Grassroots Gardens

Are you a patient Niagara Street Pediatrics? Stop by the demo garden in the waiting room to take some fresh greens home and don’t forget to check out the GGWNY map to find your nearest community garden.

We enjoyed the sunshine for our second annual Deaf Access Day in the Garden. Thank you to the volunteers who came out today from Deaf Access Services, an affiliate of People Inc. as well as the community, Fargo Estates Block Club and WNY Americorps to help build new beds and haul soil at Mulberry Garden.

The start of Buffalo Sprouts garden located at Niagara Street Pediatrics. Imagine if you could take home fresh greens and knowledge about community gardening every time you visited your doctor! We can't wait to see how their young patients and families experience the grow tower.

Sprouts sprouting!

Spring is here and with it, our new member gardens! We’ll be highlighting each of them as they get off the ground this month and next. First up is a one-of-kind tower community garden located indoors at Niagara Street Pediatrics! Follow along to see what the doctors and families are growing via https://www.facebook.com/buffalosprouts/ or @buffalosprouts on Instagram.

A week from Saturday! Have you registered yet?

Calling all community gardens and partner organizations! Check out WNY Trash Mob if you need support for your Earth Day or other community cleanups this season.

The Garden for All Times is a fundraising effort to build our land trust reserves so that we can permanently protect more of Buffalo-Niagara's community gardens. Read more about our efforts and support the Garden for All Times via https://secure.givelively.org//gr/the-garden-for-all-times Thank you!

You know what time of year it is! Even a pandemic can't stop the pies. Get your tickets. Bring your own beer this year. https://www.grassrootsgardens.org/pie-raffle

Thank you to our Pie Raffle Gold Sponsor, Wegmans, for their steadfast support! Pies go live on our auction site in one week. Did you get your tickets yet? Visit www.grassrootsgardens.org to purchase before they are all sold out.

If you live at or near BMHA Perry Housing, stop by the community garden until 2pm today for harvest giveaway and sampling of garden-fresh hot pickles and pesto! A giant thank you to lead gardener Fatima, who is retiring this year from garden lead, and to Patricia who will be taking over next season.

Check out this great collaboration for kids tonight!

Home composting is a great way to reduce the amount of waste added to a landfill in addition to creating a nutrient rich fertilizer for your garden. https://www.epa.gov/recycle/composting-home Many of our gardens currently utilize a composting system where they recycle organic waste into useable compost. You can easily begin to compost at home too, check out our latest video to learn the basics!

Mmmmm. Pie. Did you get your tickets yet? Only $10! https://www.biddingforgood.com/auction/auctionhome.action

Tomorrow,the City of Buffalo, Division of Citizens Services Virtual Block Club Chat is hosting our Executive Director, Jeanette, who will be speaking on the benefits of community gardening and the work of our member-gardens and organization. Free and open to all but you must register per the flyer contact by 9pm tonight!

"We Never Stop" this might be the last project for the season but we are going out with a bang!!!! New solar security light on the new shed, full perimeter pat...hway and privacy fencing just about completed. We are proud and hope all come to enjoy our beautiful garden thank you to all that helped and donated See more

Thank you to our friends at Independent Health for their generous support of our programming through their Dress Down Days fundraiser. They are also regular volunteers with us each summer. Their support allows our community gardeners to grow fresh food to feed neighborhoods. #redshirttreatment #corporatetocommunity

Our primary values include equity, justice, stewardship and restorative practices. To us, land justice requires collective ownership, stewardship, reparations, partnership with indigenous communities, and strong advocacy to keep the control of land in the hands of the community. We acknowledge that our community gardens sit on the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee and we honor the sovereignty of the Six Nationsthe Mohawk, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Seneca andTuscar...ora. Indigenous food security remains dependent on food sovereignty. Learn more here from Civil Eats. https://civileats.com//indigenous-food-security-is-depend/ An excellent regional organization focused on rematriation of land and food sovereignty is the Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust. Their reparations map provides information on how to resource BIPOC farmers with land and funding so they can grow nourishing food and distribute it in their communities.

Right back at you Massachusetts Avenue Project!

While we are sad to be losing the beloved Shakespeare Garden at Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum as a member garden, it was time to return it to the stewardship of the museum. A huge thank you to our board members and staff today for thinning out and cleaning up the garden. A very special thank you to lead gardener Cathy for all the years she and her family gave to caring for this space. The roses we transplanted today will beautify Gazebo Park in the Fruit Belt for community gardeners to enjoy for years to come.