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Make An Impact with Metro Blooms
Metro Blooms partners with communities to nurture and support thriving ecosystems, land, and water. We believe that caring for our shared environment also strengthens our connections with one another. We work alongside community to co-create rain gardens, pollinator plantings, healthier tree canopy, and opportunities for youth leadership. Together, we’ve helped thousands of Minnesotans restore habitat,…
Disability Justice Co-Learning Session
Join us on Zoom for a conversation to learn about disability justice, and how it shows up in Metro Blooms’ work. We’ll also share some accessible gardening tips and tools that you can try out at home. Together, we’ll explore: What is disability justice? Why is disability justice integral to environmental justice? How does disability justice show up…
Native Plantings Take Root at Face to Face Academy
When Metro Blooms Environmental & Social Justice Manager Manny Vazquez called out, “Who wants to help me plant the tree?” two students immediately shouted “Me!” and ran over without hesitation. That moment captured the spirit of the afternoon at Face to Face Academy: students taking ownership, working side-by-side withvolunteers, and helping shape a space they…
Low Maintenance Landscapes with Metro Blooms Design+Build
“Low maintenance” is one of the most common requests our Metro Blooms Design+Build team hears. Many of us want a landscape that is friendlier for the environment while being easier to care for—but what that looks like can vary widely. Does it mean no mowing? Less weeding? Fewer seasonal chores? When it comes to landscaping…
Strengthening Tree Canopy
Career Readiness + Exploration
Tree Outreach and Education
A Garden of Sweetness
End of Year Gathering: A Garden of Sweetness Friday, December 12
A Healthier Tree Canopy, One Tree at a Time
Metro Blooms is working with residents in and near North Minneapolis to replace condemned ash trees and plant new ones that will strengthen the future canopy. These projects are about more than trees—they’re about community, care, and resilience. Metro Blooms is well-known for rain gardens and native plantings for pollinators, but trees are just as…
Rain Gardens in Seward: Research, Training, and Community
In the Seward neighborhood in Minneapolis, a cluster of boulevard rain gardens is doing more than soaking up stormwater. They are a living experiment in plant research, a training ground for young landcare workers, and even a canvas for student art. Since last fall, Metro Blooms has been working under contract with the City of…
More Ways to Give
The work to protect Minnesota’s lakes and rivers, to support pollinators, and to create resilient landscapes in all of our communities starts with each of us. We are planting the seeds for a more sustainable future. Thank you for supporting our work with a gift.
Shared Leadership
Partnering With Green Garden Bakery: Vegetables, Desserts and Rain Gardens
Jaden Scott says the best restaurants and bakeries are the ones with items you can’t find anywhere else. Like East African sweet potato donut holes. Or gluten-free lemon zucchini muffins. These are just two of the goodies offered by Green Garden Bakery, a youth-run business known for its vegetable-based desserts where Jaden, 19, is the…
Fundraising Event Registration
We’re excited to see you at our fundraising event on June 12! Please let us know you’re coming by filling out the form below!
