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5th Annual Parade of Community Gardens
August 21, 2010
10am-2pm

Congratulations to all the gardens on this year's Parade of Community Gardens!  This statewide "openhouse" of community gardens occurs once a year, inviting people to come and learn more about these incredible community spaces first-hand.

Parade Goers!

Download the PARADE BROCHURE (4p) -- your hands-on directory of gardens opening their doors during the Parade of Community Gardens

View 2010 Parade of Community Gardens Directory in an online map, that you can also use to plan your route

Download the PARADE POSTER and put up at your neighborhood cafe!

Read and download of BWTC bike routes for visiting gardens on August 21st!

Send us your photos and be entered in a prize drawing! Bike Walk Twin Cities (BWTC) is sponsoring a Community Garden Photo Contest!
Submit photos here of you, your shoes, your bike, your family and friends enjoying the day and touring the gardens. Deadline is Friday, August 27th. Winners drawn on Monday, August 30th. Prizes include a Burley Travoy, a Nice Ride MN subscription, t-shirts, reflective arm/leg bands, and a bike light set.

THANK YOU TO OUR EVENT SPONORS

Valley Natural Foods Seward Cooperative Grocery and Deli

Community Gardeners & Parade Ambassadors

Share Photos and Stories from the 2010 Parade of Community Gardens!
(http://parade.opengardenproj.org/)

Garden Parade Report
Share attendance, fun stories, and make recommendations for next time

Parade Ambassador Worksheet
can fill out for up to four gardens


Here's a quick list of all participating gardens!
(the number is for the Parade. Check the brochure for a map and look for the number on the bright orange signs near the garden to help you find them on the Parade Map & Brochure

APPLE VALLEY
Garden Party On Elm Drive (62)

BURNSVILLE
Highland Drive Community Garden (58)
IOC Community Garden (59)
Nativity Outreach Garden (60)

CHASKA
Grow. Eat. Share. Garden (3)

EAGAN
Garden To Table (63)
Advent Community Garden (64)
Ss. Martha & Mary Episcopal Church (65)

LAKEVILLE
TEFC Community Garden (61)

MANKATO
Community Gardens at Good Counsel (4)

MINNEAPOLIS
Common Ground Community Garden (5)
Lind Community Garden (6)
SACA Community Garden-Garden of Hope (7)
North End Community Garden (8)
Mulberry Junction (9)
South Hawthorne Community Garden (10)
Urban Farming at 12th & Morgan N (11)
Redeemer Community Garden (12)
Streetwerks Youth Garden (13)
Accord Native Plant Community Garden (14)
Soo Line Community Garden (16)
Pleasant Ave Community Garden (17)
Greenwood Acres Victory Garden (18)
Eat Street Community Garden (19)
St. Stephen's Whittier Community Garden (20)
Brian Coyle Community Garden (21)
5th St Community Garden (22)
Augsburg Community Garden (23)
Good JuJu Community Garden (24)

MINNEAPOLIS (continued)
Peaceful Patch Community Garden (25)
Waite House Garden (26)
E Phillips Community 17th Ave Garden (27)
12th & 13th Ave Block Club Garden (28)
Artstop Garden (29)
Powderhorn East Community Garden (30)
18th Ave Green (31)
Minnehaha Ave Community Garden (32)
Seward Montessori School Peace Garden (33)
Mustard Seed Community Garden (34)
Southside Star Community Garden (35)
3437 Garden (66 - late addition)

ROGERS
Water Tower Community Garden (1)
Triangle Park Community Garden (2)

ST LOUIS PARK
Texa Tonka Community Garden (15)

ST. PAUL
St. Anthony Park Community Gardens (36)
St. Anthony Park Prairie Garden (37)
UMN Native American Medicine Gardens (38)
Cornercopia Student Organic Farm (39)
Celeste's Dream Community Garden (40)
Snelling Ave Planters (41)
SPROUT! (42)
Hamline Church - Maxine Smith Rain Garden (43)
Midway GreenSpirit Community Garden (44)
Horton Park Native Wildflower Gardens (45)
Hamline Thomas Community Garden (46)
Eleanor Graham Community Garden (47)
Arts Us (48)
Oxford Dayton Community Farm (49)
Urban Farming Greenhouse Gardens (50)
Gateway Trail Community Garden (51)
Phalen Poetry Park (52)
Green Pride Garden (53)
Union Gospel Mission (54)
Community Design Center of MN -- Swede Hollow Garden (55)
Rhythm of Peace (56)
Skidmore Park Community Garden (57)

 

Past Parades Look at press releases, resolutions, and garden descriptions, video, and the brochure -- our best "walk-around" directory of community gardens in the Twin Cities. Plan on attending the next Parade and take yourself on a tour of community gardens and meet the people that create and maintain these spaces!

2009 Parade of Community Gardens

Parade Brochure | Parade Brochure espanol (with some english)

2008 Parade of Community Gardens

Parade Brochure (with map- 1.4MB)

Online map of gardens with descriptions

Media Advisory

2007 Parade of Community Gardens

Parade Brochure

Online Map of Gardens along with descriptions

Press Release

Online video from Minneapolis Television Network of some Minneapolis Community Gardens interviewed during the Parade (segment #96)

2006 Parade of Community Gardens

Parade Brochure (1MB, 2p)

Garden Descriptions in newsletter

Online video from Minneapolis Television Network of some Minneapolis Community Gardens interviewed during the Parade (segment #91)

Resolutions and Proclamations -- Over the years, Minneapolis and St. Paul City Councils, Hennepin County of Board of Commissioners, and the Mayor of Minneapolis have recognized the value of community gardens to our neighborhoods, honoring community gardens and the gardeners that create and maintain these community spaces.

2010

Dakota County proclaims August as Community Gardening Month

Coming soon! Resolutions from St. Paul City Council & Minneapolis City Council

2009

St. Paul City Council & Minneapolis City Council Resolutions
2008

St. Paul City Council & Minneapolis City Council Resolutions

Hennepin County Board of Commissioners Resolution
2007

St. Paul City Council &| Minneapolis City Council Resolutions

2006

St. Paul City Council & Minneapolis City Council Resolutions

Minneapolis Mayoral Proclamation

Gardening Matters - 310 E. 38th Street, #204b, Minneapolis, MN 55409
612-492-8964 - info@gardeningmatters.org