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Keep Weinland Park Beautiful 

Join us July 11 from 9AM-12PM in Keeping Weinland Park Beautiful!      We will be holding a joint community clean-up tomorrow Saturday, July 11th with our neighbors to the east, Milo-Grogan, from 9:00a.m. until Noon.  Residents from both neighborhoods will meet at Veritas Community Church, 345 East 2nd Avenue where we will distribute everything you will need for the litter clean-up (gloves, trash grabbers, … Continue reading Keep Weinland Park Beautiful 

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Jam Sessions 

It’s been raining strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, cherries & currants this spring!    So, let’s jam!  Join us this Sunday, July 12th at 1363 N. 4th Street (4 doors south of the garden) and together we’ll make several types of fruit jams.  Bring fruit & jars, if you want to make your own. All levels of experience welcome.  If you are also musical, instruments welcome to … Continue reading Jam Sessions 

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Fifi Goes Broody

Meet Fifi. She’s a pretty adventurous little Phoenix hen.  Fifi seemed to go “broody” after improvements to our chicken run prevented her frequent escape adventures. We often would find her sitting in the nest box for hours moodily guarding eggs.  So we made a separate space in the chicken run for a brood box, got fertilized Americuana eggs, & caught Fifi to set it up.    But … Continue reading Fifi Goes Broody

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5th Annual Roots & Roofs in Weinland Park

Roots & Roofs is an annual neighborhood beautification event in Weinland Park that builds on decades of focus on housing, art & gardens. 4th Street Farms has participated in this work since the beginning. This year we celebrated our 5th Annual Roots & Roofs on May 16th, 2015 with 175+ neighbors, volunteers, church members & businesses.  Together, we hosted a plant sale, assisted 16 seniors in … Continue reading 5th Annual Roots & Roofs in Weinland Park

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Fruiting 2015

Spring has really sprung! There are bees & other pollinators buzzing all around. Blossoms are fruiting. Check out the coming blueberries, apples, cherries, currants, raspberries, pears, & strawberries!                      We are eagerly looking forward to the coming fruit and are grateful to the carpenter bees, honey bees, bumble bees, & butterflies that do all the pollination. Truly takes the cycle of nature to produce our food. … Continue reading Fruiting 2015

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Roots and Roofs 2015 Invite

Save the date! The 5th Annual Roots & Roofs is Saturday, May 16, 2015 from 9:30AM-2:30PM. Roots & Roofs is an annual beautification & housing  event in Weinland Park that builds on many years of doing spring community clean-up events. 4th Street Farms has participated since 2011 and we are so excited to welcome the community again this year. Join us as we install trellis … Continue reading Roots and Roofs 2015 Invite