Friday community leaders will come together to christen a garden in a city park.
St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay along with Alderman Jeffery Boyd, State Rep. Talib El Amin and St. Louis Rams Linebacker Will Witherspoon will kick-off National Gardening Month with students from the Hip-Hop Health Initiative.
Together they will take part in a groundbreaking ceremony and ribbon cutting in Barrett Brothers Park at Goodfellow and St. Louis Avenue at 11 a.m. Friday.
Students from Ford, Gundlach and Mitchell elementary schools in North St. Louis will take part.
The event is in conjunction with HopeBuild, a St. Louis organization working with underserved youth, promoting healthy lifestyles and the Urban Farmers of Detroit.
Hopebuild is part of the Urban Farmers program.
This latest urban garden will be part of four other “Garden of Hope” projects in the city where residents use green spaces to grow produce. Two of the gardens are in North St. Louis and two are in South St. Louis.
HopeBuild also runs the “Garden of Eden,” three-community based produce markets run by volunteers.
Slay and others will be on hand to speak about the “importance of community school gardens and their Holistic benefits.”
The Hip-Hop Health Initiative is part of a Mark Twain Resource Center program and is funded by the after-school program ARCHS.
April 4th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
If Slay is involved, it’ll be a garden of weeds!
April 4th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Congratulations, po. for finding an education article to post a comment about.—for that matter, congratulations for finding any education article at all.
On the fashion front, your shirt looks nice.
April 7th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Slay owns some black politicians, and wants to see them out on a plantation. He would love to see some black children out in the hot sun picking something, but he won’t do anything about the crime in the same area.
Talib El-Amin should be ashamed of himself for working hand in hand with Slay when he knows that Slay is involved in a recall led by State Representative Jamilah Nasheed. What a Uncle Tom! However, Talib El-Amin has no choice since his wife Yaphett El-Amin works for Slay at the Airport providing contract minority participation monitoring. The El-Amins have sold out to Slay!
April 7th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
A garden in Barret Brothers how wonderful. You’ve got to be kidding me! Children could not have football practice last fall for bullets flying in the park during practices litterally.
April 9th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
I am a Barrett and attended the event on april 4 with many of our Barrett cousins. It’s too bad that more people can’t be like Kyria and her entourage. It takes good people to do good things. When I lived in that area everyone looked after each other. Children looked up to their superiors, police, teachers. Where are the parents?
I hope Kyria is supported in her efforts for her HIP HOP Garden.