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Applications due tomorrow for Garden Plots at the Kingfield Community Pleasant Garden | due Mar 30

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Spring Veggie Growing Basics Class | starts Apr 5

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I-35W Access Project Community Open House | Tue, Apr 5

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Call for Public Artists: 40th Street Pedestrian Bridge, Artist-Designed Railing | due Fri, Apr 8

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Hands-On Gardening Sessions at the ‘MLK Donation Garden’ | starts Apr 20

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Organics Training Workshops | Sat, Apr 9

Download an applications for the Kingfield Pleasant Community Garden here! We have 11 plots available for those Kingfielders that need a space to grow and want a chance to connect with the community. The application and the gardeners have been renamed to better showcase that this is a team of growers: Kingfield Pleasant Community Garden Club! Deadline to submit the application, Interest Survey, and payment is March 30th to participate in the lottery to receive a plot for the 2016 season…so don't delay. Documents can be found here:

2016 Application: click here

2016 Skill Inventory and Interest Survey: click here

Questions? Contact Cheryl@kingfield.org

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Five Consecutive Tuesdays, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM, beginning April 5th and ending May 3rd

MLK Park, 4055 Nicollet Avenue South, Minneapolis

Learn about growing vegetables in your own yard or at a community garden. The program is taught by Hennepin County Master Gardeners and sponsored by Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board and The Kingfield Neighborhood Association.

In order to register for this FREE class visit www.minneapolisparks.org or phone the park at 612-370-4908. You are registering for Vegetable Growing Basics. You will need to give your name, address, phone number, and email address.

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Tuesday, April 5th, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (presentation at 6:30)

Colin Powell Center, 2921 4th Avenue, 3rd floor, Minneapolis

Hennepin County, along with project partners MnDOT, Metro Transit, and the City of Minneapolis, will host a public open house for the I-35W Transit Access Project. This is one of the last public meetings before municipal consent, which is planned to be requested from the City of Minneapolis in May 2016. You can find detailed information at the project website www.35lake.com.

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The City of Minneapolis invites public artists to apply to design an artistic railing--with input from the community--for a new 40th Street Pedestrian Bridge spanning I-35W. The bridge serves pedestrians and bicyclists and links the east and west sections of the River Lake Greenway, a bicycle boulevard spanning from the Chain of Lakes to the Mississippi River.
Application deadline: Friday, April 8, 4:00 PM

Optional Artist Informational Meeting for Local Artists: Wednesday, March 30, 4:30 p.m., Sharon Sayles Belton Community Services Center, 411 East 38th Street, Minneapolis

For more information, and for all application materials, visit the City’s website here.

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Wednesdays (on the 3rd week of each month), 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM

April 20th, 2016 through September 14th, 2016

MLK Donation Garden, 4055 Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis

Regular Class Sessions will include: Hennepin County Master Gardeners will guide you through an entire vegetable growing season until harvest time, addressing all your home garden questions. Sessions will feature hands-on activities working the common communal plot at the park. At the first meeting, participants and Master Gardeners together will determine a schedule for helping in the garden at times outside the scheduled sessions. Produce grown will benefit the food shelf at the Aliveness Project, a nonprofit organization serving community members living with HIV/AIDS.

In order to register for this FREE class visit www.minneapolisparks.org or phone the park at 612-370-4908, or attend the Kick-off event on 3/9!

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Saturday, April 9th

There are two Organics Recycling Training sessions scheduled for Saturday April 9, 2016 to answer resident questions and launch our new Recycling Block Leader Program.

Organics Recycling Training - April 9, 2016

• Session 1: 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM at Dr. Reverend Luther King Junior Memorial Park
• Session 2: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM at Folwell Park

The training sessions will include brief presentations from Minneapolis Solid Waste & Recycling, the City's commercial organics compost facility (Specialized Environmental Technologies), and staff from Hennepin County's Environment and Energy Department. Attendees will also be able to sign up to be the Recycling Block Leader for their block and pick up free yard signs to promote organics. For more information visit www.minneapolismn.gov/organics.

RSVPs are encouraged, but not required, to help Solid Waste & Recycling staff determine the appropriate amount of refreshments. RSVP by emailing kellie.kish@minneapolismn.gov or by calling 612-673-3536.

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