Waterloo Green Palette Project Holds its First Growing Webinar

Thu 1/28

January has been dreary and chilly and gray but spring is coming — it really is!

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.

The first webinar will feature speakers from the Cuyahoga Soil and Water Conservation District. The webinars are free and open to all, whether you think you want to commit to the Waterloo growing season or not. The more people learn about  areas such as soil health in urban environments, native perennials, growing vegetables and herbs, and the social impacts of urban agriculture, the better.

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

 

 

 

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