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Tyler Street Garden is a neighborhood garden built on a former vacant city lot consisting of vegetable and flower beds located within University Heights.
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The UHC, through a partnership with Grassroots Gardens has created a community garden at 73 Tyler Street. Before the garden, the parcel had sat vacant for many years after a house fire. The garden currently features eight raised beds, a handful of fruit trees, and a colorful assortment of perennial flower beds. Local institutions such as churches or businesses as well as residents can adopt and maintain a bed. There is also a tool chest with basic gardening tools available onsite. Contact us if you are interested in getting involved or would like to host an event at the garden.

Operating as usual

12/12/2020

The sun sets on another successful growing season at the garden. 🌄💚

12/12/2020

Borrow Tools ⚒ Grow Community 💚

We can't thank y'all enough for the love and support this year. We believe that when neighbors come together, incredible things are possible! 🌈

Here's some of the ways we're putting your donations to work:
$5 plants a bulb in a park 🌷
$50 builds a new raised bed at @tylerstreetgarden 🍆
$100 plants a tree in our community 🌳
$200 crosses a tool off our wishlist 🧰

Donate to The Tool Library between now and December 17th and be entered into our EPIC virtual basket raffle. 🎟️💥

12/10/2020

Grassroots Gardens

We're $900 shy of hitting our next major milestone of $10,000 raised for our annual appeal. Can you help us today to reach 10k?

https://secure.givelively.org/donate/grassroots-gardens-of-western-new-york/annual-appeal-2020

12/09/2020

You only know something as well as you can teach it! 🤓

We're getting ready for our Spring Gardening Seminar series this coming year, with a shift to online workshops to keep our community safe. The tentative schedule is now available here, and you can now sign up for the first couple workshops in January! To find registration links and continue receiving updates on later workshops, follow the event through our "Event" tab, and make sure to check out the "Discussion" section within the event page.

Without the support of Grassroots Gardens, 73 Tyler Street would still be an abandoned, garbage-strewn lot. Consider don...

12/08/2020

Donate Now | Annual Appeal 2020 by Grassroots Gardens of Western New York

Without the support of Grassroots Gardens, 73 Tyler Street would still be an abandoned, garbage-strewn lot.

Consider donating to their 25th Anniversary Annual Appeal and help cultivate a shared connection to the land and to one another one community garden at a time. 💚

What an interesting, unique, and unexpected year it has been! We hope that you and yours were able to find food, joy, or a moment of peace in the 100+ community garden...

09/28/2020

Umm... yes please! 🐛

Join us tonight at 7pm! We're going Live and discussing how you can set up your own 🐛vermicomposter🐛 at home! Did you know that composting with worms creates more nutrients than traditional composting? It's also easy to set up in your home or apartment - no need for a yard! Tune in tonight and get the details🐛!!

https://www.facebook.com/yowtoollibrary/live

08/18/2020

The Tool Library

Today we're citizen scientists at the Tyler Street Community Garden
We're collecting soil and plant samples for the Geosciences Department at UMass Amherst to test if portable X-Ray Fluorescence instruments can quickly and accurately estimate availability of inorganic nutrients and toxic metals in garden soils.

Now that's a tool we can get behind! 🤓

#communitybasedresearch #urbanag #safesoils

07/17/2020

The Tool Library

New mulch, who dis? 💅

We've got 10 yards of wood chips and a whole lot of weeds to tame at the Tyler Street Community Garden. Join us for our first socially distance service event of the season this Saturday at 10am at 73 Tyler Street - Saturday Service at Tyler Street Community Garden

Pre-sanitized tools and gloves will be provided, but please plan to wear a mask. We will limit participation to ten people.

06/21/2020

The Tool Library

Our first dahlia bloom of the season at Tyler Street Community Garden! This variety is called White Chocolate. 🤍🍫🌼

By sharing more, we can put more of our vacant lots back into productive use.

