Articles About community gardening

• Root causes

  By YS News StaffSeptember 25, 2020

  

  Earlier this month, the Tecumseh Land Trust and Community Solutions hosted a garden tour of the bountiful and blooming gardens of the village.

• Creating wildlife habitat, villagewide

  By Audrey HackettJune 26, 2020

  

  In late summer, native sunflowers in Ellen Hoover’s garden draw goldfinches. The bright yellow birds feast on seeds, then burst out like sunflower petals flung to the sky. Down the street, monarch butterflies browse Catherine Zimmerman’s coneflowers, goldenrod and asters.

• Women’s Park thrives at 20

  By Diane ChiddisterJune 28, 2018

  

  Twenty years ago, villager and women’s rights activist Gene Trolander gathered together like-minded friends to bring to life a vision she held dear: a park to celebrate the lives of Yellow Springs women.

• Local food activists strategize, plan for a commercial kitchen

  By Diane ChiddisterAugust 18, 2016

  

  A growing interest among villagers around local food has led to an ambitious effort to make the village a regional food hub, with an initial step of creating a commercial kitchen as the first component of a community economic incubator.

• BLOG – Garden Time!

  By Suzanne SzempruchMay 13, 2013

  

  The nooks and crannies throughout the Village that often get overlooked. Today’s blog is showcasing a few pictures from last weekend at Antioch’s Farm and from the community garden at Bill Duncan Park last summer.

• Villagers Agna, Reynolds honored

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 22, 2011

  

  When villagers Mary Agna and Macy Reynolds are inducted next week into the Greene County Women’s Hall of Fame, they will be among 23 other local women to receive the honor.

• Gardens, gardeners sprouting

  By Megan BachmanApril 7, 2011

  

  What began as a modest effort to start a community garden has mushroomed to four neighborhood gardens scattered around town — with more soon to sprout.

• The chips are down

  By Diane ChiddisterSeptember 30, 2010

  

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• Gardens yield more than green

  By Brooke BryanApril 9, 2009

  

  Some say starting a garden is an act of faith, a passive act done best when the moon is right. Others, like a new local community gardening group, plan for a good crop by building beds of e-mail list serves and germinating ideas at community potlucks.

  This loosely networked bunch of area gardening enthusiasts and hopeful amateurs has scattered seeds of intention across the village and Miami Township that just might sprout up in the form of shared gardens, seed swaps and educational activities near you.