News and tips for Marcy Holmes gardeners.
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
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
Landscape For The River
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 […]
Metro Blooms to Host $10 Raingarden Workshops in 2010
Once again in 2010, Metro Blooms will offer low-cost raingarden workshops in the Twin Cities Metro Area and in Southern Minnesota. 4400 people have attended these workshops since 2005. Learn more at metroblooms.org.
Participants will learn […]
Spring into the Garden with Blooms Day 2010
Please join Metro Blooms for Minneapolis Blooms Day:
Saturday, May 15, 2010
from 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
at Kenny Community School
5720 Emerson Avenue South, Minneapolis.
The event is free. The popular Blooms Day includes a plant sale, featuring native perennial plants with a selection of favorite raingarden plants, and will […]
2010 Spring Plant Sale:
Friday May 7 and Sat May 8, Pre-order NOW!
Marcy Open School’s annual spring Plant Sale is coming soon but you can pre-order your favorite annuals, perennials, herbs, vegetables, and hanging planters and save 10% off your order! All pre-orders must be in by April 19; get your order in by […]
Help Minneapolis’ Urban Forest
The City Trees program, a low-cost way for folks to help build the city’s tree canopy, is offering trees at a cost of $25 each.
Residents can order one tree per household, and all trees are available first-come, first-served.
Last month, the emerald ash borer was found in Minneapolis and could potentially contribute to […]
Spring Meeting MHNA Garden Group
Wednesday March 24, 2010
Wilde Roast Café (meeting room)
518 East Hennepin,
5:15 pm to 6:45
The 6th Annual Community Garden Resource Fair will take place:
Saturday March 27th, 2010
9 am – 4 pm
at Sabathani Community Center
310 East 38th St, Minneapolis
Free parking, $5 entry suggested at the door.
There will be a series of workshops (food growing in urban settings, working with new Americans, sustainable landscaping).
See gardeningmatters.org for the full […]
We just got word that MHNA won another Metro Blooms award, “Garden of Merit 2009″.
Thanks to all the Boulevard Garden adopters and Community Flower Garden volunteers who helped beautify the neighborhood last year.
Working with Gardening Matters and the Minnesota Energy Challenge, the City has helped develop (through the use of their highly successful Climate Change micro grants) a new website called “Yards to Gardens.” It helps connect people who have land available for gardening with people who want to garden.
Check it out here: y2g.org […]
New signage has been installed along the 6th Ave Greenway, from University Ave to Main St SE.
In spring, a group of gardeners will work again to revamp the native plantings — this time with a guidebook of plants (and weeds!) to assist.
New flyers about the greenway have also been printed and are […]
The greenway, which runs from University Ave SE to Main St SE, was created in 2000. It includes bike lanes, public art, native plantings and trees. For the past two summers, MHNA neighbors have been working to spruce up the 6th Avenue Greenway. It’s been weeded and a guide to weeds there has been created. […]
