Michele J
July 26th, 2010, 01:07 PM
Come check out some of Buffalo ReUse's treasures..
Our Rain Garden at the corner of Northampton & Michigan is very new! It was installed by National Grid employees as a corporate service project this past Earth Day 2010. The garden was designed by Matthew Dore of Buffalo Horticulture. Matt regraded the vacant double lot to guide rain water into the middle (like a shower drain) where a pergola was built surrounded by blueberry bushes. The lot also features a privacy fence using reclaimed flooring. The perennial flower beds have a backdrop of foundation stone. Planters built from reclaimed hemlock floor joists double as seating along the sidewalk.
Keep traveling down Northampton and
You’ll discover a Bee Sanctuary which was once a vacant lot, but is now a warm blanket of yellow, amber, and bronze with summer wild flowers. (In the spring the lot was dotted with blues, pinks and purples). The wild flowers are native to the North East and are helping to fortify a sagging urban bee population.
Our Children’s Vinery is truly unique! It has an apple tree and six arbors supporting a variety of pole beans, melon, squash, tomatoes, eggplant and chard. We have Mobile Victory Gardens donated by artist, Stella Maars which are growing herbs and pumpkins. We’re just adding a teepee of morning glories. We have experimental containers for growing potatoes and a strawberry patch which has delighted people of all ages!
The Patchwork Garden is also a sight–50 different beds which neighbors, volunteers and groups have adopted! Folks plant whatever they want in this community garden and they enjoy having a place to grow their own food and relax. We host events like movie nights, cooking demos, art, performances and free gardening workshops in the garden.
Just around the corner there is another style of community garden, The Cold Spring Community Garden on Southampton and Masten, managed by Dan Ash and Jessica Lang. Their garden is a site where five houses once stood, but now there is an 8foot wall of tomatoes, several rows of vegetables and raspberry vines. There are also fruit trees which will mature into a mixed bowl of cherries, plums, peaches, pears and apples! Volunteers and neighbors work in the garden and are able to eat what they harvest.
Our Rain Garden at the corner of Northampton & Michigan is very new! It was installed by National Grid employees as a corporate service project this past Earth Day 2010. The garden was designed by Matthew Dore of Buffalo Horticulture. Matt regraded the vacant double lot to guide rain water into the middle (like a shower drain) where a pergola was built surrounded by blueberry bushes. The lot also features a privacy fence using reclaimed flooring. The perennial flower beds have a backdrop of foundation stone. Planters built from reclaimed hemlock floor joists double as seating along the sidewalk.
Keep traveling down Northampton and
You’ll discover a Bee Sanctuary which was once a vacant lot, but is now a warm blanket of yellow, amber, and bronze with summer wild flowers. (In the spring the lot was dotted with blues, pinks and purples). The wild flowers are native to the North East and are helping to fortify a sagging urban bee population.
Our Children’s Vinery is truly unique! It has an apple tree and six arbors supporting a variety of pole beans, melon, squash, tomatoes, eggplant and chard. We have Mobile Victory Gardens donated by artist, Stella Maars which are growing herbs and pumpkins. We’re just adding a teepee of morning glories. We have experimental containers for growing potatoes and a strawberry patch which has delighted people of all ages!
The Patchwork Garden is also a sight–50 different beds which neighbors, volunteers and groups have adopted! Folks plant whatever they want in this community garden and they enjoy having a place to grow their own food and relax. We host events like movie nights, cooking demos, art, performances and free gardening workshops in the garden.
Just around the corner there is another style of community garden, The Cold Spring Community Garden on Southampton and Masten, managed by Dan Ash and Jessica Lang. Their garden is a site where five houses once stood, but now there is an 8foot wall of tomatoes, several rows of vegetables and raspberry vines. There are also fruit trees which will mature into a mixed bowl of cherries, plums, peaches, pears and apples! Volunteers and neighbors work in the garden and are able to eat what they harvest.