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…
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…
Right now, the Resources Committee is growing annuals, tropical plants and succulents in two greenhouses: one at Austin High School and one at the Center for Green Technology. This active group is propagating their stock, and will soon begin to grow spring ephemerals like violas,…
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…
On October 24, 2015, the Garfield Park Conservatory graciously hosted our 2015 Bulb distribution. The CCGA Resource Committee distributed 5400 bulbs to 65 community gardens! Special thanks to Mattie Wilson of the Garfield Park Conservatory, who not only gave an excellent presentation on bulb planting…
CCGA wants to thank Scott Byron & Co., a prominent Illinois landscape company, for soliciting other landscapers and growers for plant material, for donating material itself, and then gathering and delivering all the donations to this year’s North and South CCGA locations. The donors included:…
If you would like fruit or nut trees for your community garden, please submit an application here (http://goo.gl/forms/XIblsfYBjo). The deadline is fast approaching and is September 7th, 2015. Please contact Gabriela Naveda at Openlands for the list of fruit trees available or if you have…
The CCGA Fall Perennial Distribution is Coming! In September, the CCGA Resources Committee will be distributing more perennials thanks to the efforts of Scott Byron Landscape Company. Here are the details: On Friday, September 25, Scott Byron will DELIVER PLANTS to three locations: New Horizons…
On Friday August 7, 2015, the Resources Committee of CCGA received 2700 more perennials from Elite Growers! Thanks to a great group of volunteer community gardeners, we were able to sort the plants in record time, and by 2:00 p.m. we had distributed all of…