Giving Tree Gardens

Compost Is Heating Up!

Rooster — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:28:00 +0000

Organic gardening and farming are based on the notion that when we build our soil’s natural fertility through composting we strengthen our environment and grow the land’s capacity to provide us with health.

It’s a pretty good system when you think of it. We throw [...]

Gardening At School, Growing Healthy Kids

Rooster — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:50:00 +0000

Whenever a young person learns to garden, the future grows a little more green and healthy. When an entire school learns to garden together, sustainability sprouts in the imaginations of tomorrows community. This spring, Giving Tree Gardens worked with the Anoka-Hennepin School District to teach some of the basics of Earth- friendly food gardening to [...]

Community Design Forum

Rooster — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 01:39:00 +0000

Is your block club, church group, or office place ready to go green? In this time of shrinking budgets we need to recognize the assets in our communities and help them grow into a sustainable future!

Community Design Forums are meetings where folks come together to create action plans for moving forward with changes [...]

Consultation and Garden Coaching

Rooster — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 01:33:00 +0000

Giving Tree Gardens now offers our professional landscaping consulting services for all those do-it-yourself clients that would simply like a little advice. Many of our clients love to garden themselves, but want to have a professional on their side. In order to help folks [...]

Maintenance

Rooster — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 01:25:00 +0000

Giving Tree Gardens landscaping department offers year round garden and landscape maintenance services. Our landscaping maintenance crews are out maintaining our client’s organic gardens and landscapes from the time the last snow melts in the spring till the ground freezes again in the fall.

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Garden Installation

Rooster — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 01:11:00 +0000

Giving Tree Gardens professional landscape and garden installation service crew work closely with our clients and with our garden designer Russ Henry to install award winning organic gardens.

The landscape installation services team at Giving Tree Gardens aim to make as little negative impact [...]

Organic Landscape Design

Rooster — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 01:03:00 +0000

As owner of Giving Tree Gardens, Russ Henry works closely with each of his Landscape Design clients to create organic gardens that fulfill the needs and desires of each client. Giving Tree Gardens designs and services are each individually crafted to create functional enchanting [...]

Video: Edible Landscapes, Food Justice, and more!

Rooster — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 03:19:00 +0000

Gardening can make our urban areas healthier, safer, and more beautiful. In this brief video, Russ Henry speaks out passionately in favor of making Minneapolis a model city for environmentally sound practices.

Local Links

Rooster — Tue, 31 May 2011 05:19:00 +0000

Here you’ll find links to some of our business, non-profit, and community partners in growing a more beautiful and bountiful Twin Cities for ourselves and future generations.

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Public Recognition

Rooster — Mon, 30 May 2011 21:24:00 +0000

WE WON! In 2007 Giving Tree Gardens and The Seward Co-op Grocery and Deli were honored with an award for The Best Business Garden in the city, from the MetroBlooms organization of Minneapolis. Reprinted [...]