Urban Roots

Next week is our first official week of summer programming with 78 youth interns working with us. Here's a photo of our group at orientation, which took place earlier this week. We’re so excited for a summer of growing food, native plants, skills, leadership, community, and more! 🥕🌱

If you would like to help our youth interns have a summer of growth, please consider giving a tax-deductible donation to Urban Roots. See 🔗 in the comments for how to give. Thank you so much! 💚

🐝BEE excited because here’s the update! 🌱

🌼Our interns and staff worked together to create and start on our Children’s Garden at our Rivoli site. Although it was a lot of planning and our interns worked hard in the heat, we all made it through and made many beautiful designs for our children’s garden. Such as weeding, bed prepping, seeding, planting transplant, and so much more. Our labor is helpful for our neighbors!⭐

🥒We also went to our First Covenant Church site to start planting cucumbers galore. We also posed with a bunch of leftover growing onions.🧅

✏️Last Tuesday, our interns planned and organized a wonderful amount of skits and activities for our Youth Orientation! Building communication and ideas with one another! 📝

🌦Meanwhile last Thursday, our interns visited our Rivoli site and planned their Youth Led Beds, or now newly known, Yelbies! However, we had to get a rain check because of the rain. 💧

💫Luckily, after some fun in the rain, we had a back up plan and went to our green house to do some deep cleaning. After some cleaning, our interns played a game of Mafia and enjoyed some time inside from the rain! 🧹

Check out this new article by MinnPost about Fairview Health Services' efforts to center healthy food access in patient care and our new community garden at Fairview's Rice Street Clinic: https://www.minnpost.com/community-health/2026/06/local-effort-to-expand-nutrition-access-pays-dividends-for-patients/

Local effort to expand nutrition access pays dividends for patients Outside of an M Health Fairview clinic in St. Paul, a community garden represents a more holistic approach to care.

Join Urban Roots, Nature Yoga Club , and Trilingua Cinema at the Rivoli Bluff Farm and Restoration Site for yoga and a movie and enjoy food from Karibu's food truck in between! 🧘🏽🍿

You can do yoga (registration required - see link in comments), stop by for Karibu, watch the movie (Fantastic Mr. Fox, 2009, PG), or join us for everything!

📅 Thursday, July 23
📍 Rivoli Bluff Farm and Restoration Site, 749 Arkwright St, St. Paul, MN
🎟️ Free event, Karibu food for sale

Schedule

6:30 pm: Opening

7-8 pm: Yoga. Space is limited, and registration is required (see 🔗 in comments). Yoga mats will be available or bring your own.

8-9 pm: Purchase food from Karibu's food truck, listen to live music, explore the sight, and get free popcorn from Trilingua Cinema. No registration needed.

9 pm: Movie (Fantastic Mr. Fox, 2009, PG). No registration needed. Bring your own chair, blanket, etc. Flashlights are helpful.

Additional Details:

🧻 Portable bathroom available on site.

🌱 This event takes place on a working farm with uneven, unpaved ground.

🚗 Street parking available.

⛈️ Subject to weather cancellation.

❓ Contact [email protected] with questions.

Thank you to 4imprint for the grant we received earlier this year. We now have a lovely new tablecloth for our farmers markets (Mill City Farmers Market in the photo) and cool pencils to give away! 🥬✏️

If you want to learn more about our farmers markets and events, visit UrbanRootsMN.org/events

Join Urban Roots and Saint Paul Public Library for a weekly storytime and garden activity at the Urban Roots Children’s Garden at the Rivoli Bluff Farm and Restoration Site! 📚🌱

📅 Thursdays, June 11-August 27
🕥 10:30-11:30am
📍 749 Arkwright St, St. Paul

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Help plant gardens on Arcade Saturday morning! Reach out to [email protected]. 🌸🌼🌻

Payne-Phalen Community Council

WaterFest is "shore" to be great - see you there! 💧💦

Join us Saturday, May 30th from 11am-4pm at the Lake Phalen Park Picnic Pavilion to celebrate our clean lakes! With activities like canoeing, a fishing competition, and art-making, it's the perfect day to enjoy with your family. We hope to see you there💧