The Howard Area Community Garden‘s first Spring Plant Sale will be in full swing from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, May 14 and Sunday, May 15, in the garden at the corner of Hermitage and Juneway in the North of Howard neighborhood (Rogers…
Vegetable Seedling Distribution 445 N. Sacramento Blvd Saturday, May 14, 2016 Register Now! Hello Community Gardeners, The Resources Committee has grown hundreds of vegetable seedlings to kick-start your gardens: 18 types of tomatoes (including some gorgeous heirlooms), sweet and hot peppers, kale, rosemary, brussels sprouts,…
Help us celebrate our 20th year! Kilbourn Park Organic Greenhouse will offer more than 150 varieties of organically-grown vegetable, herb, and flower seedlings. Customers can expect a wide variety of open-pollinated and heirloom tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants. Other highlights include an assortment of herbs, greens…
Wow! Ellen Trenn-Mack and her two neighbors wasted very little time planting the Spring Flowering plants, we distributed a few weeks ago, at their neighborhood playlot, in planters and across the front of the park. So glad to see they are happy in their new home.…
These photos show a few of the results! Share your favorite CCGA photos with us!
Hello Community Gardeners, The CCGA Resources Committee will hold a vegetable seedling distribution on Saturday, May 14, 2016 at the Center for Green Technology, 445 N. Sacramento. More details will follow soon. In the meantime, please tell all your friends…
Hello Chicago Community Gardeners! Here is the report from the Resources Committee on its activities in 2015. For the March 2015 Third Annual CCGA Conference, the Resources Committee supplied plant material for the Container Workshop, gathered and distributed gently used tools and other garden…
Saturday April 9, 2016 started with snow and ice on the ground and temperatures in the twenties. But that did not stop community gardeners from coming to the Center for Green Technology to receive spring annuals grown by the CCGA Resources Committee! More than ninety…
The CCGA Resources Committee will hold its annual Spring Flower Distribution at 9am April 9, 2016 at the Center for Green Technology, 445 N. Sacramento. Pansies, cerinthe, delphiniums, alyssum, linaria, nemesia: all good early pollen sources for our insect friends, and beautiful colors for us!…
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…