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Wednesday March 11th 2026
NCAP Grows Gardening Potential in Phillips this Spring
By David Boehnke
Have you always wanted to have a way of getting cheaper, healthier vegetables? Or do you love to garden and need a way of doing so? While it can be hard to get access to healthy food in Phillips it is getting easier with a growing abundance of gardening opportunities, many of which are being organized by a new group called NCAP: Neighbors Connecting for Action in Phillips.
There are four opportunities particularly worth highlighting:
Get a garden in a box-Sign up to participate in this initiative where you, with other neighbors will get a raised bed garden, plants, and mutual support for growing food where you live. RSVP to attend the Meet and Greet Event for this exciting opportunity: Shea, 612-423-1351, shea.peoples@gmail.com. The event is on Saturday April 14th, 11am at the Phillips Community Center, 2323 11th Ave. S. This project is in partnership with the Growing the Backyard CHAT of the Backyard Initiative and fits into Gardening Matters”' Cold Crop Distribution Event””meet other gardeners and get reduced price seeds and seedlings.
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Creating MAYDAY Welcome to April at the AVALON
On May 6th the 38th Annual MayDay Parade”'s Puppets, Bands, Floats, Stiltwalkers, & More will appear 5 Blocks north of Lake Street travel along Bloomington Avenue across Lake Street and 5 Blocks south of Lake Street turning toward and around Powderhorn Lake to the cheering admiration of thousands of people.
That spectacle will be the “frosting on the cake.” The MIRACLE of MayDay in Minneapolis
Right on Lake Street at 1500 East Lake Is the gathering of hundreds of people of all ages and levels of expertise during April to design and shape this remarkable Celebration of Spring and new life.
In the Heart of the Beast Theatre”'s Avalon in April transforms into a giant studio where staff artists and volunteers create the MayDay Parade and Festival.
Help build the puppets for the Mayday Parade!
Workshops are free and open to the public.
Workshop Times: April 7- May 3, 2012
Saturdays, 9-11am and 1-3 pm
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7-9 pm
How it Works
An artist will introduce you to the parade theme by showing you the giant storyboard (a visual script).
You select a section of the parade to work on, find the artist in charge of that section, and set to work!… Read the rest “Creating MAYDAY Welcome to April at the AVALON”
“Poverty NOT a barrier to success.” Banyan in East Phillips produces college-bound scholars
by Lauretta Dawolo Towns, Community Coordinator
There”'s a big reason to celebrate in East Phillips! Four high school seniors from the Banyan Community in South Minneapolis are going to college. So far, they have received a total of 16 college acceptance letters. The University of Minnesota, Yale University, Swarthmore, and Marquette University are just some of the colleges waiting to hear from these scholars. Although many Twin Cities students are preparing to enroll into college this fall, these students don”'t fit the conventional profile for success.
Abby Mohammed, Seng Ye Xiong, Nathanael McNair, and Tyler Moore are graduating seniors at DeLaSalle High School through the Banyan”'s Higher Ground scholarship program. They”'ve made a commitment to their education and used the 4-year scholarship as a stepping stone to higher education. These students come from neighborhoods where low educational outcomes are commonplace. They were not expected to graduate from high school, much less attend competitive colleges and universities. Mohammed explains it best in her college entrance essay, “Minneapolis is a city of arts and diversity.… Read the rest ““Poverty NOT a barrier to success.” Banyan in East Phillips produces college-bound scholars”
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