City Blossoms

Open time is canceled in the Girard and Kelly Miller gardens today (8/28) due to high temperatures! Stay cool, and we will see you again soon ☀️

We will be closed for the week from Monday, August 19 - Monday, August 26. This includes our office and our garden sites. We will see you again soon!

Join us at our first Garden Workday of the fall, followed by a picnic in a park! On Saturday 9/7 we will convene at 10am in the Eastern Senior HS Garden for a variety of garden tasks, then at 1pm we will take a short walk over to Lincoln Park to enjoy food from Falafel Inc. RSVP on our calendar! https://cityblossoms.org/new-events/2024/09/07-volunteer-opportunity-eastern

Summer Saturdays are coming to an end! Join us at our final fun-packed Saturday of the season THIS Saturday 8/17 from 10am - 12pm at the City Blossoms Studio (516 Kennedy St NW). See you soon! 🌿🌸

Join us on Saturday, September 7 for the first garden workday of the fall season! We will be in the Eastern Senior High School Garden from 10am - 1pm doing a variety of garden activities to get the space ready for fall programming. You can learn more and sign up here! https://cityblossoms.org/new-events/2024/09/07-volunteer-opportunity-eastern

Open Time is cancelled today (8/6) because of the high temperatures! 🌡️🔥 Stay cool and hydrated today and throughout the week! 💧

#1 on the menu and #1 in our hearts🥇🏆 Give it up for the real MVP tonight @5:30pm, 516 Kennedy St NW, DC
Basil Bonanza is our annual family-friendly potluck featuring a youth-judged cooking contest! 🌿 Get creative with a dish or drink that can feed up to 5 people and and share it with our community✨

LOCATION CHANGE - 516 Kennedy Street NW! Due to the heat advisory and possible afternoon thunderstorms, we are shifting Basil Bonanza to a new location - our headquarters! Join us starting at 5:30pm at 516 Kennedy Street NW, Washington DC 20011. If driving, there is free two-hour parking in the neighborhood, including Jefferson, Ingraham, and 5th streets.

Can't join us? No worries! Please share a photo of your basil recipe creation on social media and tag us or email us a photo at [email protected]!

Stay safe and we hope to see you later today!

Open Time at Marion is canceled today (Thursday 8/1) due to the heat! Stay cool and hydrated!💧🌺

We are canceling Open Time at all of our sites today due to high temperatures! We will see you again in the gardens soon 🌱

WOAH we found treasure! 🥕✨🤭 The garden continues to be full of surprises!

See what you’ll discover this week at ✨SUMMER SATURDAYS✨ in our City Blossoms Studio Garden (516 Kennedy St. NW) from 10am-12pm 🕚

Congrats to these kiddos on unearthing this HUGE mutant carrot! 🧑🏽‍🌾👏🏽 Tomorrow (7/20) we’ll be making a recipe from our cookbook. Bring your family and friends for kid-driven garden exploration!

Open Time is canceled today due to the extreme heat! 🥵 🌡️ Stay cool and drink water!
¡Tiempo Abierto hoy es cancelado! Hace demasiado calor! 🥵🌡️ ¡Manténganse fresco y Toman agua!

Basil BONANZA is HERE! 🌿🎉🍽️

💜 Join us at Marion Intergenerational Garden on Friday, August 2 for a BASIL THEMED POTLUCK

✨This is an annual family friendly event for all ages featuring good eats and a youth-judged cooking contest!

🌱 You can come to any open time to harvest basil for your dish leading up to the event
* Fort Stanton - Tuesdays 4-6pm
* Marion - Tuesdays & Thursdays 4-6pm
* Girard- Wednesdays & Fridays 4-6pm
* Kelly Miller - Wednesdays & Fridays 4-6pm

📍 Visit https://cityblossoms.org/community-green-spaces for addresses to our green spaces

We can’t wait to see (and try!) what you make!

🎨 Artist Credit:

Open Time is canceled today due to high temperatures!

🌶🍅🌱 Starting this Saturday, 7/13, 10am-12pm, join us for Summer Saturdays 2024 and harvest these goodies to take home!

Explore a kid-driven and community-centric green space at the City Blossoms Studio Garden at 516 Kennedy St. NW. Come enjoy FREE programming filled with Summer Activities and Nature Play - fun for the whole family! No registration needed, just enter through the back gate accessible on 5th street.

See flyer for dates. For more information, feel free to contact [email protected]. See you there!

🪴🚸 In fall 2023, City Blossoms launched new partnerships with two middle schools, Ida B. Wells and Eliot-Hine . This spring, we partnered with our new partner communities to build their school gardens! Over the next five years, City Blossoms’ program will support these school communities in developing their own garden-based education programs to meet the communicated unique needs of their communities. Huge SHOUTOUT to the youth, faculty, staff, parents, volunteers, and funders for making this dream a reality! 👏🏽

Join us this July at one of our three garden workdays!
🌺 Wed 7/17 from 10am - 12pm at UPO @ Eagle
🌼 Sat 7/20 from 10am - 1pm at the Farm at Kelly Miller
🌸 Fri 7/26 from 9:30 - 11:30am at the Farm at Fort Stanton

Visit cityblossoms.org/calendar to learn more and sign up!

Open time is canceled today at all of our sites! Stay cool everyone!

