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Kilbourn Park Organic Greenhouse Plant Sale May 14th and 15th

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…

CCGA Spring Flower Distribution Saturday April 9th at 9am

The CCGA Resources Committee will hold its annual Spring Flower Distribution at 9am April 9, 2016 at the Center for Green Technology, 445 N. Sacramento. Pansies, cerinthe, delphiniums, alyssum, linaria, nemesia: all good early pollen sources for our insect friends, and beautiful colors for us!…

CCGA Spring Flower Distribution Saturday April 9th at 9am!

The CCGA Resources Committee will hold its annual Spring Flower Distribution at 9am April 9, 2016 at the Center for Green Technology, 445 N. Sacramento. Pansies, cerinthe, delphiniums, alyssum, linaria, nemesia: all good early pollen sources for our insect friends, and beautiful colors for us!…

BULBOMANIA 2015!

On October 24, 2015, the Garfield Park Conservatory graciously hosted our 2015 Bulb distribution. The CCGA Resource Committee distributed 5400 bulbs to 65 community gardens! Special thanks to Mattie Wilson of the Garfield Park Conservatory, who not only gave an excellent presentation on bulb planting…

Northside Perennial Distribution – Saturday, September 26, 2015

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…

Southside Perennial Distribution – Saturday, September 26, 2015

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…

Westside Perennial Distribution – Friday, September 25, 2015

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 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…

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…

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…