Kingfield Neighborhood Association

Celebrate Earth Day 2017 at MLK Park

Either walk to the park collecting trash along the way from our neighborhood to leave at the park for collection, or stop by the park and pick up a bag and gloves and help spring clean the site. Either way, join us to celebrate Earth Day!

This year, we’re excited to announce a partnership with Hennepin County Master Gardeners; from 9:30 AM – noon Master Gardeners will be available to answer all of your gardening questions. Information on a their plant sale, with both vegetables and native plants, as well as contact information for Master Gardeners in our area will be shared. Additionally, Master Gardeners will be sharing information about their Donation Garden Project with the Aliveness Project, also located at MLK Park.

Also, get your garden started with super local compost! KFNA is working with the MN Plate to Garden Compost Program and will be distributing bags of compost from the site that receives organics recycling from our community. You can complete the loop of growing food, eating food, and then turning food scraps back in to soil to grow food again! For a donation benefiting KFNA and MLK Park, you can shovel a 20 lb. bag of local compost to take back to your garden (limit 4 bags per household, please).

We look forward to seeing you and to announcing further partnerships for our upcoming Earth Day!

Breaking Ground at the Community Donation Garden at MLK Park

Hatha Yoga 4:30-5:30 PM / Garden Prep 5:30- 6:30 PM

All events located outdoors, northside of the MLK Rec Center, 4055 Nicollet

Please join us next week for our first garden meeting at MLK Park! As in the first season, 100% of the veggies we grow will benefit the food shelf and meal program at The Aliveness Project.

Mara, a wonderful AP volunteer, will lead an optional all-levels hatha yoga class near the garden site from 4:30-5:30*. The garden meeting will run from 5:30 to 6:30pm.

*In the event of rain the yoga class will take place at AP (two blocks north of the park) from 4:30-5:15pm, leaving plenty of time to walk or drive to the park by 5:30.

Come ready to stretch your limbs, help prep the beds/containers, and plant some cooler-weather selections. We will also hand out materials for those who wish to participate in MLK Park’s Earth Day event on Saturday April 22nd from 9:30-noon.

This garden is a joint project of The Aliveness Project, MLK Park, and the Kingfield.

Community Connections Conference: – Your Voice, Your City: CommUnity

 

The conference is FREE, kid-friendly, and includes an incredible lunch.  Registration will close March 24.

You are invited to the sixth annual Community Connections Conference – Your Voice, Your City: CommUnity! The conference is free. All are welcome to make their voices heard; participate in interactive sessions, robust learning and exhibits; and enjoy a delicious cultural lunch.

The Conference will feature an opportunity to participate in Minneapolis 2040, the City’s Comprehensive Plan update. Minneapolis 2040 will be the City’s 20-year vision to direct the physical development of the city into the future. Participants can find out what’s happened so far in the planning process and discuss with City staff and your neighbors how to grow the city in health, equity, and opportunity.  Design a paper movie (called a crankie) with artists, use constraints and tradeoffs to create more housing choices on a game board, and join a variety of conversations about what role the City can play in making Minneapolis a more equitable city.

There are sessions dedicated to gentrification and housing segregation. Both sessions will include presentations from researchers at the University of Minnesota followed by discussion on how the Comprehensive Plan and City policy should be address these issues.  Public Works will also be discussing equity in the new 20 year Streets Funding Plan.  You can find more information on all the sessions here.

Register at here

Southwest Communities “Future of Neighborhoods” Conversation

6:00 pm (dinner) / 6:30 (program)

The neighborhood organizations of Southwest Minneapolis, in partnership with the Minneapolis Department of Neighborhood and Community Relations, invite you to come discuss your viewpoint regarding the future of neighborhoods, including creating stable communities through respecting residents’ voices and empowering local solutions. Attendees will work with other Southwest residents to discuss current and future challenges facing neighborhoods and suggest policy and funding streams to support communities to creatively address these challenges.

Free Dinner and Childcare provided

Vegetable Growing Basics, a series of five classes

Registration open now! / Classes start April 4, from 6:30 – 8:00pm,

Register online or call 612-370-4908 to register or go to www.minneapolis.parks.org.

This popular FREE class is led by Hennepin County Master Gardeners is back! You will learn how to start, design, plant, and maintain your garden covering the most popular vegetables. You will learn how to harvest your crop and learn about future classes in food preservation. Organic gardening practices are taught and encouraged. You can’t get food more locally than from your own yard! Classes are April 4, 11,18, 25, and May 2. Teens are welcome if they attend with a parent or guardian!

To register for the class, go here. Instead you can phone the park at 612-370-4908 and tell them you are registering for Vegetable Growing Basics. You will need to give your name, address, phone number, and email address, if you have one.

This class is sponsored by The Minneapolis Park Board, Kingfield Neighborhood Association and the University of Minnesota Extension Master Gardener Program in Hennepin County.