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Neighbors Naturescaping
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, underground utilities and other urban […]
2014 Neighbors Naturescaping Program Kick-Off
Join us on Wednesday, June 4th at 5:30 p.m. to kick-off the 2014 Neighbors Naturescaping season! Learn how the Neighbors Naturescaping program can help your community grow. Brightside staff will go through the application packet in detail and explain the judging criteria considered by the Selection Committee. Application packets will be distributed and staff will […]
Brightside Helping You Help the Monarchs
As you can probably gauge from the giant Monarch sculpture at the entrance to our Demonstration Garden, we love butterflies, especially Monarchs. Their spectacular multi-generational migration from Mexico to Canada and back each year continues to amaze children and grown-ups alike. Sadly, the population of Monarchs has declined drastically over the years. Researchers believe the […]
Brightside Featured on City Corner
Learn more about what Brightside St. Louis is doing to make St. Louis a cleaner, greener and better place to live. Executive Director Mary Lou Green explains on STL TV’s City Corner!
20 neighborhood gardens enhanced through Neighbors Naturescaping
Thanks to the generosity of the Employees Community Fund of Boeing St. Louis, Forest ReLeaf of Missouri and Peabody Energy, 20 neighborhood gardens will be enhanced through our Neighbors Naturescaping program. Parks, school grounds, neighborhood entrances, medians, street barricades, vacant lots and community gardens will be planted with 8,500 daffodils and tulips, 2,000 perennials and grasses, […]