by Nancy & Nora on September 10, 2010
Have you seen our Global Hope Garden recently?
We are sending a big shout out of THANKS to all our garden volunteers.
And, we have Theresa S-M. to thank for these pictures of how beautifully our garden grows thanks to all our helpers.
by Nancy & Nora on July 28, 2010
Click on the link above to see the current Volunteer Sign-up Schedule for our
Global Hope Community Garden
69th and Saratoga, Downers Grove, IL
**Garden Wish List:** a few more helping hands for:
Session 7 [Aug 22 – Sept 24]
Session 9 [Sept 19 – Oct 2]
pass the word…
If you can help out in the Community Garden during any of the open, available weeks, please let us know by clicking here to contact us. Please let us know when you would like to volunteer and include your email and phone number. We’ll get back to you with all the information you need to help out.
by Nancy & Nora on July 25, 2010
Did you know that the Community Garden has a beautiful voice? Check out the archived copies of our “Voice of the Garden” Newsletters for our 2010 Community Garden Project. You will find them in our – Newsletter – Voice of the Garden Archives – page.
A big thanks to Beth Krueger for producing them this season.
by Nancy & Nora on July 22, 2010
WANTED: SOME GOOD STRONG BACKS
To Deliver School Supplies to Chicago Public Schools
Thursday, AUG 19 10am-3pm
and/or
Friday, AUG 20 10am-3pm
Dick Flesher of Schools Count has been collecting new and slightly used school supplies from over 20 area elementary, junior high and high schools. These supplies will be distributed to the Chicago public schools most in need of assistance and serves as part of the Schools Count “Go Green” program. In an effort to do their part to ‘save the planet’, these ‘nearly new’ supplies will continue to serve students in the Chicago area rather than crowd our landfills.
Where does Global Hope come in? We are looking for 3-4 volunteers for each of the two days to deliver 2281 binders, 3396 notebooks, 5438 folders, 1556 packets of loose leaf paper, 8500 pens and pens, 3000 colored pencils, 7000 colored markers, many thousand note cards, boxes of glue, boxes of crayons, backpacks, composition books, paint sets, scissors, rulers, graphing paper and more!! How’s that for putting “goodwill in motion”! These supplies will already be packed in boxes weighing between 10-20 lbs.
If you are interested in helping with delivery, please let us know as soon as possible so we can inform Dick Flesher. Maps will be provided in order to follow supply trucks to each destination. Also, due to the nature of this project, please leave “underage” volunteers at home.
Please contact Anna at aalbrecht117@comcast.net to volunteer and/or for more info.
And know that because of you, thousands of Chicago area public school students will be equipped with the supplies necessary for better learning.
by Nancy & Nora on June 11, 2010
Join Us!!
“Meet you at the garden” is the new Global Hope buzz phrase.
Are you on a team yet? We’ve created several “2-week teams” throughout the summer and we still have openings. Pick a 2-week stint and join in the fun. Weed with a friend – meet new friends – it’s all happenin’ at: Global Hope Community Garden, Mar-Duke Farm, 67th & Saratoga in Downers Grove, IL
Get started by clicking below to see the current volunteer sign-up sheet…then…check your calendar to confirm when you can help out.
Volunteer Schedule Sign-Up Sheet – GH Community Garden
Let us know what dates you have picked to volunteer by CLICKING HERE to email us at Global Hope — we’ll add you to the volunteer list. We will send you an email with all the information you will need to join the team!
And we thank you in advance for your supporting this project in your local community!
We can’t wait to meet you in the Garden!
**Garden Wish List:** a few more helping hands for:
Session 7 [Aug 22 – Sept 24]
Session 9 [Sept 19 – Oct 2]
pass the word…
by Nancy & Nora on May 24, 2010
“Have hand trowel, will plant”!!
The “day” is almost upon us –
Global Hope Community Garden Planting Day, that is.
Grab your plants, your garden gloves, hand trowels, flat shovels/spades/hard rakes and empty gallon milk jugs (any or all of these) and head on down to “the garden” – Global Hope Community Garden, that is. We invite you to join us as we set our “garden of goodwill into motion”.
By the way, come prepared for more than just planting – our rain barrel and plant markers await your artistic touch (kids and adult kids alike) and they will proudly display your creative designs all season long (we will supply art materials).
When: Saturday, May 29th – 9am-11am (or so)
Where: Mar-Dukes Farms (67th and Saratoga) in Downers Grove. Look for our colorful garden sign
A few last minute suggestions…
Please save your empty milk jugs (they serve as perfect watering cans)
Please save any store-bought produce containers (for harvest and delivery)
Thanks to some amazing volunteers, who worked in and around the recent rains, delivering and spreading soil amendments and steering “the beast” (a rototiller to behold!) around an approximate 60×40 foot area, our garden boasts a fresh new look –rows upon rows of neatly formed mounds of freshly tilled soil – fully prepped and ready for planting. 
We can’t let another second go by without shouting “thank you” from the rooftops to these wonderful Global Hope friends:
John Pavich Nick Scelfo
Forest Chapman Greg Lee
Tyler West Ahmad Hahn
Petey Sydello Mary Hason
Teri Niedospial Marge Pavich
John Pavich, we don’t even want to think about what this job would have entailed without your rototilling expertise.
Doris Taylor and the Morton Arboretum, your donation of leaf mulch is the perfect amendment to head us toward producing a flourishing, bountiful garden.
Global Hope Planting Day a celebration of our vision to put food on the tables of those in need – and a celebration of all of you who will have helped to make that happen.
See you Saturday!
by Nancy & Nora on April 29, 2010
The Global Hope Community Garden
is open for plantin’, growin’ and pickin’
Join us: Saturday, May 29th
The sun is out and our Community Garden calls. All you “plant-lovin’, love to get your hands in the earth, anything to be outside” people – gather round. Have we got a meeting for you!
We’ve got the vision, the wish list and a carefully planned maintenance schedule with opportunities galore to choose from. You won’t want to miss this season-opener:
Volunteers . . . bring your gardening tools, bring your family and friends too!
WHEN: Saturday, 5/29 at 9:00 a.m.
WHERE: The Mar-Duke Farm garden plots are located at 67th and Saratoga (one block west of Main) Downers Grove – Look for our Global Hope “Fence Post” Sign!!
WHO: Anyone planning on helping with the garden this season. Everyone is welcome! It’s never to late to jump in!
RSVP: Click Here for questions and to let us know you’d like to sign up to garden
If you’d like, here are a few things that you can help us with…
… Harvest containers – you know those plastic containers that hold store-bought fruit and veggies – save them please – they make it much easier to distribute harvest throughout the season
… Stakes and String – to partition and surround our growing space
… Stakes and labels – the veggies have asked for nametags – what can we say…
… 4ft poles for pole beans – a dozen
… Tomato cages – 20 of these
… Plants – we will need lots of “starter” plants to be ready to go in on 5/29. Tomatoes, peppers, cukes, tomatillos, beans, yellow squash, zucchini are some favorites
…Dates to remember:
Saturday, May 29 - Planting Day Event
June 1st to October 2nd – Volunteer to play (and work!) in the garden
If you have any ideas or resources to help with this garden, please let us know.
Our desire is to create and maintain a thriving vegetable garden.
Our intention is to feed many, many families this summer.
Our hope is that you will join us in making it happen.
by Nancy & Nora on March 21, 2010
Love to garden, you say?
Want to find some way to help others?
Don’t have time to do it all?
Look no more.
GLOBAL HOPE HAS THE SOLUTION
Spring fever has taken over as Global Hope sets plans into motion for the 2010 Community Garden – our second year growing and providing produce for local food pantries! We are looking for someone who likes to get their hands dirty – maybe enjoys a little conversation with plants. You know who you are…
But there’s more. Envision this: a bountiful field abuzz with chatter as this plant-lovin’ gardener organizes and manages a rotating schedule of planting, watering and harvesting performed by many other eager volunteers. Are you the volunteer leader for this year’s Community Garden project for Global Hope?
Which brings us to point #2. We are looking for “Many Other Eager Volunteers” who will plant, water and harvest intermittently throughout the growing season (May-August). Once – or weekly… whichever works will be greatly appreciated. All our harvests will be donated.
Community Garden
* volunteers working together
* tending to our garden
* tending to our neighbors by providing healthy food for the less fortunate
Where? Mar-Duke Farms
(67th & Saratoga in Downers Grove, IL)
Click here to volunteer and/or to get all of your questions answered!
Also, look for more information on this site as the season draws closer
by Nancy & Nora on December 24, 2009
You love Whole Foods!
You love Global Hope!
Put them together and what do you have?
One spectacular “One Dime at a Time Program“, that’s what!
Here’s a super easy way you can celebrate the spirit of giving and help Global Hope to “keep the giving going”.
We will be directing all proceeds from the One-Dime-at-a-Time Program toward relief efforts in Haiti in the most efficient manner possible. (so spread the word – the more who shop at this location – the greater the difference we can make!)
Where: Whole Foods Market, 63rd St. & Rte 83, Willowbrook
When: January 1 – March 31 2010
How: Bring in your own reusable bag/bags. Ask that the dime per bag
refund that Whole Foods offers be donated to Global Hope, Inc.
Do remember to bring your own reusable bag each time you shop.
Do be sure to mention the dime donation to Global Hope at check-out.
Do be sure to pat yourself on the back for saving a bag
and helping Haitians “one dime at a time”.
Those dimes will add up quickly and allow us to
“put goodwill in motion” in a big way!
Thank you, Thank you Margie Sydello
for opening the door for us!!
