4th Street Farms is joining with Green Columbus, and lead sponsor The Nature Conservancy for Earth Day 2012: Root Down, which includes hundreds of volunteer activities across the region during the weekend of April 14-15 and a citywide celebration on April 21 at the Columbus Commons. Sign up to volunteer with us now! For Columbus’ bicentennial year, Green Columbus is planning its best Earth Day … Continue reading Earth Day Work Site
Join us in planning for the 2012 season at 4th Street Farms! We had an amazing 2011. Let’s keep building on that momentum! We’re having a potluck on Sunday, Feb 26th at 6PM @ 1363 N. 4th Street (parking available on street). We will be making veggie spaghetti. Please bring a dish and ideas to share. All are welcome! In addition to sharing a meal … Continue reading 4th Street Fruits
Are you interested in adding some art to your gardens? Join talented local artists, Melissa Vogley Woods and Elena Harvey Collins Jan.21st/12-2pm @ Godman Guild Association. Start your projects, meet other growers/artists and share a delicious lunch! Continue reading Art and Gardens
Here’s a sneak peak at new city-approved litter education stickers that were created by a group of Weinland Park residents working in collaboration with researchers from The Ohio State University College of Public Health on a Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) project entitled On Our Soil. These stickers (after minor editing) will go on trash bins throughout Weinland Park sometime soon. Special thanks for this sticker go to … Continue reading On Our Soil
United Way of Central Ohio celebrates an important milestone with the 20th Anniversary Community Care Day, the largest single volunteering effort in central Ohio. Over the past 20 years, Community Care Day has mobilized more than 75,000 volunteers and provided an estimated half a million dollars in equivalent labor costs to United Way member agencies, other nonprofit organizations, neighborhood groups and local schools. Community Care … Continue reading Community Care Day
Several weeks ago 4th Street Farms was accepted to a workshop as a project for a digital storytelling workshop offered by the Columbus Film Council and The Free Press sponsored by Comfest, where the video first was screened at the Shelterhouse as part of the work of Archives. Thank you to Martina Santos from OSU Knowlton School of Architecture for providing video footage, Susan Halpern … Continue reading Walk With Me
Last week in lieu of our regular work day in the garden at 4th Street, we were at Comfest and in addition to members volunteering in Clean Up & Recycling, Wine, Food Fairy, Archives, and Safety, we also were at the Solar Stage sharing with a larger community our work at 4th Street. For those not familiar, ComFest (officially The Community Festival) is a large, free, non-corporate, music and … Continue reading Food Not Lawns
Hats off to the growth of 4th Street Farms: Last Sunday it rained much of the day and the garden settled in with hungry roots drinking up nourishing ground-soaking water, while we got tomato stakes in and some very necessary weeding done. Join us Sunday, July 3 for our next gardening event where we are planning to celebrate all our hard work and Independence Day … Continue reading Growing with Celebration
Continuing our work in the garden last Sunday, we finished building rows from front to back, while having fun! Then, as we got all the plants in the ground, we gave them a good deep watering with the help of neighbor kids. It’s amazing how gardening brings people of all ages outside and working together on a common goal. So many people have stopped … Continue reading Unity
Everyone at 4th Street Farms has been extremely busy! Here are some of the highlights of what we’ve been up to: We’ve spread mulch over areas that won’t be gardened to keep down weeds and provide pathways, as well as compost large quantities of chipped wood, which long term will help remediate the soil. We gathered to work and eat on Sunday afternoon, attracting quite … Continue reading Serendipity
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