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St. Louis (7 Dec 2016) –Cabrini Greens School Garden in St. Louis, MO was expanded in Spring of 2016 as a result of an award from Gateway Greening. Four wooden picnic tables were installed. An additional four wooden benches and one watering hose were awarded. Cabrini Greens has 9 adult gardeners from the community and […]

Recently we sat down with our Volunteer Team to find out what questions they hear most often. From tabling in the community to working with volunteers in community gardens across St. Louis, these are the top 10 questions our volunteer team hears! Are you the same as Great Rivers Greenway? Don’t you do the trails? […]

“My name is Kierra Graves, and I am a member of the 2016 Dig It crew. I am a rising senior of MICDS. Before beginning the Dig It program I assumed that I would be planting flowers and digging up dirt around the city. I had been referred to this job by a co-worker’s family […]

This Giving Tuesday we’re raising $5,000 to support Dig It STL! 2016 saw such demand for our summer teen employment program, Dig It STL, that we’ve decided to expand it to a year-round program! Now, students can continue to get hands on with diverse urban agriculture and conservation initiatives around the city throughout the school […]

A look back at the founding, building, and overall impact of the Gateway Greening Urban Farm. The Gateway Greening Urban Farm (formerly known as City Seeds) started out as most things do – as a “what if?” floating around the organization back in 1998. For a nonprofit dedicated to addressing food security issues through the […]