photos by George VanSickles On Friday, December 21, 2012, the Urban Patch and Fall Creek Gardens hosted their Winter Solstice Open House at the Urban Patch’s Delaware Project in Historic Meridian Park. The event celebrated a year of the two organizations’ collaboration in the Mapleton-Fall Creek area to help promote community gardening, nutrition, self-help, and urban revitalization. The […]
We did several energy-saving sustainability upgrades as part of our Delaware Project restoring a vacant historic home. The most important green upgrade, with biggest bang for the buck, was to better insulate the building. Many older homes, while well constructed, have no insulation in the walls. Installing costly energy-efficient new HVAC systems would do no good without […]
