Metro Blooms

What We Do

Metro Blooms envisions a just future of thriving communities where all people connect with and care for the land, water, and diverse life around them. We advocate alongside communities impacted by environmental injustice, recognizing everyone’s rights to clean air, land and water. We are in kinship with the natural world, acknowledging that people and the environment are tied together. 

Get to Know Our Work

We remove barriers to meaningful involvement in environmental projects that help protect clean water and habitat, like rain gardens that help clean water and native plantings to protect pollinators. We all have a stake in working together to take climate action and to address environmental injustices.

We share knowledge and we work together with communities to get projects in the ground. We collaborate with local residents and deeply-rooted organizations to plan deliberately for engagement tailored to the communities we serve. Our partnerships also provide opportunities for local training and employment, and space for connection, to each other and to nature.

Some of Our Programs

• Through our Sustainable Landcare Training we create pathways to green jobs in stormwater management, empowering young adults from communities impacted by environmental injustice to gain job-ready skills and pathways to green careers.

• We work with residents of rental communities to co-design outdoor spaces that center resident priorities, are climate resilient, and protect the environment. Residents are part of decision-making and are paid to support installation and long-term care.

• 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. 

• Through our statewide Blue Thumb education programming, we offer accessible resources to plant for clean water, pollinators, and other wildlife. We provide opportunities to take on projects, individually and with others.
  

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 our Sustainable Landcare Training, workshops, 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.

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