Fiesta was truly a family affair! 🪅🤗🧡

📸: Beverlié Lord,

City Blossoms presents Summer Saturdays 2024! Explore a kid-driven green space at the City Blossoms studio garden at 516 Kennedy St. Come enjoy FREE programming filled with Summer Activities and Nature play - fun for the whole family! No registration needed, just enter through the back gate accessible on 5th street. See flyer for dates. For more information, feel free to contact [email protected]. See you there!

Come cook with us during Open Time programming this week! Starting today! 🥬🍅

LKAlso, at Open Time this week, learn about the new SUN Bucks program, which provides eligible students with $120 to buy groceries this summer! Can't make it? Scan the QR code on this post to sign up, or at sunbucks.dc.gov.

Wow! 🤩 What a time we had last week at our annual gala, Garden Fiesta: Flower Power Disco🌼🪩💐Thank you to all those who could attend and make the night truly special. Together, we met our fundraising goal of $40,000 to launch City Blossoms into our new 2024-2028 Strategic Plan. This would not have been possible without our sponsors, vendors, raffle donors, staff, board, volunteers, community members, and so many more!! 🧡

Photo Credit 📸: Beverlie Lord,

City Blossoms is excited to hire a Program Fellow! Visit www.cityblossoms.org/careers to access the job posting. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis and the deadline to apply is Monday, June 24th at 11:59pm ET.

City Blossoms fellowships are designed to support the professional development of young leaders interested in community and youth engagement, non-profit management, outdoor education, urban agriculture, and environmental and food justice.

Fellows work side-by-side with the City Blossoms team, receive training and coaching, and are provided the opportunities to lead their own projects within program areas. Fellowships are offered annually, require 20 hours a week, and include an hourly wage.

We are almost one week out from The City Blossoms Garden Fiesta, our annual fundraising event. Join us in toasting to equitable, kid-driven green space in a fun-filled evening for all ages!

Behind the camera all evening is the incredibly talented, Beverlié Lord (also our board chair!), on behalf of her business Satsun Photography. For the second year in a row on the 1s and 2s is Zach Pleasant, our groovy DJ for the night. Last, but certainly not least, Patricia Pedranza is back once again to adorn us with her astonishingly beautiful and thematic face painting superpowers.

Tickets are selling fast, grab yours now at www.cityblossoms.org/fiesta! We look forward to seeing you in the garden on Friday, June 14th.

Once again, huge THANK YOU to our sponsors for making this event a huge success: Kiwanis Chapter of Washington DC, Toast, Inc., Call Your Mother Deli, Brett Brenner and Brian Reid, Fernanda Fisher, Jeff Bell, Makenzie Delmotte, Beatriz Otero and Fernando Lemos, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, and Kennedy Counseling Collective!

Help us build a brand new garden at Ida B Wells Middle School this Wednesday June 5th! We will be on site from 9:30am - 12:30pm completing phase two of the new build. Visit cityblossoms.org/calendar to RSVP! 🌿

We are just two weeks out from The City Blossoms Garden Fiesta, our annual fundraising event. Join us in toasting to equitable, kid-driven green space in a fun-filled evening for all ages!

City Blossoms is proud to feature two local, family-owned Palestinian businesses as our food vendors for this year’s Garden Fiesta, Z&Z and Bawadi Mediterranean Grill. Enjoy a variety of vegan, vegetarian, and non-vegetarian Palestinian recipes, including man'oushe, falafel, rolled grape leaves, and so much more!

Keeping our thirst quenched is our very own Kendra Hazel and her plant-based wellness business, Green Things Work, as well as local black-owned Caribbean rum brand, Ten to One.

Finally, for dessert, our neighbor and staple Kennedy Street business Everyday Sundae will bring the best ice cream flavors to the Garden Fiesta for dairy and non-dairy lovers to enjoy!

Tickets are selling fast, grab yours now! We look forward to seeing you in the garden on Friday, June 14th. www.cityblossoms.org/fiesta.

Once again, a huge thank you to our sponsors for making this event successful and for your investment in our programs: Kiwanis Chapter of Washington DC, Toast, Inc., Call Your Mother Deli, Brett Brenner and Brian Reid, Fernanda Fisher, Jeff Bell, Makenzie Delmotte, Beatriz Otero and Fernando Lemos, Hunton Andrews Kurth, and Kennedy Counseling Collective!

Get ready for our last month of the spring/summer volunteer season! Here is the schedule:

🌺 Sat 6/1 at Randle Highlands Elementary from 10am - 12pm
🌸 Wed 6/5 at Ida B Wells Middle School from 9:30am - 12:30pm
🌼 Sat 6/29 at the Marion St Intergenerational Garden from 10am - 1pm

You can sign up at cityblossoms.org/calendar by clicking the event links!

Open time at Kelly Miller is canceled today!

The City Blossoms Garden Fiesta is our annual, family-friendly, fundraising event. Join us in toasting to equitable, kid-driven green space in a fun-filled evening for all ages! Get your tickets at www.cityblossoms.org/fiesta or through the link in our bio!

Interested in becoming a Flower Power Disco Sponsor? In addition to promotion within our extensive City Blossoms network, your sponsorship will invest in community-centered green spaces and opportunities for young growers to thrive as leaders.

For more information about sponsorship levels and details, contact [email protected] or give us a call at (202) 882-2628. Huge thanks to all our Garden Fiesta sponsors so far, Kiwanis Club of Washington DC, Call Your Mother Deli, Toast Tab, Brett Brenner and Brian Reid, Fernanda Fisher, Makenzie Delmotte, Beatriz Otero and Fernando Lemos, Jeff Bell, and Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP!