Learn about the Local Food Resource Hubs (Feb. 25, Feb. 27)
Do you want to grow your own fresh produce?
Come and learn about the Local Food Resource Hubs, a new community project in the Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis neighborhoods that gives people the tools they need to grow their own healthy food. Members of the Hub are part of a network of gardeners and have access to discounted seeds, seedlings, classes, and tools. The Hub brings community members together to grow, eat, and preserve food, as well as opportunities to share, swap, and socialize. Membership is offered on a sliding scale and scholarships are also available. You can sign up on the spot, or simply learn and register later.
Please join us for one of two meet-and-greets for snacks, a winter sowing demonstration, information about compost and fruit trees, and to learn more about the NE/SE Hub!
Saturday, February 25, 2012
10:00 am-12:00 pm.
University Lutheran Church of Hope in Dinkytown- 601 13th Ave SE in the “Lounge.”,
or
Monday, February 27, 2012
5:00-7:00 pm.
Little Kitchen Food Shelf at the NE Community Lutheran Church – 1500 6th St. NE
For more information, contact Lina or Mallory at 612-821-2358 or info@gardeningmatters.org.
Homegrown Minneapolis community meeting (Dec. 12)
Homegrown Minneapolis community meeting
Monday, Dec. 12, 2011
5 to 7:30 p.m.
University Research and Outreach Center (UROC)
2001 Plymouth Ave. N.
A community meeting is scheduled for Dec. 12 to report on the first two phases of Homegrown Minneapolis, announce the new Food Council members and check in on the priorities community members have around development of a more healthy, sustainable local food system.
Homegrown Minneapolis is a citywide initiative expanding the community’s ability to grow, process, distribute, eat and compost more healthy, sustainable, locally grown foods. For more information on Homegrown Minneapolis, visit:
Seeking volunteers for community garden steering committee
Are you interested in a community vegetable garden?
Your local gardener would like some people to sit on a steering committee to develop a Marcy-Holmes community vegetable garden.
If you’re interested in helping please call Copper 612.518.619 or emailcopper.harding@gmail.com.
Alternatively if you are a landowner with land to share for such an endeavor please also call or email.
If you just want to be on the list to be notified of plot availability please also call or email but let me know that is the list you want to be on, not to volunteer in the starting of the garden.
Thank you.
– Copper
Thank You to community garden volunteers
We would like to thank all of our garden volunteers who tended the Community garden on 8th St SE; the numerous bump-out gardens on 5th St SE; and the Native Planted boulevards on 6th Ave SE.
Awesome job!
6th Avenue Garden work day (Aug.24) and blog
Next 6th Avenue garden work day is Wednesday August 24, 2011 from 4 – 6 pm.
Location: 6th Avenue at 2nd Street SE
Check out our resident blogger’s post on the 6th Ave Greenway- very nice:
Volunteers needed for MHNA Community Flower Garden
We still have a few weeks open for volunteers to take care of the MHNA Community Flower Garden at 8th St SE & 10th Ave SE.
These weeks are open:
Aug 6 – 12, 2011; Aug 20-26; Aug 27-Sept 2; Sept 3-9; Sept 9-16; Sept 17 – 23.
Sixth Ave Native Plantings (June 16)
Another Sixth Ave Native Plantings work session is scheduled for
Thursday June 16, 2011 from 4:30 – 6 pm.
We will reschedule if it is raining … but if the weather cooperates, join your neighbors in weeding, planting and generally sprucing up this area. Bring your own tools and a wheelbarrow or wagon if you have one.
The native plants help clean our Mississippi River so this is important. We need your help.
Northeast Minneapolis Farmers Market
The Northeast Farmers Market directly connects local farmers and artisans with consumers. Vendors only sell items that they themselves have grown, prepared, or crafted.
The Farmers Market is open every Saturday, rain or shine, from 9 am to 1 pm, June through the third weekend in October.
The summer market is located in the parking lot of St. Boniface Church at the corner of 7th and University Ave NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413
Find out more at: www.nemplsfarmersmarket.com
Nominate your favorite garden
Do you know of a beautiful garden in our neighborhood? Or a beautiful raingarden?
Nominate your favorite garden today for a 2011 Minneapolis Garden Award.
It’s easy to nominate! Just visit our website at:
metroblooms.org/nominate.php
If you are the great gardener, go ahead and nominate yourself!
Metro Blooms’ Minneapolis Garden Awards program recognizes gardeners whose publicly visible garden beautifies our city, or whose raingarden helps to heal and protect our environment.
The deadline to submit a garden nomination is July 8. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to email becky@metroblooms.org, or call us at (651) 699-2426.
MHNA Schedule for summer gardeners
MHNA Schedule for summer gardeners:
Annual Plant
Swap and Potluck will be Mon June 6 at 6 pm, Arvonne & Don Fraser’s
home 821 7th St SE. Bring a dish to share and any extra gardening
supplies/ plants/ seeds. Join us for a fun social time and we will try to
answer your gardening questions. Utensils and beverages provided. All are
welcome.
Our first Work
day for 6th Ave Native Plantings will be Sat May 22 at 10 am.
Bring tools. Rain date is the next day, same time. Meet at 6th Ave
SE & 2nd St SE.
We are now taking “reservations†for people to weed, water
and deadhead at the Community Flower
Garden 8th St SE & 10th Ave SE. Dates open :
July 16 – rest of the summer .Sign up for a week – call the office – and take
home a bouquet with our thanks.
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MHNA’s Garden Committee will meet at Wilde Roast Café
518 East Hennepin
on Wed April 20, 2011
from 5 – 6:30 pm.
Experienced and newbie neighborhood gardeners are invited to help us plan summer events (annual potluck and plant swap, field trips to some great nurseries/save on gas ride together) and community gardening (adopters needed) this season. Pick up a drink and or snack at the counter and join us in their nice meeting room across the way.
 Marcy School Plant Sale forms are now available. Place pre-orders by April 11 and get a 10% discount. Deadline for orders is April 18th. Pick up plants at the school on Fri May 6th, noon – 6 pm. More info on Marcy School website: marcy.mpls.k12.mn.us
Local Food Resource Hubs
The City, as part of the larger Homegrown Minneapolis effort and through a contract with Gardening Matters has formed three new Local Food Resource Hubs, one on the Northside and two on the Southside of Minneapolis.
The Hubs are intended to help residents to grow their own fresh produce, to ensure greater food security and healthy food access. In this first year, Local Food Resource Hubs will have 5 main focus areas:
1) serve as local points of distribution for physical resources;
2) provide physical space for education classes;
3) focus on building leadership capacity at the community level and,
4) develop a community network of gardeners and urban farmers that are able to support one another.
Spring class and membership information is will be available soon. See http://www.gardeningmatters.org/hubs for more information.
Rain Barrel and Compost Bin SALE!
Order now to pick up at the Rock Tenn Paper Mill-St. Paul on April 30th & May 1st!
9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. each day.
Accepting orders until sold out.Â
Hurry, while supplies last!
2 styles of Rain Barrel available, each $69Â
 Compost Bin Available $ 55
Plant Sale forms available
Marcy School Plant Sale forms are now available.
Place orders by April 11, 2011 and get a 10% discount.
Deadline for orders is April 18, 2011.
Pick up plants at the school on Friday May 6th, 2011
Noon – 6 pm.
More info on Marcy School website: marcy.mpls.k12.mn.us
Garden Committee meeting (April 20)
MHNA’s Garden Committee will meet at Wilde Roast Café
518 East Hennepin
Wednesday April 20, 2011
from 5 – 6:30 pm
Experienced and newbie neighborhood gardeners are invited to help us plan summer events (annual potluck and plant swap, field trips to some great nurseries/save on gas ride together) and community gardening ( adopters needed) this season. Pick up a drink and or snack at the counter and join us in their nice meeting room across the way.
Community Garden Resource Fair (April 2)
7th Annual Community Garden Resource Fair
Saturday April 2nd, 2011
9 am – 4 pm
Sabathani Community Center, 310 East 38th St, Minneapolis.
$5 – 10 donation suggested at the door
Pre-register at www.gardenmatters.org
Marcy Plant Sale planning underway
GOT SPRING FEVER?
The Marcy Plant Sale committee continues to plan for the much anticipated spring fundraiser — the Marcy Plant Sale.
Proceeds from this annual Mother’s Day weekend event are used to support children’s classroom needs, among other worthy causes, at Marcy Open School.
So as you are dreaming of days warm enough and long enough to thaw that frost and ice in your flowerbeds, start making a list of ANNUALS, PERENNIALS, HERBS, and VEGETABLES you will want to order from your Marcy student!