#communitygarden #sharemore #borrowandbuild

06/08/2020

Our lipgloss is poppin'... and so are our poppies. 💋

#orientalpoppy #communitygarden #universityheights #buffalo

05/23/2020

Seedlings have arrived compliments of @ggwny. Gardening season can officially begin! 💚🌱🍅🌻👩‍🌾

05/05/2020

Why it's never too late to plant bulbs (as long as the ground isn't frozen).

These are part of last year's November collection. 🌷🌷🌷

05/05/2020

Tyler Street Community Garden's cover photo

04/22/2020

Attention Gardeners 👩‍🌾👨‍🌾

If you are interested in adopting a raised bed this season, Tyler Street Community Garden has three beds available.

Please fill out this form if you would like to adopt a bed and we will be making decisions by the beginning of May:
https://forms.gle/oAyb36K6x1a6coUUA

04/17/2020

BRRAlliance - Black Rock Riverside Alliance

Seed giveaway going strong until 1 pm or seeds are gone.

03/02/2020

Tyler Street Community Garden's cover photo

03/02/2020

Do you want to be part of the 2020 growing season at Tyler Street Community Garden?

Then share your availability via this Doodle Poll for this month's planning meeting:
https://www.doodle.com/poll/ngsce4k3m74kfuwn

👩‍🌾👨‍🌾

12/23/2019

Grassroots Gardens

Gardens help communities thrive! 💚

We've got one week left to raise another $1800 to get to our year-end goal of $10,000! Your donation today will support our 10 newest community gardens this spring so they can thrive like the Vermont Triangle Community Garden has been doing for almost 20 years now!. #squashgoals #wegardencommunities #neighborhoodinvestment

https://grassrootsgardens.wedid.it/campaigns/6937

11/25/2019

A balmy 46 degrees in November = last ditch effort to get all remaining bulbs in 🤣

Bulbs can be planted as long as the ground isn't frozen, so now's the time to plant 'em if ya got 'em!

#bulbsfordaze

https://www.sustainabletransitionsblog.com/blog-1/2018/9/13/urban-community-gardens-can-improve-city-life-but-we-have-to...

11/12/2019

Urban community gardens can improve city life – but we have to help them — Sustainable Transitions Blog

https://www.sustainabletransitionsblog.com/blog-1/2018/9/13/urban-community-gardens-can-improve-city-life-but-we-have-to-help-them-achieve-that-goal

Urban community gardens offer the potential to positively transform our urban landscapes. They provide us with space for recreation, community development, and help to mitigate the urban heat island.

08/11/2019

Shout out to our favorite master gardener, Linda Garwol, for gifting us this amazing dinner plate dahlia. 😍 Gardening is best when shared.

Stop by 73 Tyler Street to take in all our late summer blooms!

#dahlia #communitygarden #universityheights #sharemore

08/03/2019

These would look SO good in the garden! *hint* *hint*

All ceramic and plastic pots are now 20% off. Standard terracotta and gray pots excluded.

08/03/2019

Ok, we can't even with these baby eggplants! 🙈😍🍆

#eggplant #communitygarden #tylerstreet #universityheights #buffalony

07/30/2019

Grow my beauty, GROW! 🧙

#sunflower #sunflora #communitygarden #tylerstreet #universityheights

07/06/2019

This rain has got the garden looking lush just in time for next week's Capen Garden Walk. 💄💋👀

Don't forget to stop by your favorite public and private gardens on Saturday, July 13th from 10AM - 4PM!

#communitygarden #tylerstreet #universityheights #gardenwalk #buffalo #buffalove #lettherainfalldown #hillaryduffswings

07/02/2019

The garden giveth and the gardener taketh away (to giveth to another garden).

Welcome to your new home irises from the gardens at the Winspear-Tyler Triangle! 🥰

06/25/2019

We love sour cherry season! 🍒🥰

06/24/2019

We like to think we're one of the best kept secrets in The Heights! 🤫

A marvelous day in the garden debriefing with students, faculty, mentors, and champions on a semester well spent and ways to improve the Citizen Planning School for next year.

