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Where We Are: Urban Patch Progress

We have had an incredible year at Urban Patch! We have big plans for our next phase of work, but we are energized by all of the great work we’ve accomplished and the excellent partners we have collaborated with so far.  Our mission is to help make the American inner city better, and our work […]

Preservation at the Crossroads

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Winter Solstice Open House Recap

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 […]

Stone Soup Kitchen Winter Canning Workshop Recap

Urban Patch and Fall Creek Gardens recently hosted our December canning workshop.  Our participants made Grape Jelly , Strawberry Jam, Apple Marmalade to USDA standards for use at home or as holiday gifts.  

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 […]

Our History: Past Forward

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 […]

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

UP Note: We believe in places, too!

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