Central West End Farm Celebrates 10 Years with Fundraiser for Food Pantries The online event will be held on Earth Day, April 22 The Central West End (CWE) Farm will celebrate its 10-year anniversary on Earth Day, Wednesday, April 22 with an online fundraiser to benefit local food pantries. Arthur Culbert, Ph.D., and Nancy Culbert,…
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Holiday Pop-up, Toys for Tots, and an update on future of CWE Farm
Designers Amy Johnson and Daphne Benzaquen have opened a holiday pop-up at 314 N. Euclid, next to SubZero. Amy, who recently changed the name of her clothing business from KayOss to KLarIty, has hosted pop-ups in different locations around the neighborhood since 2012. Daphne, who was born in Peru, raised in St. Louis, and is…
New City School: The ABCs of creating a community garden
Earlier this summer I found CWEnd-based illustrator Maggie Pearson (see 2013 post here) picking juneberries, aka service berries, on Euclid. She was a little sheepish about getting “caught,” as she wasn’t sure that picking berries off city trees was legal (she later found out that it’s ok). It seems that birds had devoured berries from…