Our events and workshops are free (unless otherwise noted) and open to everyone!
Join Deep Roots Project “Grow Your Own” movement. Learn how to grow your own food and join others while doing it. Register for our webinar on March 3 at 6pm that is sponsored by the Oak Park Library
Sign up for the SUPERFOOD GARDEN SUMMIT
Nutrient Rich Foods With Ease
FREE Livestream event July 22-25
16 Garden Visionaries Help You Grow
Please join Deep Roots on Friday, July 3, from 5 - 8 pm for informal live music played by friends and neighbors in Estelle Carol’s front yard food garden located at 323 S. East Ave, Oak Park.
FREE webinar on Thursday, May 28 at 6pm
Kurt Hansen will present a webinar for beginners and intermediate gardeners with a priority on first-time gardeners. He has tips for a bountiful harvest including soil, varieties, fertilizing, pruning, trellising, and harvesting. Tomatoes are "heavy feeders." Learn how to replenish the soil nutrients throughout the season.
This webinar substitutes the 4th webinar in our original First-time Food Gardener webinar series that had been announced for this date.
This event is online. You will receive a link via email to join the live webinar!
Even though the leaves are off the trees and there may be snow on the ground, gardening is still on our minds here at Deep Roots. In fact, now is the best time to be thinking about our gardens, as some things need to be planned long before the first plants poke up from the ground.
Join Deep Roots Project Sunday, February 23 for a free workshop at the Oak Park Main Library at 3pm in the first floor Community Room! We allowed extra time at the end to advise people who need help with their garden planning.
It’s time to share our lessons learned this edible gardening season (and previous seasons too). Bring your gardening questions, discoveries, successes, mistakes and experiences.
We will review the Deep Roots edible garden checklist for success.
Our goal is to make garden both fun and efficient. We are always thinking of new ways to save time and money. Many members of the Deep Roots community like to learn edible gardening by trying out new methods and tweaking old ones.
Bring your gardening stories and questions.
In memory of Eco-Champion Sally Stovall
Deep Roots Project and Green Community Connections invite the community to see and taste the beauty of this showcase edible garden between 4 and 8 p.m. Sunday, July 21, at the home of Estelle Carol, 323 S. East Ave., Oak Park. Bringing a dish and/or beverage to share is not required but is greatly appreciated.
July 21 Schedule:
• 4 to 6 p.m. showcase garden tours + potluck appetizers
• 6 to 8 p.m. potluck dinner
• 7 p.m. sing along (songs to remember Sally chosen by her children)
This garden is dedicated to Sally Stovall, local eco-champion and co-founder of Green Community Connections, who died suddenly on May 21. To learn more about Sally's wide-ranging environmental work, go here.
RSVP here on EventBrite to help us anticipate attendance.
Get a sneak peek of the garden in this video.
Volunteers needed to help setup ice cold beverages, tables, and chairs in the back yard shade garden as well as greeters, tour guides, and cleanup crew. Contact lisa@greencommunityconnections.org.
