Garden

From vacant lot to urban oasis: The story of Merriam Station Community Garden

By Grace Grinager, TC Daily Planet

Merriam Park garden, facing Prior. (Photos by Grace Grinager) 

Just five weeks after the Merriam Station Community Garden broke ground at its site on Prior Avenue and Gilbert Avenue, 33 active gardeners' plots are bursting with summer growth. 

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NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | 18th annual South Minneapolis Housing Fair is Saturday at South High School

By Cynthia Frost, Neighborhood Notes

Is spring fever prompting you to start on that home remodeling or landscaping project?  Stop by the South High on Saturday to get new ideas and find the pros who can help you get that project

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Frogtown Farm: One giant step closer to breaking ground

By Mary Turck, TC Daily Planet

Frogtown Farm plan from Frogtown Gardens website. 

Frogtown Farm came one giant step closer to reality with the March 5 announcement that the Wilder Foundation will sell the site at 919 Lafond Avenue in St. Paul to the Trust for Public Land at a bargain-basement price of $2.2 million. The approximately 12-acre site was valued by Wilder at $4.5-4.4 million, but the press release said that, "The sale price is significantly reduced from the appraised value as Wilder’s contribution to the community, and to ensure the property will be used in a way consistent with the community’s vision to be of benefit to the community."

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Community Garden Day at the Partnership Garden

08/06/2011 - 10:00am - 2:00pm

Growing Community is a collaboration of citizens and students who are growing the Partnership Garden, a sustainable organic mandala garden at the School of Environmental Studies, while learning, sh

Summit Avenue Garden Stroll & Tea

06/26/2011 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm

  The Summit Avenue Garden Stroll is back and better than ever.

Seeds, green beans and farmers markets mark spring in Minneapolis, St. Paul

By Cynthia Frost, TC Daily Planet

Just when you think spring will never come, gardening groups and farmers markets start up, and perhaps give us hope to think that we may have finally seen the last snow flakes for the season.&nbs

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NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | Watch Dirt!, Make Seed Balls with Corcoran GROWS

By Cynthia Frost, Neighborhood Notes

Spring has Sprung!

What:  Watch DIRT! The Movie with an opportunity to make SEED BALLS.

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