Thanks to the Tyler Street Community Garden for hosting us!

05/29/2019

Healthy food access is one of the most important lessons we can teach our children! 🍎🥦🌽🥕

Fr. Jack blesses the lettuce and herb garden with our Garden Club. The salad bar is up and running, a true “garden to table” experience for our students.

05/23/2019

2019 Master Gardener Plant Sale

Hold our purse, we'll be right back...

Great Plants, Great Prices - Huge Selection of Quality Plants Direct from the Gardens of Master Gardeners!First Presbyterian Church, One Symphony Circle, Buffalo 14201Perennials and annuals for sun and shade . Native Plants . Succulents . Hypertufa Pots . Vegetables . Herbs . Shrubs . Garden ArtB...

05/18/2019

Square foot gardening workshop taught by our favorite garden mistress, Caesandra Seawell, Manager of Pelion Community Garden at City Honors School 🌱🥕🍅

#communitygarden #ediblegarden #squarefootgardening #myothercarisaraisedbed #tylerstreet #universityheights #buffalo #buffalony

05/07/2019

Those spring feels 🌱🌷🌻

05/07/2019

Tyler Street Community Garden's cover photo

04/29/2019

Huzzah, the rain has stopped! 🙌

Just in time to spread this fresh load of soil into all our beds. Thanks Grassroots Gardens!

Join us for our first work day of the season this eve at 6PM at 73 Tyler Street. 👩‍🌾👨‍🌾

#communitygarden #ediblegarden #myothercarisaraisedbed #tylerstreet #universityheights #buffalo #buffalony

04/26/2019

Why you should turn your lawn into a meadow

All the world's a garden...

Most lawns are biodiversity deserts, but there is a simple way to encourage nature – and you don’t even have to ditch the mower

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73 Tyler St
Buffalo, NY
14214

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http://ourheights.org/tylerstreetgarden/

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Automated Community Garden Watering System

A huge congratulations is in order to the team of University at Buffalo Engineering Students who designed and built this Automated Community Garden Watering System for the Tyler Street Community Garden! Rain water is collected and automatically distributed to the raised beds to provide a reliable source of water while saving gardeners time and energy. From theory to practice to community feedback to community installation, this project is an example of service learning solving real world issues. Can't wait to see the system continue to grow and evolve! #proudparents #futureofeducation #communitylearning

Great weather all week and a shout out to the Pelion Community!?! Don't forget to head down to the Pelion Community Garden today (206 Best Street) for their Buffalo Public School Garden Fair from 4-6pm. Enjoy the garden, hands-on activites, food, games, and the whole shebang! Come support Buffalo Public Schools and the importance community gardens can have on fostering creative development,

From Vacancy to Community Vitality

The University Heights Collaborative through a partnership with Grassroots Gardens WNY created the community garden at 73 Tyler Street in 2013 after a house fire many years before left the land in deplorable condition. But, with tremendous sweat equity and effort from local residents, neighbors, and community organizations the garden has transformed into a flourishing urban paradise for urban gardeners, and native plant and insect populations featuring ten raised beds, three sour cherry trees, and a colorful assortment of perennial and shade flower beds.

In true to being a community garden, local institutions, churches, businesses and as well as residents can adopt and maintain a bed in the garden for free all in exchange for their commitment to upkeep and maintenance. As a raised bed adopter, you are entitled to the produce you grow in that garden and ask visitors to the garden to please refrain from picking from those beds. However, the on-site tool shed provides our gardeners and visitors the opportunity to get their hands dirty to weed or harvest from our community raised bed which is open to the public to enjoy.

We’re always looking for new gardeners and neighbors to host events and attend workshops so contact us if you are interested in getting involved!

Garden and Grow,