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Demonstration Garden
Spring Garden Party
Spring Garden Party Enjoy a night in the demo garden! Learn about the Young Friends of Brightside St. Louis group and take a tour of the demonstration garden to see sustainable gardening practices in action. Yemanja Brasil’s, Brasil Express food truck and STL Kettle Corn will have food for purchase. Complimentary beverages will be provided […]
October 2014 Brightside Events & Volunteer Opportunities
October 2014 Brightside Events & Volunteer Opportunities What’s Brightside up to this month? Check out this list of events and projects we’re looking forward to for October.
October Garden Party
October Garden Party Join the Young Friends of Brightside St. Louis for a fall garden party on Thursday, October 30th from 6:00-9:00 p.m. This is a great chance to mingle with other young professionals while sipping on complimentary beer and wine provided by Schlafly and Robller Vineyard and Winery.
Sincere Thanks to World Wide Technology
Sincere Thanks to World Wide Technology Brightside St. Louis would like to extend a sincere thank you to the Finance Department employees from World Wide Technology for their recent volunteer efforts and generous donation of $5,307. This great group volunteered twice this summer with Brightside. The first group of volunteers spent a beautiful July morning […]
Looking Back and Planning Ahead
Looking Back and Planning Ahead So far, 2014 has been a great year at Brightside St. Louis. From hosting our first Urban Gardening Symposium to revamping the beloved Blitz program, 2014 has brought great things to Brightside and we are excited to see what the rest of the year has in store. Check out our […]
Take a Virtual Tour of our Garden
Take a Virtual Tour of Our Garden Lace up your virtual walking shoes and take a stroll through our newly-upgraded Demonstration Garden webpages. Thanks to the creative team at Wired Impact, you can now visit online and learn about all of our Demo Garden’s environmentally-sustainable gardening and urban-conservation practices from the comfort of your own […]
Walking on Broken Glass
Walking on Broken Glass Brightside’s garden is sporting some new bling this summer. That’s right, the garden has a sparkly and colorful new accessory that is the envy of all nearby gardens. Drumroll please….it’s Filterpave, a permeable pavement pathway that winds through the garden and is made from recycled glass and crushed river rock.
St. Louis Urban Gardening Symposium
St. Louis Urban Gardening Symposium Urban gardening is simply the process of growing plants in an urban environment. However, growing plants in urban areas can present certain challenges less common in more rural or even suburban settings. In urban cities, where the population is more concentrated, things like buildings, sidewalks, streets, stormwater runoff, overhead wires, […]