2700 perennials came off their two trucks; CCGA volunteers then sorted and made groups of a wide variety of perennials to distribute…
Come on out again this year and enjoy the gardens of Garfield Park. There will be food, fun and lots of family entertainment
The Bowmanville garden walk features hosted gardens, where the garden owners are there to welcome you into their garden and talk about their efforts. The hospitality overflows. This garden walk hosts an Ask the Master Gardener table at the Welcome booth, where University of IL…
Hello Chicago Community Gardeners, Our thanks to Elite Growers, who are contributing a truck load (or maybe two) of perennials to CCGA for our Summer Distribution! On Friday July 17, the CCGA Resources Committee will have a Summer Perennial Plant Distribution at the Sherwood Peace…
With farm to school programs kids win, farmers win and communities win! Join Illinois Stewardship Alliance, in partnership with the Illinois Farm to School Network, for one of two exciting workshops highlighting successful local farm to school projects, the U.S. Farm to School Act of…
We would love to have CCGA members join Chicago Honey Co-op and Slow Food Chicago for our annual Sweet Summer Solstice potluck. The most affordable fundraiser in Chicago is happening on June 20 at Rancho Verde (headquarters of Christy Webber Landscaping), just East of the Center…
This Saturday, June 20, the CCGA Resources Committee will offer more free vegetable, herb and flower seedlings, as well as seeds, to community gardens. Here are the details: WHEN: Saturday, June 20, 2015 from 8:00 a.m. til the plants and seeds are gone WHERE: New…