Dreaming Together: Land Care For Our Future
Dreaming Together: Land Care for our Future is a fundraiser to support Metro Blooms’ Sustainable Landcare Training program! Join us for brunch, storytelling activities, and a panel discussion featuring past Sustainable Landcare Training participants. Together, we will activate our imaginations to dream of the world we want—one that inherently values deep care for the land and…
Our Commitments
Metro Blooms Land and Labor Acknowledgement: We are on the stolen homelands and treaty territory of the Dakota Oyate [oy-yah-tay]. Minnesota, the US Government, and European white colonizers carried out genocide, ethnic cleansing, and forced removal of the Dakota to acquire land and wealth. The Ioway [eye-oh-way], Hocąk [ho-chunk], Anishinaabe [Ah-Nee-shin-AH-bay] and other Indigenous Nations…
Fundraising Principles
CLCLT: Partnering With Land Trust Homeowners
Metro Blooms started partnering with the City of Lakes Community Land Trust (CLCLT) and the City of Minneapolis in 2023 to provide workshops on sustainable gardening and yard care to CLCLT homeowners. The land trust, a nonprofit based in Northside Minneapolis, helps make home ownership more affordable and provides support to its homeowners to maintain…
Video: Connecting With Community at Riverside Plaza
Since 2018, Metro Blooms and Riverside Plaza, a rental community in Minneapolis, have collaborated to redesign outdoor spaces for greater environmental resilience and better quality of outdoor living. We’ve engaged with residents at community meetings, workshops, social events and community-planting events, working with the Riverside Plaza Tenant Association (RPTA) and owner Sherman Associates. Resident input…
Video: Blooming Boulevards in Minneapolis
Through Blooming Boulevards, we engage residents in communities impacted by environmental injustices to receive pollinator-friendly boulevard rain gardens, taking part in planting and maintenance events. We also partner with local youth/young adult groups on learning and paid work opportunities. We are building ongoing relationships through this program; every year, we learn more about better supporting…
Bunker Hills Regional Park
About This garden design showcases the many diverse ways you can bring native plants into just about any landscape. The photos show the site at the start of the process. Have a look at the design below to see the different plants and how they’re used. For a large area, consider a seeded pollinator meadow.…
Minnehaha Regional Park
About The planting at Minnehaha Glen is a part of the larger restoration effort in Minnehaha Park to replace invasive species, like buckthorn, with native plants. When MPRB staff assessed the site, they found several native plant species present despite encroaching species like buckthorn and burdock. The short list of plants in the design complement…
Keller Regional Park
About This garden is part of a larger restoration effort around Keller Lake and the nearby Keller Golf Course to bring native plants back to public spaces. Ramsey-Washington Metro Watershed District, which has worked in these spaces for years, brought together students from American Indian Magnet, Water Stewards, Master Gardeners, and its own staff to…
Lebanon Hills Regional Park — Holland Lake Trailhead
About There is a native plant for every space — and the garden at the Holland Lake Trailhead in Lebanon Hills Regional Park is a showcase of just that! In a small footprint, this garden manages to showcase spring-blooming showstoppers, prairie plants for drier areas of full sun, shade-loving plants happy to thrive under a…
Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden
About The Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden in Theodore Wirth Park in Minneapolis features a pollinator meadow. Staff at Eloise Butler created the design and community volunteers, along with the Mississippi River Green Team and Conservation Corps of Minnesota and Iowa, planted the meadow. The matrix style of the meadow includes flowering plants mixed in with…
Turf to Pollinator Gardens
Creating Native Plant Pollinator Havens Do you want to attract more pollinators in your yard? We’ll show you how, through Turf to Pollinator Gardens. In partnership with Wilderness in the City and others, we planted six native plant pollinator gardens in Twin Cities regional parks. The gardens replaced turf grass lawn, which offers little food…
Battle Creek Regional Park
About The large garden at Battle Creek Regional Park includes a pollinator meadow with two smaller gardens, one at the southeast corner and one on the western edge. Thanks to a partnership with Ramsey-Washington Metro Watershed District and Saint Paul Public Schools, the meadow was planted by students from L’Etoile Du Nord French Immersion School,…
Sustainable Landcare Training 2024
Edwin, a member of our Design+Build landcare crew, likes discussing plants. Our crew maintains rain gardens, native plantings and other green infrastructure practices in the Twin Cities Metro. When residents stop by with questions about plants, Edwin points out different species, especially potential weeds that may spread quickly. “Just to be able to identify…
Video: Sustainable Landcare Training Mentorship
Our Blue Thumb Sustainable Landcare Training program trains young adults in environmental justice communities to care for rain gardens, native plantings and other green infrastructure practices. Participants are paid for their time and gain job-ready skills and pathways to green careers. In 2024, we connected some trainees who completed the program to mentors working in…