Garden News and Events
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August 23rd from 10:30am -12:30pm SAGE will present a program at the Evanston Ecology Center along with an opportunity to tour Kingsley's Green Acres garden.  Details to follow later this month.

Congratulations to Orrington, Oakton and Dawes. These schools won Imagination grants from the Acorn Fund of the Evanston Community Foundation. Here are the details.

SAGE gets a write-up in the Chicago Tribune

Write an essay on why your school would like to build a new garden and you might win a $5000 seed fund grant and a year of garden supplies. Here are the rules (ends May 20)

The Kingsley School's Lauren Spain-Bondi and Sharon Smaller have a drama in the garden project called Everyone Can Garden

Thanks to everyone who made our benefit day at Whole Foods a success!

School gardens are voted one of the ten best ideas for change in America

A broadside against school gardens in the Altlantic Monthly is called Cultivating Failure. Some of us have commented about it.

Many are concerned about the quality of food in school lunches. The Healthy Schools Campaign is publicizing an effort by lawmakers in Washington called the Childrens Fruit and Vegetable Act

Oakton School is the recipient of a generous gift from St. Francis Hospital which will support the expansion of their edible school garden.  Left to right are Janis Atkinson, MD, Medical Staff President and Margo Schafer, Director of Public Relations at St. Francis joined by Alderwoman Ann Rainey and Oakton PTA president Julie Ort Fleetwood. (click photo to enlarge it)