Would you like a free compost bin? The CCGA Resources Committee will be giving compost bins to community gardeners this Saturday, November 5, 2016, from 10:00 a.m. to Noon, on the east side of the Center for Green Technology, 445 North Sacramento Boulevard. There will also be…
Combining history and horticulture, the CCGA held its final plant distribution of the year on October 15 in the Garfield Park Conservatory’s Jensen Room. We were greeted on Saturday morning not with rain and soggy fields, but with beautiful – and dry – flowering bulbs! The…
On Friday September 30, CCGA volunteers showed up early in the morning at New Horizons Community Garden to prepare for the CCGA Resource Committee’s final Perennial Distribution of the year. Scott Byron’s (really) long truck arrived at 8:30, and was bursting with a multitude of pots of donated plants in seemingly endless…
The 2016 CCGA BULB DISTRIBUTION! The CCGA Resources Committee will hold its annual bulb distribution on Saturday, October 15, 2016. We hope you will come and get a nice sampling of bulbs to plant now for beautiful spring flowers. Here are the details: When: …
ANOTHER PERENNIAL DISTRIBUTION The CCGA Resources Committee will hold the final big perennial distribution of 2016 TO PRE-REGISTER, EMAIL THE FOLLOWING TO mamie@uic.edu : 1)Name of Contact, 2) Name of Garden, 3) Address/Location of Garden Here are the details: When: Friday, September 30, 2016 …
Sunday September 18, Mamie Grey, LaVerne Morris and Ellen Newcomer from the CCGA Resources committee met a group of ten high school students from different Chicago-area high schools. All of them participating in a service club started by a very promising high school student named…
Join us to learn how to organize all aspects of the garden from recruiting members and gaining supporters to practical ways to self organize including using apps to keep track of projects. We will also work together to create a design map for your site.…
Tour the Hermitage Street Community and Veterans Gardens in Englewood. Meet at Miles Davis Magnet Academy, 6740 South Paulina Ave. Contact Bea Jasper at 312-479-0110 for more details.
Thanks to the efforts of one of CCGA’s most able and knowledgeable community gardeners, May Toy, the CCGA Resources Committee received permission from Rush Hospital to dig out large, drought-resistant perennials from a Rush site earlier this month. For six hot hours on each of…
Despite the hot, muggy and threatening weather, representatives from 84 community gardens came to the CCGA Resources Committee’s Second 2016 Perennial Distribution at New Horizons Garden! Each community garden representative received over thirty plants. Elite Growers again provided over 2600 perennials (prominent among them were …