Waterloo Arts Launches Green Palette Program to Enhance Street

Photo by Anastasia Pantsios

It may be chilly and dreary now, but this is the time of year when gardeners start preparing for the spring. And North Collinwood’s Waterloo Arts is already laying down plans for a new program it’s dubbed The Green Palette. It aims to transform the entire Waterloo Arts District into a showplace of gardens through community participation.

By engaging interested people and training them, it intends to transform Waterloo’s 20 or so raised beds into “personalized growing plots,” planted and tended by teams of community members. “The objective of the project is to re-envision the planter beds as sites for community-led creativity to blossom and serve as a model for how we can collectively take action to make positive change in our neighborhoods,” it says.

The program kicks off with monthly webinars starting January 28 and continuing through August, followed by the growing season from approximately May through September. The webinars, which will cover topics such as soil health in urban environments, native perennials, growing food and herbs, and the social impacts of urban agriculture, are open to all; you don’t have to commit to the growing season.

To learn more and get updates go to waterlooarts.org/announcing-the-green-palette.

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