‘Environment’ Archives
What’s new with the East Phillips Indoor Urban Farm Project this month?
By EAST PHILLIPS NEIGHBORHOOD INSTITUTE East Phillips Neighborhood Institute is building toward a healthier future and overdue environmental justice by converting the empty Roof Depot warehouse (located on 27th St and Longfellow Ave) into a community hub that brings fresh food and good jobs to East Phillips. Learn more and get involved! Join EPNI’s Outdoor Farm Team for “Seed Saturdays” in the afternoon on July 5th and July 19 to help in the gardens and learn about our outreach effortsFind details about Seed Saturdays, community meetings and other July events on our website (epnifarm.org/calendar) Come build a brighter future with us! Find updates, ways to get involved and how to follow along online at linktr.ee/epnifarm
What’s New With the East Phillips Indoor Urban Farm Project?
By EAST PHILLIPS NEIGHBORHOOD INSTITUTE We’re bringing healing, fresh food, and good jobs to East Phillips by converting the Roof Depot warehouse into an indoor urban farm and community hub. This project is stewarded by East Phillips Neighborhood Institute (EPNI), come join us! Here are some updates: EPNI launched a newsletter! Sign up at linktr.ee/epnifarmGet your hands dirty with EPNI’s Farm Team on June 7th and June 21st for this month’s Seed Saturdays! Starting at 11 am at 2428 17th Ave S, Minneapolis.This spring, EPNI raised nearly $600,000 to support future outdoor farm programming and water stewardship at the Roof Depot site. Join EPNI’s Farm Team on June 25th at 5:30 pm for a Community Workshop about growing, cooking, and celebrating summer greens. Learn more about this and other June events on our website: epnifarm.org/calendarCome build a brighter future with us! Find ways to get involved and follow along online at linktr.ee/epnifarm.
Grow With Us Invitation – MPLS Edible Boulevards
By MICHELLE SHAW If you live in one of these Neighborhoods: Cedar-Riverside, Ventura Village (Phillips), Phillips West, Midtown Phillips, East Phillips, Seward, Cooper, Hiawatha, Howe, Longfellow, or Powderhorn Park, you are invited to apply to be a Minneapolis Edible Boulevard Participant. Mpls. Edible Boulevards (a small NGO-Non-Profit) helps neighbors grow safe, healthy food right where they live – at home, outside a school, a business, or a place of worship. Mpls. Edible Boulevards focuses on partnering with Residents of Green Zone Neighborhoods, the first six Neighborhoods above are the Southside Green Zone; and then, any adjacent Neighborhood Residents that are interested. A Green Zone is an area identified as having the worst environmental injustices and health disparities in Minneapolis. There are two: the Southside and Northside Green Zones. Minneapolis Edible Boulevards offers Participants:Free soil testing,Garden instructionGarden resources for [...]
