Thanks so much to all those who volunteered at 4th Street Farms, Godman Guild, in Weinland Park, and at various sites all over the neighborhood! Here are just a few of the pictures from the community built at Roots & Roots: At 4th Street Farms, volunteers started with a tour of the chicken coop and an picture at the mural. There were a variety of … Continue reading Roots and Roofs 2013
Don’t miss this FREE class on “Food Safety”! Increase your knowledge about gardening & anything connected to food production. OSU Extension and Local Matters have some great workshops planned for the future. Topics include Bees, Chickens, Urban Food Production: The Future of Food, Chemical Free Pest Management and much more!!! Continue reading Workshop for Urban Farmers
Thanks to all the neighbors and volunteers who contributed to Roots & Roofs! Thanks also to Godman Guild Association, Local Matters, Habitat for Humanity, OSU Extension, Weinland Park Collaborative, The Columbus Foundation, Wagenbrenner Development, 4th Street Farms, and Continuum Church! Special shout out to the great volunteers from Centennial High School who worked at 4th Street Farms installing buried irrigation lines. Continue reading Roots and Roofs 2012 Pics
For many years there have been spring and fall “clean up” or “service” days in Weinland Park. Join your many neighbors and other community volunteers for the second annual “Roots and Roofs” event on Saturday, May 19th from 9:30a.m. to 2:30p.m featuring both Gardens and Housing. The event combines service projects to plant flowers, prepare community gardens and pick up litter with open houses for … Continue reading Roots and Roofs 2012
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
Inspired by Will Allen’s recent visit hosted by the Stiletto Gardener, Local Matters, Hounds in the Kitchen, and Franklin Park Conservatory…. as well as the recent Community Engagement conversation hosted by the Food & Wellness Committee of the WPCCA, OSU Architecture, Local Matters, & MORPC at the Godman Guild…. A team from OSU Knowlton School of Architecture hit the road to check out Iron Street … Continue reading Iron Street
Last Tuesday the Weinland Park Community Civic Association‘s Food & Wellness Committee hosted a Community Engagement Conversation in collaboration with Local Matters, Knowlton School of Architecture, CEGI, and MORPC. This event took a great deal of planning and genuinely sought resident input about food, possible food related jobs, and plans for the 3M site on 4th Street & 5th Avenue. The Community Engagement Meeting pulled in … Continue reading Community Engagement
Last Friday we took a team of agricultural, environmental, and architectural researchers on a tour of several Weinland Park gardens and the bird sanctuary. One of the experts was Joe Kovach from OARDC–Wooster, who we had earlier driven up to go visit and learn from in collaboration with our partners at Knowlton School of Architecture. He focuses on urban agricultural research, using high tunnels to … Continue reading From the Soil Up
…One bite at a time. That’s been the saying of the week. We’ve been making leaps and bounds at progress in the garden, but it’s still one baby step at a time. And , like most people, we are impatient to see things in place producing. But Gardening is a lesson in process for sure. Here’s where things started last Sunday morning…. We laid … Continue reading How Do You Eat An Elephant?
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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