Gardening News

As the New Year begins, many residents in the Twin Cities are busying themselves with planning their community garden plots for the coming season. Although the number of community gardens in the Twin Cities has grown significantly in the past decade, there are still more gardeners than plots as well as continuing nutrition issues (see our blog entry of November 12). This is a great time to start organizing and planning a new community garden in the Conway/Eastview neighborhoods north of I-94. Throughout the last several months, different organizations, residents and student groups have been introduced to the proposal of a garden, often with great enthusiasm. Unfortunately, the two formal meetings concerning a garden have yielded few emerging leaders within the community to take the garden proposal from paper to the soil.

The District 1 Council has recently hired environmental sustainability intern, Michael Higgins, to continue this project through the end of March. During this time he hopes to establish a small group of committed residents within the neighborhood to help organize, register for and plan this project, as well as maintain the property and coordinate participants once the garden is successfully actualized. We encourage any community member - whether it be you or someone you know - to contact Michael to clarify what you would like to see in a community garden and what you can do to encourage its creation.

Contact Michael Higgins - higgins.michael2@gmail.com or call the District Council at 651.578.7600.