- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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6 people are interested
Community Garden Workday - Hermitage Street
ORGANIZATION: Chicago Fun Volunteers
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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6 people are interested
The Chicago Community Garden Association will be hosting a number of Garden workdays across the city this fall. The CCGA is a group of community partners coming together to share ideas, plants and people power to transform and improve our city. The Chicago Fun Volunteers have been invited to give our love and sweat to care for the plants and garden space. This is a wonderful opportunity for our volunteers to come together to work along side local residents to beautify our city and feed our communities. Come discover and explore new neighborhoods and make new friends in areas that are outside your normal comfort zone.
Our first stop in this adventure will be the Hermitage Street Community Garden, at 5641 S. Hermitage, Chicago IL 60636 in the Englewood neighborhood. This is a wonderful big community garden that needs quite a bit of help. We would be weeding and mulching, and maybe a little mowing thrown in. Tools and gloves will be provided, but you are also welcome to bring your own favorite gardening tools/gears to use if you like. The workday will be led by 4 or 5 experienced community gardeners. Our workday time is 9 am to noon, Saturday, Sept 6th. Afterwards, volunteers will have the option to go out to eat and chat at a local restaurant near by. This will enhance our understanding of people and neighborhood we serve and support the local economy. It is also a fun and social way to bond new friendships with your fellow volunteers and share new volunteer events with each other.
What you should wear: Bring your big hat, sun screens, comfortable clothes and shoes/boots you don't mind getting dirty. Bring a couple bottles of water or other liquid to stay hydrated. If you have your own gardening gloves, or small gardening tools, bring those as well as the site may not have enough for all the volunteers.
The Hermitage Street Community Garden was started by Cordia Pugh and a group of 20 residents in 2011 that joined together because they wanted to grow food in their community, in an otherwise food dessert.
For more information about Chicago Community Gardens Association, please visit http://chicagocommunitygardens.org
To sign up and participate at this volunteer event, please RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Chicago-Fun-Volunteers/events/203958482/
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About Chicago Fun Volunteers
Location:
Online Organization, Chicago, IL 60601, US
Mission Statement
To be a host of volunteer opportunities for all community members to post and share their events with other volunteers. To creat a fun and social atmosphere for volunteers while harnessing the power of social media and social networking to help, build, and strengthen our community together.
Description
Chicago Fun Volunteers is an online not-for-profit organization using social media to bring people and other charity organizations together. We believe you meet the most amazing people and make the best of friends while helping others through volunteering. We have calendar of volunteer events for every day of the year, and over 4000 volunteers seeking and creating new service opportunities to share with each other to help build, improve and strengthen our community.
Join our free Meetup group and help our large and active community of volunteers to do good while having fun. Our Calendar of events works on your schedule. You pick the event that fits the day and time and your interest.
Our Members keep tabs on opportunities all over the city and surrounding suburbs and share them with each other. Everybody is allow to post service events on the main calendar and share their passions and get support by fellow members.
We have volunteer events supporting all causes, including nature conservation and clean up, after school programs, tutoring for kids, animal wellfare and protection, spending time with seniors in nursing homes, soup kitchens, homeless shelters, refugee advocacy, food pantries, knitting for babies in hospitals, and much more. If you do not see your cause listed, then you can share and post something you want us to support, and we will come help.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Hermitage Street Community Garden5641 S. HermitageChicago, IL 60636
DATE POSTED
August 29, 2014
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
N/A