Urban Patch is proud to announce that we will be leading TWO sessions at the upcoming 2013 National Preservation Conference in Indianapolis. We will lead a field session in our own Mapleton Fall Creek community highlighting the role of historic preservation in community redevelopment and partnerships. New Partnerships Re-Boot the Inner City Older neighborhoods that have suffered long-term economic and […]
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 […]
Urban Patch has been selected as a Formstack Build Indy finalist for a $5,000 prize that we will use to help us make the American inner city better. More info can be found on the Build Indy page. If you are in Indy on May 16th, check out the Build Indy “Celebrate the City” Party! Click “Get Tickets” […]
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 […]
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 […]
Urban Patch’s Stone Soup Kitchen provides workshops to teach people in the inner city to prepare and preserve their own food. The project is a legacy to the work of the Urban Patch’s founders’ patriarch, Albert A. Moore, Agricultural Director for the Flanner House during the 1940’s. In the photo below, Mr. Moore demonstrates techniques for preserving […]
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
We stumbled upon this video of art dealer Jeffrey Deitch and artist/planner Theaster Gates and found it compelling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m34aIZG-_JM Related: Rebuild Foundation
Urban Patch will be at Big Car’s family day to share our work and talk about our Stone Soup Kitchen’s canning workshops. Celebrate the harvest with us at Family Fun Day! Free Event at Service Center offers fun for everyone Our raised bed urban garden in the parking lot at Service Center yielded cucumbers, greens, […]
