A Tale of Three Sisters: Uptown teenagers perform Native American legend in an urban garden and grow the stage set! Teenagers in Uptown have a unique summer job at Winthrop Harmony Arts Garden as they work for Green Scene Chicago, adapting an Iroquois legend, growing…
The CCGA Education team brought an important and necessary topic to gardeners and presenter Allen Lawrance from the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum hit all the sweet spots of gardening with and for beneficial insects. Folks were clearly interested in the very focused presentation. The book…
Fifteen community gardens were represented at the Saturday, July 15 Mini-Distribution. Lots of vegetable seedlings, native plants, and ornamentals were distributed without cost, and—best of all—it was a great opportunity for all gardeners to compare notes and stories. Community gardeners are the best!
Sarah Mallin, a chef and caterer of very creative ability and inventive and inspired food preparation gave a workshop: Growing Herbs for Flavor, Nutrition, and Health, presented by CCGA’s Education Committee on Saturday June 10th 2017. Sarah led off the workshop with a fascinating history…
Elite Growers will once again donate over a thousand perennials for distribution to Chicago Community Gardens and the CCGA Resources Committee has planned another large plant distribution for Friday July 21st at 10:30am, see the full details below.
The CCGA Education Committee is hosting a new workshop! Do you need an army of green lacewings, a crew of lady beetles, or a stagmomantid team to help in your garden? Come meet the good bugs that provide natural pest control in our landscapes and…
Are you a garden leader or volunteer interested in co-creating a vision and plan for the CCGA as an organization? Your input is needed! Now that summer is winding down and before we start planning for our 6th annual conference in 2018, we’ve landed on…
The CCGA Education Committee is hosting a new culinary herb workshop! Learn how to grow, cook, preserve and make simple home remedies with herbs in this informative and tasty workshop about the wide range of herbs easily grown in our Chicago gardens. Chef and farmer…
The CCGA Resources Committee received donated plant material that it wanted to pass along to community gardeners this last weekend, and it went off nicely, even with short notice. There were representatives from seventeen community gardens, and they picked up dahlia tubers, gladiolus bulbs, miscanthus…
The next CCGA Coordinating Meeting will be Tuesday, June 27th 2017 at 6:30pm at the Chicago Center for Green Technology CCGT at 445 N. Sacramento Blvd. and our focus will be reporting from our June 3rd membership retreat, the venue for the 2018 conference and…