On a sunny morning at Columbia’s Agriculture Park, a group of third graders gathers around a raised garden bed, wide-eyed as they dig their hands into the soft soil. Later, they’ll make “veggie bowls” with the produce they’ve harvested and explore the different parts of a plant — leaves, roots, and stems. Nearby, volunteers from […]
Late winter sunlight bathed the still-new insect sculptures at the Columbia Agriculture Park at Clary-Shy Park in mid-March. The metal critters were featured at a Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture (CCUA) ribbon cutting in October 2024. One installation has three ladybugs attached to the entrance of a trellis walkway into the Agriculture Park. The other
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Morphing from something resembling a small street fair a decade and a half ago to a ten-acre festival today, Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture’s annual Harvest Hootenanny is ready for its fifteenth edition. The community event is set for 4-8 p.m. Saturday, September 21, at Columbia’s Agriculture Park at 1769 W. Ash St. Admission to
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Unique Veterans Urban Farm is safe and welcoming Lace up your work boots and put on your gardening gloves as we explore a place you might have overlooked. Once you know a little bit more about this distinctive veteran’s project, you will likely see this as a unique approach to support our local veteran population.
There is an old proverb that says “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” Change the proverb to talk about plants and it might as well be the Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture’s mission statement: “To enhance our
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Summer is so much more than a season; it’s a mindset, a mood, a way of life. Not only can you feel it arrive, but you can also taste it. With so many foods at the peak of freshness, every bite seems a little lighter and alerts your taste buds that the best time of
