The Bridge between NNA's Garden Walk & Environmental Committee 2011

NNA gardeners celebrate the first completed Parkway Corner

All things are possible in the Northcenter Neighborhood! This year the Garden Club stepped up to do their part by embracing several of the Environmental Committee's initiatives. Proving once again that residence of the Northcenter Neighborhood Association are “home to many progressive and forward-thinking families who are committed to lives that make a small footprint on the earth’s resources.”

Here are the numbers on the successes of this years Garden Walk…

5th ANNUAL GARDEN WALK

44 Gardens participated in this year’s garden walk

250 maps were handed out!

GARDENERS THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE GREEN LAWN INITIATIVE

6 registered their gardens as TRANSITIONAL

3 registered their gardens as ORGANIC

2 registered their gardens as BIODYNAMIC

GARDENERS THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE PARKWAY INITIATIVE

The 1st corner was completed in time for this years garden walk (SW corner of Hamilton and Byron) The corner was designed by Rinda West, maintained by Mercedes Prause and sponsored by NNA)

GARDENERS THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE BEE TRAIL

21 registered as BEE FRIENDLY

GARDENERS THAT CERTIFIED THEIR BACKYARDS AS WILDLIFE HABITATS

3 certified their backyards as a WILDLIFE HABITAT  

A special thanks goes out to Karen Carter-Lynch and Julie Hobert for all their support in helping to build this bridge!