New this year: Perennial Natives from Glacial Ridge Growers!
Preorders are encouraged. Order forms will be available in late March.
Also mark your calendars for the sale days:
Friday, May 6, 2011
Noon-6:00
AND Saturday, May 7, 2011
9:00 – 2:00
MHNA’s garden group will have a booth at the sale — volunteers needed.
Community Gardeners Needed
The City has 13 vacant lots available for qualifying groups to lease for community gardens. These City-owned lots were selected because they are not appropriate for development. This means that they will remain available for years of gardening even as the economy changes and redevelopment picks up. The Community Garden Pilot Program began in 2010 with 18 lots. Last year five of the lots were leased to community groups. Experienced community garden groups may be eligible for three- to five-year leases, while groups gardening for the first time will start with one-year leases. A qualifying group will be a not-for-profit or a group with a not-for-profit sponsor. The garden will need to have liability insurance.
Applicants should be ready to discuss the layout of the community garden, how it will be managed and how it will engage and benefit the community.
For more information on the Homegrown Minneapolis Community Gardens Pilot Program, visit
ci.minneapolis.mn.us/dhfs/homegrown-home.asp or call (612) 673-2597
River-Friendly Landscaping Tips and Resources
As rain barrels, composting, native plants, raingardens and other eco-friendly landscaping practices have grown in popularity, so have the number of websites offering information on them. In fact, there are now so many online resources it can be difficult to wade through them all to find what you need, when you need it.
This is where the new Friends of the Mississippi River “Landscape for the river†webpage comes in:
This resource offers selective listings of the most-requested local and practical resources, in as brief a fashion as possible.
MHNA wins Metro Blooms award
MHNA won a Metro Blooms award for our community gardens. Thanks everyone!
The annual Blooms Day award ceremony and gardening event will be held this spring on May 14th at the Kenny Community School, 5720 Emerson Ave So. We’ll send out details as we get them.
Also be watching for our spring MHNA gardening meeting when we’ll be planning gardens for summer.
Metro Blooms Minneapolis Garden Awards
Metro Blooms Minneapolis Garden Awards program recognizes gardeners whose publicly visible garden beautifies our city, or whose raingarden helps to heal and protect our environment.
The deadline to submit a garden nomination is July 8, 2010.
Questions, please don’t hesitate to call us at (651) 699-2426. Becky Rice Metro Blooms
Win a raingarden installation
This 5000th Attendee at a Metro Blooms workshop will receive a complete raingarden installation from Ecoscapes Sustainable Landscaping valued at $1000. This includes design, excavation, compost, mulch, and plants. Space is STILL AVAILABLE to attend a workshop and WIN. Metro Blooms expects to reach the 5000 mark at one of two workshops in late June. Space is limited. Register at metroblooms.org or call 651-699-2426
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
6:30 – 8:30 pm Linden Hills Rec Center 3100 W 43rd Street, Minneapolis
Thursday, June 24 6:30 – 8:30 pm Brooklyn Park City Hall 5200 85th Avenue N
Do you know of a beautiful garden? Or a beautiful raingarden?
Nominate your favorite garden today for a 2010 Minneapolis Garden Award.
It’s easy to nominate! Just visit our website at metroblooms.org/nominate.php. Or send a letter briefly describing the garden. Include the name of the gardener (if you know it), address, telephone number, and email address. Send us a photo. If you are the great gardener, go ahead and nominate yourself!
Thank You!
We had a great turnout on May 22nd to weed, water, plant and mulch the 6th have Greenway…until the monsoon hit!
Many thanks to the hearty souls that forged ahead- new faces from Flour Sack Flats, U of MN student/project designer Ekow Addo, MHNA members including our very dedicated garden committee, U of MN student liaisons, Cedar Riverside Master Gardener Doris Wickstrom , and a great crew of volunteers from Gardy’s Plantscaping (612-866-2966) of So Mpls.
Also couldn’t have done it without water provided by nearby neighbors WD Forbes and Metalmatic. Plant materials were purchased with a generous grant from the Home Depot Foundation’s Building Healthy Communities grant program, which supports the work that local nonprofit organizations, public schools and other community organizations are doing to improve the physical health of their neighborhoods.
