“Raingarden Refresh” for Neighborhood of Raingardens 2021
Last summer was the first time we did a Neighborhood of Raingardens program in one community with a major focus on maintenance. The Sheridan Neighborhood…
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Community Engagement
We engage with communities to co-create opportunities for resilient landscapes.
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Consultations
Learn more below. We’ve finished onsite consultations for the season, but will be back next spring!
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Blue Thumb Workshops
Attend a workshops via webinar to learn how to make your yard more resilient!
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Our Capital Campaign
Your investment means we have more resources to support the communities we partner with. Thanks! Artist: Ava Barry
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Neighborhood of Raingardens
Cities and neighborhoods can make it easier and less expensive for residents to get a raingarden
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Building Community Capacity within Affordable Housing
Resident-centered design involves the community in decision-making and stewardship, benefiting those most impacted.
Consultation, Design and Install
In this video, designer Mike Morrison walks us through a landscape renovation he designed for an urban lot, replacing lawn and shrubs with native plantings that include a raingarden, winding rock wall and salt-tolerant plants in a boulevard garden.
Projects like this start with a consultation. Metro Blooms is currently scheduling fall consultations. We can follow up with a design over the winter, and schedule your installation next spring.
Apply for a Lawns to Legumes Grant
Get some help to create pollinator in your yard. Apply for up to $300 in cost-share funding for projects including pocket plantings, pollinator lawns and meadows and pollinator-friendly trees and shrubs. The deadline for applying is Feb. 15. Grantees will be notified in March. Apply through our Blue Thumb program:
Covid-19
We want to keep our workplace, staff and others who we interact with as safe as possible. For more information on how we have modified our work, click below.
Volunteer with us
Get involved! We could use your help at community planting events and in other ways. Check here to learn about future opportunities:
Image: City of Minneapolis
Free Salt Mini-Course
Be winter-ready and help keep our waterways clean! Learn best practices for using salt on roads and sidewalks. It’s easy! Do it on the City of Minneapolis website:
Metro Blooms
We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that partners with communities to create resilient landscapes and foster clean watersheds, embracing the values of equity and inclusion to solve environmental challenges. View our 2020 annual report.
We are conducting a capital campaign to raise $400,000 for our new home. Learn more.
Blue Thumb
Metro Blooms is proud to coordinate the Blue Thumb program, a partnership promoting ecologically sustainable landscapes that reduce runoff, improve water quality and protect pollinators.
Consultations
In-person or virtual visit with a landscape designer for your property. This is a first step to a design. Note: in-person consults are finished for the season and will return in spring 2022.
Equitable Engagement
Metro Blooms helps community stakeholders to be meaningfully involved in participatory clean water and green infrastructure projects that promote equity and environmental justice.
Landscape Maintenance
We offer onsite maintenance services to keep your stormwater management practices functioning and beautiful.
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Sponsor Spotlight: West Monroe and Developing Future LeadersSponsor Spotlight: West Monroe and Developing Future Leaders
Developing the next generation of leaders is part of West Monroe’s mission, and it’s one reason the digital and business consulting firm supports Metro Blooms’…
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All Nations Church: Planting Seeds of StewardshipAll Nations Church: Planting Seeds of Stewardship
Bendu Kollie wants to learn as much as she can about the plants growing in her church’s raingarden. Her church community, All Nations Seventh-Day Adventist…