The Plant Chicago is announcing their rotating community table at their summer farmers market for the 2016 season. The market is held each Saturday from June 4through September 10, from 10am-2pm. They are looking for community farms, school gardens and other urban farming projects in…
Help us celebrate our 20th year! Kilbourn Park Organic Greenhouse will offer more than 150 varieties of organically-grown vegetable, herb, and flower seedlings. Customers can expect a wide variety of open-pollinated and heirloom tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants. Other highlights include an assortment of herbs, greens…
Wow! Ellen Trenn-Mack and her two neighbors wasted very little time planting the Spring Flowering plants, we distributed a few weeks ago, at their neighborhood playlot, in planters and across the front of the park. So glad to see they are happy in their new home.…
These photos show a few of the results! Share your favorite CCGA photos with us!
Hello Community Gardeners, The CCGA Resources Committee will hold a vegetable seedling distribution on Saturday, May 14, 2016 at the Center for Green Technology, 445 N. Sacramento. More details will follow soon. In the meantime, please tell all your friends…
CCGA volunteer Erik Hernandez, now on the staff of Neighbor Space with this newly awarded Chicago Conservation Corps Leader ID presented April 14 at the 16th Annual Volunteer Recognition Ceremony at the Chicago Academy of Sciences/Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum. This recognition of…
Hello Chicago Community Gardeners! Here is the report from the Resources Committee on its activities in 2015. For the March 2015 Third Annual CCGA Conference, the Resources Committee supplied plant material for the Container Workshop, gathered and distributed gently used tools and other garden…
Saturday April 9, 2016 started with snow and ice on the ground and temperatures in the twenties. But that did not stop community gardeners from coming to the Center for Green Technology to receive spring annuals grown by the CCGA Resources Committee! More than ninety…
Robert and Patricia Hart, wedded Tuesday, April 5, 2016 Congratulations!
The Rebuilding Exchange has just released their spring session workshop schedule. They offer everything from traditional woodworking classes to one-day “Make It Take It” classes. In addition, you can attend various sustainability classes, like Composting 101 and Chickens in the City. For those who are…