Kingfield Neighborhood Association

PorchFest Preview Party(& Merch! & Music!)

It’s a PorchFest Party at the Kingfield Farmers Market this Sunday! Stop at the KFNA Community Table to get a link to download a free Spotify PorchFest Playlist, have a glance at the map showing locations and bands, and purchase a souvenir beer coolie to support the event and keep those beer cans covered as you stroll the streets of Kingfield on June 20th!

Even the band at the Market on Sunday is in the PorchFest spirit! Come hear One Ukulele at the Market…and who will bring their Americana/Folk sound to the stage at Ascent Acupuncture during PorchFest’s 2nd shift from 7:30-9:00 PM.

Learn about Urban Arts local, art-infused summer and preschool programs

Stop at the KFNA Community Table at Sunday’s Kingfield Farmers Market and learn about Urban Arts! Located at 39thand Chicago since 1999, Urban Arts helps kids learn through an Art-Infused Learning Experience offered for students ages 3-18, including Preschool, After-school, Release Day Camps and Summer Camps.

Learn more on Sunday by speaking directly with them or by visiting here: https://www.urbanartsacademy.org

Pleasant Community Garden Wrap-Up & Pizza Event

Approximate schedule: Clean-up 10 AM -12 PM / Pizza 12-2 PM. Drop in as you can that day!

https://www.facebook.com/events/470469063692888/

Please join KFNA for the final garden clean-up of the Pleasant Community Garden on Saturday June 1 from 10 AM-noon, and then stay and enjoy a piece of pizza with us as a “thank you” for the help and the last decade of communal gardening in this spot.

Come take down the garden boxes, remove the bunny fencing, and help us move plants to a safer space on the property. It’s been a beautiful 10 years from breaking ground and creating this space–to breaking bread at garden dinners and the outdoor oven. Besides the basic crops, we have also grown Cascade hops, oyster mushrooms, and three generations of honey bees.  Thank you to the Center for Performing Arts for donating the land to KFNA for the past 10 years; it has been an educational, and inspirational community space.

KFNA Board seeking three neighbors to fill open seats

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At the April KFNA Annual Meeting and Election, five community members were seated on the board. Three additional seats remain open, however. KFNA is committed to being an equitable and inclusive organization that reflects the diversity and many identities in our neighborhood. KFNA is specifically encouraging those who have been historically underrepresented in neighborhood organizations to apply. This includes Renters, POCI,  LGBTQ+, Youth, or Seniors.

If you have any questions or are potentially interested in serving please contact KFNA Executive Director Sarah Linnes-Robinson at . Or complete and return a brief Interest Form (found below) to ; KFNA is then inviting all interested individuals to the June KFNA meeting on 6/12/19 at 7 PM, MLK Park to introduce themselves to the board.

KFNA Interest Form 2019

Don’t cry over your onions

Join your neighbors and Hennepin County Master Gardeners to learn the details about growing onions.

We’ll also be planting bush beans, zucchini, and cucumbers and learn about putting in supports for peas.

Everyone is welcome. Feel free to drop in and bring your questions, tend the soil, and meet neighbors, whether weekly or whenever you can!

Facebook Event Page

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The mission of the MLK Donation Garden, located on the northern side of the King Park Building at 4055 Nicollet, is to connect neighbors and grow food for our community. Neighbors gather every Tuesday from 5:30-6:30 PM to tend the vegetables in the boxes at the northern side of the MLK Recreation Center and discuss a weekly topic. The food we grow in 2019 will be donated to The Aliveness Project (located at 3808 Nicollet), but the knowledge you go home with is yours to keep!