Delmar Sunflower+ Project
Donation protected
Last summer over 150 volunteers planted and tended 15,000 sunflower seeds… that is 30 rows… 375 feet long… 9 inches apart… ! The result was beautiful, stunning, fun, and very hopeful.
Want to help this summer? Sign up to Volunteer and/or Contribute on line… $10…$20… $50… $250… $1,000… it all helps!
The Delmar Sunflower+ Project is an initiative to activate and beautify a vacant stretch of Delmar. The area is near Third Degree Glass at 51xx Delmar.
Once this stretch of Delmar was a thriving residential community with hundreds of residents – today it sits vacant, forgotten and forlorn.
The Delmar Sunflower + Project, is an outgrowth the Sustainable Land Lab, a partnership between Washington University and the City of St. Louis aimed at rethinking vacant land in St. Louis. The goal of the Delmar Sunflower+ Project soil remediation, community building, and ultimately to spur redevelopment of these long vacant parcels.
This fall, we plan to bring partners together to hold a charrette - a collaborative session in which a group of designers drafts a solution(s) to a design problem – to identify good development ideas for the site.
Meanwhile… the Delmar Sunflower + Project enhances all of us who participate and those who get the pleasure of just walking, bike riding, or driving by.
The owner, CWE Housing Corporation, is a not for profit 501c(3). Funds raised will go towards equipment rental, tilling, grass cutting, Mo Botanical Garden consulting, signage, taxes on the property, and the monarch butterfly garden.
Want to help this summer? Sign up to Volunteer and/or Contribute on line… $10…$20… $50… $250… $1,000… it all helps!
The Delmar Sunflower+ Project is an initiative to activate and beautify a vacant stretch of Delmar. The area is near Third Degree Glass at 51xx Delmar.
Once this stretch of Delmar was a thriving residential community with hundreds of residents – today it sits vacant, forgotten and forlorn.
The Delmar Sunflower + Project, is an outgrowth the Sustainable Land Lab, a partnership between Washington University and the City of St. Louis aimed at rethinking vacant land in St. Louis. The goal of the Delmar Sunflower+ Project soil remediation, community building, and ultimately to spur redevelopment of these long vacant parcels.
This fall, we plan to bring partners together to hold a charrette - a collaborative session in which a group of designers drafts a solution(s) to a design problem – to identify good development ideas for the site.
Meanwhile… the Delmar Sunflower + Project enhances all of us who participate and those who get the pleasure of just walking, bike riding, or driving by.
The owner, CWE Housing Corporation, is a not for profit 501c(3). Funds raised will go towards equipment rental, tilling, grass cutting, Mo Botanical Garden consulting, signage, taxes on the property, and the monarch butterfly garden.
Organizer
Lyda Krewson
Organizer
St Louis, MO