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Urban Garden Days

• Saturday, September 17, 2022, 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Interested in urban gardening? Join the Urban Agriculture Working Group on September 17th for our first ever Annual Urban Gardens Day! It will be a day filled with garden tours, demonstrations, and homemade meals created from locally grown produce. This is a family friendly event, with activities for all ages! We look forward to seeing you there!

Schedule of Events:

11:00 AM First Market Farms - Taproot Collective. Rain barrel demonstration

12:00 PM 490 Farmers, featuring Saul Shuster. Cooking demonstration

1:00 PM Magnolia Street Children's Garden, featuring Liz Henderson. Putting your garden to bed for the winter

2:00 PM Lexington Avenue Community Farm, featuring Saul Shuster. Cooking demonstration

Additional Activities:

Aerial Springs Garden: - Google Lens flower species scavenger hunt - Build solar fountain - Harvest wildflower seeds - Puzzles and crafts (making bird feeders, wood burning signs) - Streamers, dancing, hula hoops and aerial lyra performances

Wide Water Gardens: - Introduction to bee keeping

First Universalist Church: - Rochester Area Interfaith Climate Action (RAICA) table on connections between gardens, climate action and climate justice

Gandhi Institute Community Garden: - Treasure Hunt and games in the Labyrinth

53 Brayer St Garden: - Garden naming ceremony - Community harvest (free to take home as much produce as you would like) - Cookout in the garden

Fee

Free

Last updated September 13, 2022