Tag: Chicago

Weather Resilience Workshop: Humboldt Park

Weather Resilience Workshop: Humboldt Park

The City of Chicago is hosting a series of neighborhood workshops to address the region’s resilience to incidents of extreme weather, especially rainstorms that cause floods and related damage. The purpose of the workshops is to identify techniques and infrastructure improvements that foster sustainability and…

Weather Resilience Workshop: North Lawndale

Weather Resilience Workshop: North Lawndale

The City of Chicago is hosting a series of neighborhood workshops to address the region’s resilience to incidents of extreme weather, especially rainstorms that cause floods and related damage. The purpose of the workshops is to identify techniques and infrastructure improvements that foster sustainability and…

Weather Resilience Workshop: Austin

Weather Resilience Workshop: Austin

The City of Chicago is hosting a series of neighborhood workshops to address the region’s resilience to incidents of extreme weather, especially rainstorms that cause floods and related damage. The purpose of the workshops is to identify techniques and infrastructure improvements that foster sustainability and…

CCGA: What we did in 2014, and what’s coming in 2015.

Happy New Season, Chicago community Gardeners! We want to bring you up to date on CCGA‘s 2014 activities as well as our plans for 2015. In early 2014, CCGA formed an Interim Steering Committee which has updated the website, written bylaws, and planned numerous gardener…

Corona Cares tool grants available

Corona Cares tool grants available

Corona offers a very limited number of landscape tool grants to gardens on a first-come, first-served basis. The application is very simple.

6th annual MLK Food Justice and Sustainability Weekend

6th annual MLK Food Justice and Sustainability Weekend

KAM Isaiah Israel’s Social Justice Committee presents the 6th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Food Justice and Sustainability Weekend. The focus this year is ‘Climate Change and Civil Rights.’ The weekend long education and advocacy event will include workshops on social justice, food and environmental…

Opening Reception – 625 AT 6:25 SUSTENANCE: CHICAGO AND THE FOOD CHAIN

Opening Reception – 625 AT 6:25 SUSTENANCE: CHICAGO AND THE FOOD CHAIN

In Sustenance: Chicago and the Food Chain, photographers Amanda Rivkin and Heriberto T Quiroz document the realities of food access in Chicago through the eyes of children at home, school, and in their communities. The installation will be framed with a discussion of where Chicago…

Deadline – Sow it Forward Grant

Deadline – Sow it Forward Grant

The application deadline for our 2015 grant cycle is 5pm Eastern Time, Friday January 9, 2015. Sow It Forward is the grants and partnership program of Kitchen Gardeners International. The grant is for nonprofit causes or organizations (schools, 501c3s, food banks, community gardens, colleges, libraries,…

Honor MLK through food justice

Honor MLK through food justice

KAM Isaiah Israel’s Social Justice Committee is presenting the 6th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Food Justice and Sustainability Weekend, with a focus this year on ‘Climate Change and Civil Rights.’ Learn more about this exciting, informative, and free three-day conference on our event page.

The Sow it Forward Grant deadline is coming this week

The Sow it Forward Grant deadline is coming this week

Kitchen Gardens International is a simple-to-apply-for grant for food gardens. The deadline is this Friday, January 9th at 4 pm, Central time. Learn how to apply on our event page.