We are establishing a Sixth Ave Stewards group to maintain the area – contact the office if you want to join. Watch for more 6th Ave Greenway events this summer.
annual Plant Swap and Pot Luck (June 7)
Neighborhood gardeners and wanna-be gardeners are invited to the annual Plant Swap and Pot Luck
Monday June 7, 2010 — 6 pm
Arvonne Fraser’s home
821 7th St SE.
Bring a dish to share and any extra plants or seeds to trade or give away. Beverages and utensils provided.
Sixth Avenue Greenway Native Planting Day (May 22)
On Saturday May 22, 2010 at 10 am, residents of Minneapolis’ Marcy-Holmes neighborhood will be planting native vegetation along the boulevards of the Sixth Avenue Greenway. The Greenway, which runs from University Ave SE to Main St SE, connects this bustling university neighborhood to the Mississippi River and the Stone Arch Bridge.
The boulevards are planted with native wildflowers and grasses with long roots that help prevent runoff into the nearby river. They also help anchor soil and provide wildlife habitat — butterflies thrive here! Plants will be provided through a generous grant from the Home Depot Foundation. The Home Depot Foundation’s Building Healthy Communities grant program supports the work that local nonprofit organizations, public schools and other community organizations are doing to improve the physical health of their neighborhoods.
A group of neighborhood volunteers, with assistance from the National Park Service, Mississippi Watershed Management Organization and the city’s Neighborhood Revitalization Program, has been tending these gardens since 2001.
For more information, or to volunteer on May 22nd, contact the Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association at 612-623-7633 or office@marcy-holmes.org.
VOLUNTEERS REALLY NEEDED!!!
Thank You to volunteer gardeners
Thanks to all the gardeners who helped prepare the 8th Street Community Garden for summer blooming:
Melanie Burns, Cindy Johnson, Ardes Johnson, Mary Kay O’Hearn, Steve and Merrick Smela, Paul Buchanan, David Rittenhouse, Ekow Addo.
Volunteers are still needed to care for the garden this summer- especially from mid-June to mid –July. Contact the office if you can take a week.
Sixth Avenue Greenway Native Planting Event (May 22)
Sixth Avenue Greenway Native Planting Event
On Saturday May 22, 2010 at 10 am, residents of Minneapolis’ Marcy-Holmes neighborhood will be planting native vegetation along the boulevards of the Sixth Avenue Greenway.
The Greenway, which runs from University Ave SE to Main St SE, connects this bustling university neighborhood to the Mississippi River and the Stone Arch Bridge.
The boulevards are planted with native wildflowers and grasses with long roots that help prevent runoff into the nearby river. They also help anchor soil and provide wildlife habitat – butterflies thrive here!
Plants will be provided through a generous grant from the Home Depot Foundation. The Home Depot Foundation’s Building Healthy Communities grant program supports the work that local nonprofit organizations, public schools and other community organizations are doing to improve the physical health of their neighborhoods.
A group of neighborhood volunteers, with assistance from the National Park Service, Mississippi Watershed Management Organization and the city’s Neighborhood Revitalization Program, has been tending these gardens since 2001.
For more information, or to volunteer on May 22nd, contact the Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association at 612-623-7633 or office@marcy-holmes.org.
Post-Spring Jam cleanup (April 25)
The student liaisons are holding a post-Spring Jam cleanup on April 25th at 1 pm.
Meet at Marcy Park, 8th St SE & 11th Ave SE, supplies and refreshments provided.
MHNA Garden Group events
MHNA Garden Group chose some dates for work and fun. Please join us:
Monday April 26, 2010 at 4:30 pm, Cleaning out the Community Garden at 8th St SE & 10th Ave SE. Bring tools.
Saturday May 22, 2010 at 10 am, Clean Out & Planting at the 6th Ave Greenway, between University & Main St SE. Bring tools (including wheel barrows).
Monday June 7, 2010 Annual Plant Swap and Potluck at Arvonne Fraser’s, 821 7th St SE at 6 pm. Bring any extra plants to trade or just come and “shop†the donated plants – they’re free. Meet other neighborhood gardeners, sample some good food and beverages.
River-Friendly Landscaping Tips and Resources
As rain barrels, composting, native plants, raingardens and other eco-friendly landscaping practices have grown in popularity, so have the number of websites offering information on them. In fact, there are now so many online resources it can be difficult to wade through them all to find what you need, when you need it. This is where the new Friends of the Mississippi River “Landscape for the River†webpage comes in. This new resource offers selective listings of the most-requested local and practical resources, in as brief a fashion as possible.