Minneapolis Edible Boulevards

Minneapolis Edible Boulevards’ (MEB) mission is to provide access to fresh produce and the skills for growing and harvesting fresh produce in Minneapolis neighborhoods suffering from food apartheid policies. We are mending the fractured food system by activating self-sustainability throughout our communities, one boulevard garden at a time.   

One of MEB's goals is to contract with individuals or urban agricultural groups led or co-led by our Black and Brown relatives from each Green Zone for facilitating skills' instruction in the community. In 2022, this was where the youth from Growing North Minneapolis learned how to create in-ground gardens on the boulevard at Oak Park Center in North Minneapolis (with boulevard being defined as the space between the curb and the sidewalk).  In the summer of 2023, we had youth working alongside the instructors to learn gardening skills. with the intention that they'd be the ones teaching the participants by the end of the summer.

Teaching community members how to grow their own food, providing them with the knowledge to teach others and sustain themselves, showing participants how to cook simple healthy meals with their harvest, taking the time to meet neighbors and learn skills from them, and working towards changing the food system are all solutions-based goals of our program. The in-ground garden design also conserves water by eliminating water runoff, and each garden's existence reduces the amount of carbon in the air. To be sure, before the ground is even broken, we test the soil to make sure it's safe for growing produce.

As our friend and urban ag. partner Michael Chaney from Project Sweetie Pie says, "We are changing our broken food system neighborhood by neighborhood, block by block, boulevard garden by boulevard garden." And we need your help to do it! 

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