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Garden-Lou Spotlights the Belleville Heart Garden
The Belleville Heart Garden doesn’t like the word “NO.” Instead of posting a list of rules in the .4-acre community demonstration garden, the stewards encourage community involvement and sharing. This approach to community…
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Garden-Lou visits the Transgender Memorial Garden
Sometimes, and almost always by accident, you find something extraordinary and beautiful. I happened upon one of these moments in the Benton Park West neighborhood while pulling honeyvine milkweed (Ampelamus albidus) off a…
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Garden-Lou visits Rustic Roots Sanctuary
Something is growing in Spanish Lake. You might have heard of Columbia Bottom Conservation Area and the annual sunflower fields there. Maybe you’ve heard the new Nation Personnel Records Center now calls Spanish…