Louisville Grows
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Creating a just and sustainable Community through urban agriculture, urban forestry and environmental education! Louisville Grows’ mission is to grow a just and sustainable community through urban agriculture, urban forestry, and environmental education.
Our programs include: ten community gardens, four public orchards, the Hope Farm Refugee Training Farm and CSA, the Love Louisville Trees urban reforestation initiative, Healthy House wellness education and arts programming, Citizen Forester and Citizen Gardener volunteer training programs, the Urban Growers Series hands-on gardening education program, and Seeds and Starts plant sales.
In 2009, Louisville Grows was founded to assist community groups and individuals on their journey towards sustainability. Between 2009-2011, Louisville Grows assisted with the creation of 13 community gardens across Metro Louisville with a focus on food-insecure neighborhoods in West Louisville. In fall 2011, Louisville Grows was officially designated as a 501(c)(3) organization and began working with Metro Council District 5 to develop a vision for a 5-acre mixed-use agricultural site. Located at 536 North 44th Street, this site later transformed into the People’s Garden, which today houses 6,000 square feet of greenhouse space, a 25-member community garden, a fruit orchard, educational programs, and community gathering space. Louisville Grows later worked with community members to start the Shippingport Memorial Garden in Portland, the Community Green School in Parkland, and the Hope Community Garden in Beechmont. After releasing the Louisville Grows Community Garden Toolkit and Garden Grant in 2017, Louisville Grows continued to grow a greener community by sponsoring seven additional gardens across the city.
In summer 2015, Louisville Grows partnered with Gate of Hope Ministries to create the Hope Community Farm, a 45-member community garden, farm, and CSA. The urban farm is located at 1400 Bicknell Ave and encompasses 5 acres, and participants are refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda. The CSA offers 40 shares available to community members with plans to expand in the coming growing seasons.
Louisville Grows focuses on rebuilding the urban tree canopy through our neighborhood-based reforestation program, Love Louisville Trees. To date we have planted over 1,800 trees and provide routine inspections to ensure each tree’s success in the three years after planting. We also manage four edible food forests (orchards) that provide access to free seasonal and local fruit for neighborhood residents.
In spring 2017, Louisville Grows opened a new office and community space, the Healthy House. Located at 1641 Portland Avenue, the Healthy House is an engaging, energy efficient, sustainable community space that connects local residents to health, wellness, and green education. The Healthy House offers conference, activity, event, and classroom areas, as well as a commercial kitchen for cooking classes.
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facebook.comThe Shelby Park Community Garden has staked and built all new raised beds with their donated wood through LG's Community Garden Grant. Happy to help urban growers thrive!
WoW! We are just $1,144 away from reaching our goal! For #MembershipMonday use this opportunity for your gift to be doubled by Artsmatch (tinyurl.com/lgfilmseries)! Also, if you give $25 as one time donation you become a Louisville Grows membership for one year! Times running out on this one time opportunity, give today and support the arts in our serving communities!
Our Americorps VISTAs are the backbone of Louisville Grow's programming and outreach. Without our service year team, we wouldn't have half the capacity to do our great works in the community. Consider joining our staff as the Marketing Coordinator VISTA and impact the community by being a bridge of communication and voice of our mission. Consider applying today!
We thank the hundreds of people who came out and supported Louisville Grows' mission and our affiliated community gardens at our Seeds and Starts Sale!
After a bustling weekend at our Seeds and Starts Sale, we want to thank our supports at LEO Weekly for featuring us in their guide to community gardens throughout Louisville! A community garden transforms a neighborhood by providing fresh and local produce for plot holders, nourishing surrounding residents with edible fruit trees and bushes planted around the site, introducing children to nature in a safe and accessible way, and offers green oases in concrete spaces. We at Louisville Grows are proud to work in solidarity with such resilient neighborhoods who are making change happen, and encourage every neighborhood to take sustainability into their own hands!
Thank you to LEO Weekly for making tonight's Louisville Grows' Film Series a Staff Pick! Be sure to come out tonight and watch this empowering documentary of women who "Served Like Girl"
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See you Saturday at Seeds and Starts and How To!
It's official, Kentucky Yoga Initiative will host weekly yoga sessions in their new West End home: the Healthy House! We are happy to help continue bringing healthy living to our communities, we hope you catch a class this June!
Happy Monday everyone! We are in the final stretch of our Louisville Grows' Film Series ArtsMatch campaign, and with that we want to give all futures donors another reason to support. All donations from now until May 11 will include a one month LG membership! A membership entitles you to 25% off all Louisville Grows events INCLUDING OUR SEEDS AND STARTS SALE, and a brand new mug to show everyone you donated to sustainable cause! Donations will still be matched $1:$1, that means a $10 donations equals $20, a $50 equals $100 and a $100 equals $200 for the Louisville Grows' Film Series (are also covered)! With every donation, you bring the art of film to a too often forgotten part of our city. There are no movie theaters west of 9th street, with this program we open our doors and provide a free screening to Louisvillians in over 30 zip codes to be given the opportunity of an empowering film and intriguing post screen discussion! Donate now and watch it double, and attend our Louisville Grows' Film Series May screening: Serve Like a Girl on May 10! CLICK HERE TO DONATE https://louisville-grows-film-series.everydayhero.com/us/louisville-grows-film-series
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