Taste heirloom and open-pollinated tomatoes and collect the seeds from your favorites! Choosing tomatoes from pictures in seed catalogs just isn’t the same as choosing one tomato based on taste at a tomato tasting/seed swap! Bring your best homegrown or farmers’ market heirloom or open-pollinated tomatoes…
Arturo Velasquez Institute Greenhouse Andy McGhee, Windy City Harvest aquaponics coordinator
What’s more peaceful than sun salutations in the garden? Come join us for a free yoga class at Vedgewater, taught by an experienced professional instructor, Mary Beth Johnson. The class will be geared toward gardeners and the ailments that can come with gardening (knees, wrists, low…
Join local food and gardening advocates as we highlight the many ways you can enjoy your bountiful tomato harvest all year long. The Chicago Park District, Slow Food Midwest Ark of Taste Committee, Illinois Extension Master Gardeners and the Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance will be…
Join us for our free class, What’s Happening in the Garden?, taught in a different Peterson Garden Project community garden every month. For the month of September, we’ll talk about: -adjusting the garden to cooler temperatures -fall pests and diseases and what to do about…
Arturo Velasquez Institute Greenhouse Erin Matson, Windy City Harvest apprenticeship instructor $39 This workshop will cover how to utilize Excel to plan out a season of continuous annual vegetable crop production on your small farm or community garden plot. A crop plan excel template typically…
“RAVINIA IN THE GARDEN” Join us as we celebrate a productive 4th Season. Network with friends and learn about new additions to the garden landscape. Enjoy live entertainment and delicious food. Support our first Fundraiser at Kuumba Tre-Ahm Community Garden. Date: Saturday, August 22, 2015…
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…
We are celebrating our Environmental Justice victories! Please join LVEJO on August 14, 2015 to celebrate the opening of La Villita Park, the 3rd anniversary of Chicago Coal Power Plants closure, access to the 31st street bus and many more! We look forward to sharing…