Who We Are

Mission

Metro Blooms partners with communities to create resilient landscapes and foster clean watersheds, embracing the values of equity and inclusion to solve environmental challenges.

Vision

Engage communities to create resilient landscapes.

Values

Ecological health; environmental justice; education; inspiration; community engagement; and partnership

Metro Blooms works with individuals, community groups, local government, non-profits, business owners, artists, elders, renters, youth, and people most impacted by environmental injustices. We provide resources for pollinator habitat, rain gardens, and other sustainable outdoor practices.

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Metro Blooms, a non-profit, carries out our community engagement work

Blue Thumb, Metro Blooms’ education program and a statewide partnership

Metro Blooms Design+Build, a for-profit landscaping company that supports our non-profit

How We Do Our Work

Our work is based on the belief that everyone has a right to clean air, land and water.

We all have a stake in working together to take climate action and to address environmental injustices.

We plant, teach, and learn about rain gardens, native plants and healthy trees.

We value the wisdom of people of all ages and experiences.

What We Offer

  • Design, installation, and care of environmentally-friendly practices
  • Grant distribution for DIY native planting at homes
  • Workshops and resources on pollinator-friendly practices and clean water strategies
  • Support for communities most impacted by environmental injustices with funding and support to design, install, and care for outdoor spaces that meet resident needs.

Meet Our Teams

  • Our Community Relations team practices equitable engagement centered in intentionality, community power, connection, and resource redistribution.We believe in restoring land and healing our relationships to nature and each other.
  • Our Education team coordinates Blue Thumb partners to offer trainings and DIY resources on pollinator-friendly plantings and stormwater management practices for residents across Minnesota.
  • Our awesome Design+Build crews install resilient landscapes and restore habitats, focusing on clean water strategies and native plants.
  • Our skilled Design+Build designers work with our Metro Blooms teams to re-envision outdoor spaces that meet community needs.

Equitable Engagement

At Metro Blooms, we work to create the conditions for all of a community’s members to be meaningfully involved in environmental improvement projects protecting clean water and habitat. We carry out our work using principles of equitable engagement and environmental justice. We intentionally partner with communities that include people of color, lower-income neighborhoods and rental communities.

We all have a stake in working together to address the most difficult environmental challenges of our time. We need as many people as possible to be part of the solution. Our work is based on the belief that everyone has a right to clean air, land and water, but we know that not everyone has the same access. This needs to change. Now more than ever, we confront the reality of inequity in our lives based on unacknowledged privilege and institutionalized racism. Learn more on our Environmental Justice page.