St. John Community Gardens

St. John Community Gardens Community garden and pond located in the Historic Northeast Kansas City community. Hello St. John Gardeners and Friends! This is available to our members. St. "

We've got a lot of things planned for this 2012 season. We're hoping to get lots of new gardeners this year. Please start or renew your memberships soon. Use of a 4x8 garden plot for the growing season (you must build and fill your own planter, unless we have an abandoned bed that's available) = $15.00
Use of a 4x18 garden plot = $30.00
Use of a decorative used-tire planter at the site = $1.50 per

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If anyone has access to free lumber/building materials, the Garden would be interested in pre-building a number of beds, that would only need to be filled with dirt by the member. We have leaf mulch available now, from our compost bins of the last two years. Help yourselves. " Koop and others from the neighborhood, like Marianne Rouse, started discussion about building a community garden in the vacant lot about a year ago. Koop purchased the land after a long-vacant and damaged industrial building was finally demolished in 2003. With help from Northeast businesses and other organizations outside of the area – like Missouri Organic Recycling which provided loads of soil mixed 60/40 with compost and sand, perfect for rain gardens – the garden is shaping up. Last week, Lexington Plumbing hooked together the nine 55-gallon rain barrels and installed tap pipes and other equipment to divert water from the Back Door Pottery roof where it can be collected and used for the plants. Rain is free and, according to the city’s Wet Weather Solutions Program that is trying to match Kansas City’s water system to federal regulations, overflows the sewers on a regular basis. Average rainfall of one inch within a 24-hour period, for example, can produce more than 700 gallons of water that runs off a typical house’s roof. Another solution to wasting water and sending it either to expensive treatment plants via the sewer system or to rivers and streams when the system is overloaded, often mixed with sanitary waste water, is to build a rain garden. John Community Gardens now has two baby rain gardens in the middle of the lot where water tends to collect, running off the hillside and alley behind Windsor Avenue, as well as a larger collector garden near the street, which will prevent soil from washing away like it used to when the vacant lot was bare.

St John St. John Community Gardens has 7 beds still open for new or seasoned gardeners to plant your veggies. All others...
04/15/2024

St John St. John Community Gardens has 7 beds still open for new or seasoned gardeners to plant your veggies. All others taken. They are 4x8 beds with an annual garden fee of only $15 per bed. Contact Rebecca Koop to arrange a time to pick your plot and register your space for the year. Our garden is a program of Northeast Arts KC. Please visit our web site. NortheastARTSKC.org.

Scary Crow guarding the garden.
07/13/2023

Scary Crow guarding the garden.

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Friday June 23, 6:30-9 pm Northeast Arts KC invites Artists & Creatives to a ARTy bARTer pARTy. We Meet at the EGG (Economic Growth Gallery) 2659 Independence Ave. Friday, June 23, 2023 from 6:30 - 9

05/07/2023

Hey KC!! Farmer Brooke here. I encourage you to read my previous post about the hot water we are in with The City and the continued harassment we are receiving by a handful of neighbors. When your livelihood is on the line, and more important still, the incredible community & environmental work you’ve been engaged in for so many years, you have to strategize, post cute pictures of yourself 😂 and do everything you can to excite and fire up your fellow eco-vangelists. I’m not all that good at this social media thing. I don’t have a lot of experience with smart phones, and hyphy videos/reels are a little above my skill level 🤣. But I can post pretty pictures and put words together. I plan to spend some targeted time throughout my busy farm week highlighting some of the incredible community partnerships we are engaged in, and how our farm is a hub for so many eaters and growers throughout the city. I say without hesitation that Dan and I are trailblazers, and we have rocked the urban sustainability movement here in Kansas City. We’ve pioneered some positive green legislation, and created a personal life & farmstead unlike anything else you will find in any American city. Because we are farming all the time, it is difficult for me to market and highlight all the amazing things that are happening at URBAVORE each and everyday. I run a business, so unfortunately so much of my post time has to be dedicated to “sexy spinach” and “please buy my eggs”. But there’s so much more!!! Please follow along with me this week as I try to paint a comprehensive picture of our contributions to . We are the poster children of KC’s Climate Resilience Plan. Let’s make them wake up and give us our due praise and support!!! P.S. I’m actually not that comfortable bragging on myself and our contributions all that much. Ego is not a sustainable thing. So just know that Mother Nature kicks my butt all the time ands keeps my ego in check👍. If I get all bragadocious about URBAVORE this week, it is coming from a place of love and humility.💚

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3920 Saint John Avenue
Kansas City, MO
64123

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(816) 401-9048

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Calm waters at the pond at St John Gardens. Too bad you can't hear the frogs singing. Just traffic & the baby crying next door.

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Hello St. John Gardeners and Friends! We've got a lot of things planned for this 2018 season. Urban Garden tour is June 9 & 10, 2018 for starts. We are on it. We're hoping to get some new gardeners this year to add to the (seasoned) ones. Please start or renew your memberships soon. March 17, (St Patrick’s day) is the time to plant potatoes! Use of a 4x8 garden plot for the growing season = $15.00 Use of a 4x18 garden plot = $30.00 We have compost in our bins . This is available to our members. Help yourselves. We have two water towers installed in 2017 collecting water off the Pottery roof. That is 2500 gallons !

Rebecca Koop and others from the neighborhood, like Marianne Rouse, started discussion about building a community garden in the vacant lot about 2005. Koop purchased the land in 2005 after the long-vacant and damaged industrial building was finally demolished in 2003. We created St John Gardens in 2006. A small group of neighbors began with a few garden beds. Over the years the garden has developed 38 raised beds, three rain gardens, a fish pond, an orchard, a community entertainment and cookout space. Many of the 10 gardeners are artists, which is evident in the colorful creativity throughout the site.

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