Midwest Grows Green

Free Webinar: Lesser Celandine Management in the Upper Midwest

Join MGG for an informative webinar, Lesser Celandine Management in the Upper Midwest, on Friday, December 6th at 11 a.m. CT!

Why attend? Lesser celandine is an aggressive, non-native w**d threatening Midwestern ecosystems by crowding out native species. Managing lesser celandine effectively requires persistent management efforts. Hear presenters Kristi Solberg, Alec McClennan and Nick Fuller discuss their roles in lesser celandine management efforts, review outcomes to date and answer questions from webinar attendees.

Register now at bit.ly/lessercelandine

You’re invited to attend Midwest Grows Green’s free webinar, Lesser Celandine Management in the Upper Midwest, on Friday, December 6th at 11 a.m. CT!

Lesser celandine, an aggressive invasive w**d, was recently added to Michigan’s invasive species list and is also spreading in Illinois and Wisconsin. Presenters Kristi Solberg, Alec McClennan and Nick Fuller will discuss their roles in lesser celandine management efforts, review outcomes to date and answer questions from webinar attendees.

Register and learn more at bit.ly/lessercelandine 🌼

Midwest Grows Green and Reflo are hosting a free Schoolyard Maintenance Virtual Workshop on Thursday, September 26th at 4 p.m. CT! MGG’s Ryan Anderson will review the schoolyard maintenance calendar, share case studies of well-maintained schoolyards and answer questions from webinar attendees. Register at bit.ly/SchoolyardMaintenance2024

This is Ryan Anderson doing my last post. There are too many projects that I would like to share in a post, but I saw this photo at Reflo's Green Schools Consortium of Milwaukee - GSCM annual conference last week and thought this best sums up my nine years with Midwest Grows Green. Getting my hands dirty, volunteering and being able to demonstrate that we can cost-effectively grow vegetation on schoolyards without synthetic pesticides and fertilizers is what MGG is all about. Thank you to everyone that has made this work possible. I will be speaking once more about schoolyard restorations and MGG successes on during the Schoolyard Maintentance Virtual Workshop September 26th. Please register at bit.ly/SchoolyardMaintenance2024 I hope to continue to see more management of greenspaces safe for children, pets and pollinators to live, learn and play. Thank you!

Thermometer readings from artificial turf fields across Chicago are reading above 140 degrees! I think it's time to work with Midwest Grows Green to manage natural grass fields bit.ly/MGGassistance

Extreme heat forces cancellation of athletic events at Chicago area schools At Schurz High School in the Irving Park neighborhood, an infrared thermometer read back a temperature as hot as 146 degrees on the artificial turf on the sports field.

Congrats to Bee's Knees (Team #1) for winning The 4th Annual Chicago Ultimate Tournament! Each player on the team received gear from Agile Gear and a disc from EcoBeachie. We'll be sharing images all week of this fundraiser for schoolyard restorations. If you have images, please share on the Chicago Ultimate Frisbee group page. The tournament got us to half-way of our fundraising goal of $10,000. To help us exceed our fundraising goal for schoolyard restorations, please consider a tax-deductible donation to MGG at bit.ly/MGGgive Thanks to all tourney players, sponsors and donors!

Championship game is set.

The 4th Annual Chicago Ultimate Tournament bracket is made!

Day ✌️ of the Midwest Grows Green Chicago Ultimate Tournament is set up and ready for walk ins.

And it's a beautiful day for Ultimate and even more beautifuller playing flatball for a green cause 💚

Games have started for The 4th Annual Chicago Ultimate Tournament! Thanks to Trader Joe's Hyde Park for donating bananas and apples for players in the morning. Bit.ly/MGGgive