GardenWalk Cleveland is a free tour of private gardens, community gardens and urban farms in the City of Cleveland over a weekend in the summer.
Leader
Janet Kious
Location
12541 Cedar Road Cleveland Heights, OH 44106
Impact areas
We organize a free, self- guided tour of private gardens, community gardens and urban farms in different neighborhoods of Cleveland. Our goal is to encourage visitors to explore Cleveland and get to know its residents and to see how much "greening" is going on in the city. There are many abandoned properties and vacant lots in Cleveland which have been turned Into orchards, vineyards, farms and gardens.
An environmental problem that GardenWalk is attempting to address is to change flight from the city and the subsequent sprawl by exposing people who live in the exurbs to the vibrancy of the inner city; increase production of food locally by showcasing examples of farms and vegetable gardens; showcase ways to turn abandoned city lots into productive spaces which remediate brownfields.