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CCGA Fall Perennial Distribution – September 25th & 26th

The CCGA Fall Perennial Distribution is Coming! In September, the CCGA Resources Committee will be distributing more perennials thanks to the efforts of Scott Byron Landscape Company. Here are the details: On Friday, September 25, Scott Byron will DELIVER PLANTS to three locations: New Horizons…

CCGA Quarterly Membership Meeting – Wednesday, September 23rd – 5:30 pm

Hello, CCGA members, It’s been a long time since we have had a membership gathering so we could mix and mingle, share our stories and news, share some stuff we no longer have a use for, and talk about what you all would like CCGA…

Elite Growers Gives CCGA Another Big Gift!

On Friday August 7, 2015, the Resources Committee of CCGA received 2700 more perennials from Elite Growers!  Thanks to a great group of volunteer community gardeners, we were able to sort the plants in record time, and by 2:00 p.m. we had distributed all of…

Ravinia in the Garden – Saturday August 22nd, 2015

Hello CCGA’ers, here is an event that’s just too good to miss is happening right in the City on Chicago’s West Side. Bring your own chair and something to drink and for a $20 donation (no checks please) you will hear amazing live musicand eat…

Another Summer Perennial Plant Distribution – Friday, August 7, 2015

Our friends at Elite Growers have notified the CCGA Resources Committee that they have more perennials to donate to Chicago Community Gardeners, so we will host another Summer Perennial Distribution. Location  & Date – Friday August 7th, 2015 starting at 11am New Horizons Community Garden…

Elite Growers’ Big Donation Boosts Summer Perennial Distribution

  Elite Growers, the well-known Midwestern plant experts, provided a bounty of diverse perennials for the July 17 CCGA Summer Perennial Distribution. Over 2700 perennials came off their two trucks; CCGA volunteers then sorted and made groups of a wide variety of perennials to distribute…

Summer Perennial Plant Giveaway – Friday July 17th

Hello Chicago Community Gardeners, Our thanks to Elite Growers, who are contributing a truck load (or maybe two) of perennials to CCGA for our Summer Distribution! On Friday July 17, the CCGA Resources Committee will have a Summer Perennial Plant Distribution at the Sherwood Peace…

CCGA distributes 4,000 vegetable seedlings to 101 community gardeners

The CCGA Resources Committee thanks everyone who came to one of the two sites on May 9th and 16th to pick up a boxful (or basketful) of vegetable seedlings to plant in their community gardens. Thanks to generous donations from Westover Farms, Macy’s, the Winnetka…

CCGA Receives Generous Plant Donation from Macy’s Flower Show

The CCGA Resources Committee asked, and was granted permission, to visit Macy’s after hours earlier this month to pick up almost eight hundred tropical plants that had been part of the Macy’s Spring Flower Show. Our thanks go to R. Todd Pope, Project Manager and…