Please join us at 10:00am Saturday December 10th at the Chicago Center for Green Technology at 445 N. Sacramento Blvd. The meeting AGENDA includes: CCGA Working Team reports and preliminary work-shop planning for the 2017 CCGA Annual Conference. We’ll meet on the 2nd floor…
Friday November 11th the CCGA held a new kind of distribution, making tropical plants available to any interested community gardener for a small fee, just $5 per person. It was our one and only “Last Call” signaled not by flashing lights at Symphony Hall, or…
We’re not done yet! We have more plants to get to our gardeners, so ATTENTION PLANT LOVERS… The CCGA Resources Committee has received several end-of-the-season donations of beautiful tropical plants that could be wintered over as house plants including some lovely ferns. We also have…
Please join us at 9:00am Saturday, November 12th, 2016 at the Bethel Terrace Senior Residence located at 900 W. 63rd Parkway. The meeting agenda includes: CCGA committee reports and update planning for the 2017 CCGA Annual Conference. Bring a snack or drink to share if you can.…
Combining history and horticulture, the CCGA held its final plant distribution of the year on October 15 in the Garfield Park Conservatory’s Jensen Room. We were greeted on Saturday morning not with rain and soggy fields, but with beautiful – and dry – flowering bulbs! The…
On Friday September 30, CCGA volunteers showed up early in the morning at New Horizons Community Garden to prepare for the CCGA Resource Committee’s final Perennial Distribution of the year. Scott Byron’s (really) long truck arrived at 8:30, and was bursting with a multitude of pots of donated plants in seemingly endless…
Sunday September 18, Mamie Grey, LaVerne Morris and Ellen Newcomer from the CCGA Resources committee met a group of ten high school students from different Chicago-area high schools. All of them participating in a service club started by a very promising high school student named…
Tour the Hermitage Street Community and Veterans Gardens in Englewood. Meet at Miles Davis Magnet Academy, 6740 South Paulina Ave. Contact Bea Jasper at 312-479-0110 for more details.
North Lawndale Youth Will Travel To White House To Accept Environmental Award Children from Chicago Youth Centers’ ABC Polk Bros. Youth Center to be recognized by the Environmental Protection Agency for their community garden. CHICAGO, Aug. 2, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — On August 15, six members of Chicago Youth…
Tickets are now on sale for Advocates for Urban Agriculture’s 2nd Annual Grown in Chicago: Summer Soiree & Showcase! This is a unique event to celebrate the urban agriculture community and continue to propel it forward. Live Music, Local Beverages, and Beautiful Scenery! Enjoy this…