The single best resource for growing fruit trees in community gardens in the Chicago area – MidFEx is a club of fruit tree growers located here in Chicago. The MidFEx grafting workshop will be held this year at the Chicago Botanic Garden on Sunday April…
In early February, Lucia Jastrzebski, proprietor of a commercial greenhouse in our area, gave CCGA three truckloads of garden-related items, including hundreds of flats and inserts for seed starting, many kinds of pots, tools, tomato supports and much more. The Resources Committee will use some…
In early January, long-time community garden supporter Mary Hill contacted the Resource Committee to ask if we would be interested in the contents of her garage. We had a great time with Mary going through her accumulation of garden-related materials, and salvaged a considerable number…
On a cold gray day in early February, the Logistics Committee for the CCGA Annual Conference got together and made gorgeous centerpieces out of plants grown by the Resources Committee. Check out the photo above: Gina Jamison, Philip Englert, Angela Taylor and LaVerne Morris showing…
The 4th CCGA annual conference is at the South Shore Cultural Center on Saturday March 5th at 9am. Registration is now open here. The cost to attend is $10 to help cover our costs and payment can be made when registering or in-person on March…
This will be the final planning meeting before the 2016 Spring Conference so the agenda will be focused on final preparation and assignments. The meeting starts at 10am at the offices of NeighborSpace in the Green Technology Center at 445 N Sacramento Blvd. Parking is…
Soup & Bread is a community meal project and a fun, grassroots way to raise money for hunger-relief organizations and other good causes and is based at the Hideout, a bar and music club in Chicago. The Chicago series happens on Wednesday evenings from 5:30…
The next CCGA coordinating meeting is this weekend, Saturday, November 14th from 10:00 to Noon at the Center For Green Technology, 445 N Sacramento Blvd. We will celebrate the end of the summer growing season together and welcome fall with a Harvest Potluck Brunch! Please…
This year, the CCGA Resource Committee hosted four “Mini-Distributions” of plant material to community gardeners. “Mini-Distribution” is our title for an unanticipated donation of plant or other material that the Resource Committee wants to distribute to CCGA members as promptly as possible. Despite the necessarily…
Thanks to the outreach of Erik Hernandez of the Resources Committee, CCGA has received a donation of over thirty garden tools, most of them brand new! Erik contacted ReStore, which is a retail store whose inventory is compiled by Habitat for Humanity. We encourage you…