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FREE Redbud Tree Giveaway October 17th! Sign up today!

Using funds from our 5×5 Indy grant and working with the Purdue Extension, Urban Patch will be providing FREE redbud trees for Mapleton-Fall Creek residents and businesses on Saturday, October 17, 2015 at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. Please use our online contact form to REQUEST A TREE. Below is the link  to inform you of the project and to […]

Indy Star: Inspiring urban neighborhoods is a family affair

Inspiring urban neighborhoods is a family affair By Erika D. Smith “It really started with this picture of my grandfather.” Justin Moore fished around in the pocket of his suit jacket for his smartphone. He tapped the screen a few times, and found a black and white photo of a distinguished-looking, balding black man. The […]

So… what is this Urban Patch anyway?

We get a lot of questions about our name, the Urban Patch. We like to think it’s pretty cool and ‘catchy.’ But it does also have a serious meaning for our work, which is also inspired by our roots in urban community development. One of the project’s founders, Justin Moore, is an urban designer and […]

Indy Redbud Project

The Indy Redbud Project is a community identity + environment proposal. We will start by taking a vacant lot (or lots) in the Mapleton Fall Creek area and planting a grove of native redbud trees. Over time we would engage a number of partners from neighborhood associations and development corporations to individual homeowners and environmental […]

Community Garden 2.0

Urban Patch has helped to start the Saint Nicholas Miracle Garden in Harlem.  During Earth Week the group of community members received their approval to turn a vacant city-owned lot into one of the city’s newest Green Thumb sites, and had their first work day cleaning up the garden. The site is small (like everything in […]

Soil and Water Conservation Grant Awarded for our Park Garden Project

We were recently awarded a grant from the Fall Creek Watershed Partnership’s cost share program to do native plantings and permeable paving at our Park Garden site.  Thanks to goes to Leslie White and the Marion County Soil & Water Conservation District for their help!

Past Forward: Harlem Edition – new urban garden project underway

Urban Patch has been working with community members and 596 Acres to create a new community garden in Central Harlem in New York City.  The garden is currently a vacant city-owned site, but new garden member Vaughn Wallace found some research that the site was a garden over fifty years ago and was, in fact, the […]

Urban Patch honored as one of ioby’s 2012 ” Heroes In Our Backyards” for its work reimagining vacant space

Every year, ioby awards the Heroes In Our Backyards awards to those ioby project leaders that exemplify the ioby spirit of community activism. ioby Heroes In Our Backyards are hyper-local, community-based, entrepreneurial and tireless. In 2012, we awarded three groups with this award around the key tool for revitalizing urban centers: reimagining vacant space. The […]

Indy Rain Gardens Fall Planting

We had a busy weekend installing rain gardens at Fall Creek Gardens and at the Delaware Project.  Leslie White, Backyard Conservation Coordinator from the Fall Creek Watershed Partnership helped with the design and installation of the gardens. Installation at Fall Creek Gardens Installation at the Delaware Project

Indy Rain Gardens Installation in Meridian Park

Our final project for Phase 1 of the Urban Patch for 2012 is the installation of one of our Indy Rain Gardens, located at the Delaware Projectin Historic Meridian Park.  The lot is located at the bottom of a hill and takes on a lot of stormwater runoff from the roof of the house, and […]