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SUMMARY:THIS IS CCGA - 3rd Annual Gathering
DESCRIPTION:When and where is the Gathering?\nMarch 7th\, from 8:30 am to 1:30 pm (Doors open at 8:30 am\, Welcome kicks off at 9:30 am) \nWest Town Academy \n534 N Sacramento Blvd\, Chicago\, IL 60612 \n(Across the street from the Center for Green Technology) \n \nThe 3rd Annual Spring Gathering of the Chicago Community Gardeners Association will highlight the most powerful resource available to Chicago’s gardeners: each other. You are formally invited both to bask in the benefits gathered by your fellow gardeners and to become part of this important team. \nREGISTER HERE\n  \nWhat will happen at the Gathering?\nThere will be lots of action to pack into the 4-hour conference\, all centered on sharing and eliciting creative approaches to common community gardening challenges and opportunities. Based on gardener feedback\, we’ll continue the tradition of holding an array of expert-facilitated workshops. We’ll also have a garden gear raffle\, and get a tour of the CCGA website. All that plus a light lunch. \nExactly what gardener-led workshops are you offering this year?\nHere are the topics: \n\n\nCreative Community Building in Community Gardens\nA healthy vibrant community garden is one where people feel involved\, engaged\, and joyful\, whether they are gardeners or not. Community gardens are ideal places for communities to gather for fun\, for social justice\, for fellowship. To think outside the flower box\, come to this session where community gardeners will share creative ways they have activated community gardening space beyond gardening.\nCommunity Gardens as Message Sites for Soil and Water Security\nThe United Nations General Assembly designated 2015 for yearlong soil celebrations\, as a way to increase understanding of the importance of soil for food security and essential ecosystem functions. Join this session to discuss how community gardens are urgent and essential social places for understanding the importance of soil and water in everyday life. Community gardeners can leverage community gardens as important dissemination stations for messaging the crucial role that soil and water play in global health.\nBuilding Garden Structures\nThis session walks participants through building trellises and compost bins in a unique\, hands-on way. Participants will build these structures and learn about their usefulness in the garden.\nEdible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist\nFruit trees\, berry bushes\, brambles and more. Learn how to apply the basic principles of permaculture to create an edible perennial landscape in your community garden. Often referred to as “forest gardening” or “food forests”\, panel presenters will discuss how these principles are being applied to private\, small backyards\, to community gardens in Chicago vacant lots\, and to large school campuses to create lush\, bountiful\, and low maintenance gardens\nDigging in – Transforming Garden Conflict into Constructive Growth\nConflict in a community garden can be disheartening\, especially when the words “community garden” strike up images of everyone working together in harmony. However\, conflict is a natural part of relationships and can be quite transformative. This interactive session will explore creative approaches to transforming conflict in which we view conflict as a valuable opportunity to grow and increase our understanding of ourselves and others. The session will offer resources that can hopefully strengthen and build not only your garden team\, but other teams in your life\, as well. Narrative mediation is a resource that helps us think of conflicts as a story and opens possibilities to growing new stories of relationships we prefer. Appreciative Inquiry provides a shift from traditional problem solving to envisioning possibilities for the future based upon appreciating and valuing what we are doing well. These approaches do not ignore conflict or problems\, but rather recognize conflict as a desire for something else. This workshop will be facilitated by Kristin Bodiford\, who teaches in both the Masters of Conflict Resolution and Graduate School of Social Work programs at Dominican University\nSpring Preparation and Planting Tips\nSpring is an exciting time- seeds are started\, soil warms up\, garden teams come together. This session explores the ways in which gardeners can kick off spring\, whether by seed starting\, garden clean up\, or knowing how to get a volunteer crew lined up for a big work day.\n\n\n \nConference Agenda (tentative)\n8:30 am- Doors Open\, Check In\, and Last Minute Registration Begins \n\nReceive name tag and raffle number for Garden Gear Raffle\nSign up for two workshops [LINK]. Each workshop will be included in both sessions.\nSign up to be on one of CCGA’s action committees (next formal CCGA meeting set for April 11\, 2015 @ the Center for Green Technology)\nSurf the Chicago Community Gardening Association Website in the Computer Classrooms\n\n9:30 am- Welcome from Interim CCGA Steering Committee \n10:00 am to 10:50 am – Networking Workshops Session One \n11:00 am to 11:50 am- Networking Workshops Session Two \n12:00 pm – 1:30 pm – Lunch\, Exhibits\, Raffle (raffle tickets pulled at 12:30 — must be present to win)\, Neighborhood Networking/ Alliancing \nWhat has CCGA done since last year’s Gathering?\nTons! In addition to the Gathering\, we held seasonal workshops\, distributed thousands of free perennials and bulbs\, and more\, helping hundreds of gardeners make their dreams grow. Check out the full list of our 2014 accomplishments. \nThis sounds great! Sign me up! How do I register\, and how much does it cost?\nPlease register online (insert link to google form) for this conference by March 1\, 2015 to reserve your space. Entrance fee to this conference is on a sliding scale — please pay what you can (recommended donation is $10\, to cover lunch cost). \nIs there any other way I can contribute?\nSure! We’re a volunteer-run organization\, and we need you. The Steering Committee invites you to volunteer to give CCGA a hand during the entire year — to help with the workshops\, plant giveaways\, and event organizing\, and to suggest sites and activities. We’ll be organizing volunteers at the March 7th gathering and will also soon accept volunteers at the website. \nThe 3nd Annual Conference of Chicago’s Community Gardeners will be a day for connecting\, learning\, sharing ideas\, and working together to grow strong roots for the future of community gardening in Chicago. Space is limited\, so please register early. We hope to see you there!\nSincerely\, \nThe CCGA Interim Steering Committee
URL:https://chicagocommunitygardens.org/event/save-the-date-the-third-annual-ccga-gathering/
LOCATION:Greater West Town Training Partnership\, 500 N. Sacramento Blvd.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60612\, United States
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SUMMARY:Windy City Harvest: Small Farm Season Extension
DESCRIPTION:Arturo Velasquez Institute Greenhouse\nBritt Calendo\, Windy City Harvest PCC wellness farm coordinator.\n$39 \nLearn 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 such as using row cover\, building simple low tunnels and cold frames or even creating protected cultivation in a hoophouse. This workshop includes a hands-on basic low tunnel build out activity. This workshop is instructed by Britt Calendo\, WCH PCC Wellness Farm Coordinator.
URL:https://chicagocommunitygardens.org/event/windy-city-harvest-small-farm-season-extension/
LOCATION:Chicago Botanic Garden\, 1000 Lake Cook Rd\, Glencoe\, IL\, 60022\, United States
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SUMMARY:Honeybees and Horticulture
DESCRIPTION:Free Adult Workshop: Honeybees and Horticulture\nBeekeeping is an ancient craft\, practiced in all world cultures except the arctic. Deep respect is acquired from learning about what bees and other migrating animals eat in our neighborhoods. Foraging only nectar and pollen\, honeybees produce clean\, healthy food that embodies our environment in taste\, texture and beauty. Prairie remnants provide an amazing pallet of perennials and annual wild flowers that many of us don’t recognize. The presentation will show the trees\, shrubs and other flowering plants that are essential for insect health and which abound in the Chicago region in restoration prairies\, neglected lots\, and local backyards. Presented by Michael Thompson\, Farm Manager\, Chicago Honey Co-op.
URL:https://chicagocommunitygardens.org/event/honeybees-and-horticulture/
LOCATION:Chicago Cultural Center\, 78 E Washington St\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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