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!
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 was honored for our work creating new urban rain gardens in the Fall Creek Watershed at the Delaware Project and Fall Creek Gardens in Mapleton – Fall Creek. Fall Creek Watershed Backyard Conservation Program Video:
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
