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CCGA Annual Spring Vegetable & Flower Distribution – Saturday, May 6 @ 10am!

Community gardeners, please join us on May 6 for our Annual Spring Vegetable and Flower Seedling Distribution! This season, the CCGA Resources committee has cultivated 28 varieties of Tomatoes! We’ll also have eggplant, peppers, parsley, chives, hyssop, clary sage, brussel sprouts, cabbage, kale, broccoli, thyme,…

CCGA Resources Annual Spring Distribution & Workshop April 8th

On a delightful, sunny morning, a day to open windows and let fresh air in, a welcome spring day after several days of rain, the GGCA Resources committee held its Annual Spring distribution April 8th. The morning began with a talk by Val Kehoe, Horticulture…

CCGA Resources Committee 2016 Annual Report

The CCGA Resources Committee has presented their annual report for 2016:

23rd Annual Pullman Garden Walk – A Garden Walk and Tea, Saturday June 24th

The Historic Pullman Garden Club, with co-sponsors the Historic Pullman Foundation, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency and Pullman State Historic Site, invite you back to the Victorian era of the 1880’s during the 23rd Annual Garden Walk – A Garden Walk and Tea, on Saturday June…

Master Urban Farmer Training Program Spring/Summer Session 2017

The University of Illinois Extension has just announced an Urban Ag training program being held on 12 consecutive Wednesdays from May 10th through July 26th from 5:30pm to 8:30pm. Location:  the Children’s Farm at The Center, 12700 S. Southwest Highway, Palos Park, IL. Intended for…

Next CCGA Coordinating Meeting – Tuesday April 25th, 6:30pm at CCGT

The next CCGA Coordinating Meeting is Tuesday April 25th at 6:30 pm at the Chicago Center for Green Technology CCGT at 445 N. Sacramento Blvd. and our focus will be planning for our Membership retreat and a review of the recent annual CCGA conference. We’ll…

It’s the First CCGA Seedling Distribution of 2017!

Join us on April 8 at 10:00am for the first CCGA plant distribution of the year. Following a short presentation, a nice assortment of spring annuals will be available including pansies, violas, linaria, calendula, cerinthe, anemones, and alyssum. These annuals are cold-hardy and will be…

Montrose Metra Community Garden – 2017 Green & Growing Speaker Series

Presented by Montrose Metra Community Gardens, the Ravenswood Manor Garden Club and Chicago Public Library At The Sulzer Regional Library, 4455 N. Lincoln Avenue Chicago IL 60625 Monday, March 20 at 7pm In the Garden: What’s New, What’s Old and What Works Speaker: Jennifer Paravola…

Fruit Trees for Your Community Garden

  If you want some apple, pear or plum trees for your community garden or want to find out what grafting fruit tress is all about then do attend the Midwest Fruit Explorers (MidFEx)  grafting workshop on Sunday March 26, 2017 at 1pm. The purpose…

March Seed Starting Workshop a Big Success

A capacity crowd of ninety-one community gardeners and friends attended the Resource Committee’s morning workshop March 4 at the Center for Green Technology!  Additional chairs were placed in the aisles on either side of the room and at the back of the room and still…