Minneapolis Edible Boulevards

Minneapolis Edible Boulevards’ (MEB) mission is to provide access to fresh produce and the skills for growing and harvesting fresh produce in Minneapolis neighborhoods impacted by food apartheid. Racial, economic, environmental and historical injustices have led to health disparities in our food system . We are mending this fractured system by activating self-sustainability throughout our Minneapolis Green Zones and adjacent neighborhoods, one boulevard garden at a time.   

One of MEB's goals is to partner with individuals or urban agricultural groups led or co-led by our Black and Brown relatives from each Green Zone for facilitating skills' instruction in the community. In 2022, youth from Growing North Minneapolis learned how to create in-ground gardens on the boulevard at Oak Park Center in North Minneapolis.  In the summer of 2023, we had youth from North and South Minneapolis working alongside the instructors to learn and ultimately teach the gardening skills.

Teaching community members how to grow their own food, providing them with the knowledge to teach others and sustain themselves, showing participant how to cook simple healthy meals with their harvest, taking the time to meet neighbors and learn skills from them, offering free cooking classes, and working towards changing the food system are all solutions-based goals of our program. The in-ground rain garden design also conserves water, and each garden's existence reduces the amount of carbon in the air. Before the ground is even broken, we test the soil to make sure it's safe for growing produce.

As our friend and urban agriculture partner Michael Chaney from Project Sweetie Pie says, "We are changing our broken food system neighborhood by neighborhood, block by block, boulevard garden by boulevard garden." And we need your help to do it! 

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