Urban Harvest STL

Raise the ‘FOOD’ ROOF Benefit!

urbanharveststl — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 21:03:31 +0000

Friday April 19, 2013
7-10pm
Downtown Flamingo Bowl

Put your bowling shoes on for the Raise the ‘FOOD’ ROOF Benefit! Join us on Friday April 19th at Flamingo Bowl downtown for an event not to be missed. More info in our events page.

DONATE TODAY to Raise the FOOD ROOF

urbanharveststl — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 04:43:11 +0000

Help us ‘raise the roof’ – the FOOD ROOF that is!

DONATE HERE

Our online fundraising campaign with Rally Saint Louis has lauched! With your support, we pledge to donate food grown on the FOOD ROOF in our 2013 pilot year to local families in need. Your contribution towards this unique community experience will not only help us to build the FOOF ROOF, but will also help bring food, education and a community together in downtown St. Louis for decades to come.

At the end of the day, we want to once again put St. Louis back in the national spotlight through an innovative, educational, and progressive agriculture development which benefits our community’s health while showcasing our charitable giving abilities.

We ask for your help today to make this project a reality by making a donation. We need to raise at least $25,000 to get this project off the ground, so to speak. Every penny counts and no contribution is too small.

DONATE HERE

What’s Next with the FOOD ROOF & Rally Saint Louis

urbanharveststl — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:30:42 +0000

Well, we won!!! The FOOD ROOF beat out hundreds of ideas submitted and got top votes in the first round of the online crowdsourcing platform Rally Saint Louis. So now what?

The top five voted projects now move onto the crowdfunding phase! We are busy developing our fundraising campaign and it will go live 1 February 2013! The format will be similar to Kickstarter, basically we set a funding goal and people can donate towards it. If we receive enough pledges to meet our goal then the project gets funded and built, and if we do not meet our goal then we get nothing! So, we still need your help to grow this FOOD ROOF.

CHECK BACK ON 1 FEBRUARY FOR MORE DETAILS

Click here for more details on the Rally Saint Louis process.

Shop at Whole Foods to help build the FOOD ROOF

urbanharveststl — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 20:01:30 +0000

Shop at Whole Foods Market Galleria in St Louis January-March 2013 and ten cents will be donated to Urban Harvest STL for each reusable bag you bring! We are very excited to be collaborating with Whole Foods through their One Dime at a Time Program, all proceeds will fund the development of the FOOD ROOF project, the first rooftop farm in St Louis!

Let’s Raise the Roof with Rally Saint Louis!

urbanharveststl — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 19:50:29 +0000

We did it – the FOOD ROOF was the top voted project on Rally Saint Louis in December!!!! Thanks to all the dedicated voters out there we received over 2300 votes. It was very exciting witnessing the votes increase every day, and inspiring that so many folks supported this idea.

THE NEXT STEPS:
The top five voted projects on Rally Saint Louis will move onto an online crowdfunding phase starting 1 February 2013. Each project will be assigned a budget for implementation, and will be soliciting online donations similar to Kickstarter. Projects that meet their fundraising goals are awarded the cash to build, projects that fail to meet their goal get nothing. So, we will need your help in ‘raising the FOOD ROOF’, stay tuned for more details.

Vote for the FOOD ROOF on RallySTL

urbanharveststl — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 01:47:09 +0000

We’re live, and we are competing to grow our project, the FOOD ROOF, in downtown St Louis. Help us grow the first rooftop farm in the city!

http://www.rallystl.org/Ideas/Detail/172

Please vote DAILY, we cannot express our gratitude enough!

A Successful First Year!

urbanharveststl — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 01:38:14 +0000

It is bitter sweet that our first growing season at the downtown community garden has come to a close. We have put the garden to rest until the spring.

Reflecting back, it was a great year. Over 30 urbanites grew nearly 1000 lbs. of food, of which 150 lbs. were donated to McMurphy’s Grill through a partnership with St. Patrick Center.

Image courtesy of Kim Michaud

We hosted various volunteer days and tours. Volunteers spent about 575 hours working in the garden, from installing a sun canopy to building an urban pumpkin patch, and from planting flowers to weeding.

Image Courtesy of Earthdance Farm

We hosted the first annual Haunted Harvest Festival where 90 people from the community harvested their own pumpkins from the urban pumpkin patch and enjoyed live music by the South City Serenaders.

Image courtesy of Catherine Werner

We displayed the artwork of local artist Claire Frandsen in our flower beds. The NOK (nose + beak) sculptures added an element of whimsy and delight to the garden.

Image courtesy of Kim Michaud

Not only did we grow food, but we grew a community of friends and neighbors who are contributing to their own well-being, and to the vitality of our social fabric.

With that, we would like to thank EVERY SINGLE PERSON that was involved, whether you were an urban gardener, a sponsor, a volunteer, or a community member that came out to visit – we could not have done it without you!

Image Courtesy of Catherine Werner

urbanharveststl — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:54:12 +0000

urbanharveststl — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:50:57 +0000

The UrbanHarvest STL downtown community garden has come to life this spring in its inaugural growing season! Now into summer the garden is thriving with 6′ tall sunflowers, local art and all kinds of food. The gardeners are enjoying fresh, organic greens, kale, cucumbers, basil, green beans, snap peas, potatoes and tomatoes to name a few.

Located about 1 block north of City Museum on Koken Manufacturing’s property, 25+ residents are growing food, herbs and flowers for themselves, and collectively growing several garden plots for McMurphy’s Grill, through a partnership with St. Patrick’s Center.

Local artist Claire Frandsen is displaying her NOK sculptures in the flower beds, a lovely addition to the garden! An urban pumpkin patch is well underway, stay tuned for details on how to harvest a pumpkin from our patch this fall.

If you live or work downtown and are interested in gardening please contact UrbanHarvest STL to be placed on the waiting list.

Spring is in the Air

urbanharveststl — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 01:01:52 +0000

2012 is our inaugural growing season at the downtown community garden. Over 25 downtown residents have signed up for plots and have started planting. The weather has been anything but consistent, but the seeds are sprouting, and we are very much looking forward to our first harvest.

If you are interested in leasing a garden plot, please contact us to be placed on the waiting list. And, if you are interested in volunteering is some capacity, we can always use a hand!