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🥬 Chard Your Yard kicking off its annual garden building spree
Nobody can accuse Chard Your Yard of mission creep. For 13 years, the grassroots group has maintained a singular focus: Building raised garden beds for people in Longfellow, filled with high-quality soil, in order to spread the good gospel of growing your own food. All done by volunteers, once per
☔ Mid-month miscellanea: April
A jam-packed rundown of mid-April neighborhood happenings.
🚦 46th and Hiawatha intersection will be reworked next year
The changes will remove lanes from 46th Street and add a new pedestrian stoplight.
🛶 A new canoe take-out trail is coming to the south end of the river gorge
The new trail will traverse a gully just south of the Horace W.S. Cleveland Overlook at 44th Street.
🌷 Spring is almost sprung at Northerly Flora
As we speak, some of the 15,000 tulips planted behind Northerly Flora's 42nd Avenue studio are beginning to poke out of the soil.
🗓 Whenever Wherever: April events calendar
A roundup of hundreds of events in Longfellow this month.
🍀 March Whatevers: Monthly miscellanea
Heroic Goods is closing for happy reasons, lean times at Turquoise Vintage, Asian Duck reopens, mysterious lightpole art, and more.
🏘️ Push to rename Edmund Boulevard gaining momentum
The idyllic street is named for a land developer who pioneered the use of racially restrictive deeds in Minneapolis.
⛪️ The Longfellow church that redefined modern religious architecture
The unusual case of the Saarinens at Christ Church Lutheran.
📚 MPS eyeing vacant Cooper School for new home of Anishinabe Academy
A task force recommended the site as the permanent home for the academy, which has shared a building with Sullivan STEAM School since 2009.
🎙️ “Hiawatha Neighbor” podcast begins third season of interviewing neighbors
The show takes hyperlocality to a level that puts even this newsletter to shame, and has developed a commensurately small but loyal base of listeners. They launched the show's third season last week.
⛸ Temporary “all-weather” skating rink and sauna coming to the old U.S. Bank site
There will be signs of life for the remainder of the month at 2800 East Lake, the vacant former U.S. Bank property.
🥟 There's a momo factory inside the old East Lake Library
Subash Yadav is scaling up production of his Mr. Momo product from an unlikely facility: The historic former library on 29th and Lake.
💘 February Whatevers: Monthly miscellanea
American Rug Laundry's building for sale, summer camp planning, Longfellow Whatever turns 1, and more.
🗓 Whenever Wherever: March events calendar
A roundup of hundreds of events in Longfellow this month.
🌯 Longfellow Breakfast Burrito Checklist (feat. Heavy Table's James Norton)
Teaming up with a Longfellow-dwelling food writer to try every breakfast burrito in the neighborhood.
🎪 Half Pint Co. kicking off third season of kid-friendly events at Arbeiter
The duo throws free events at Arbeiter geared towards hands-on learning with a literary flair.
💣 Time Bomb Vintage turns 10
A visit to Time Bomb Vintage, ahead of its 10 year anniversary party on Saturday.
🚊 A look at plans for the Lake Street LRT station overhaul
The station will undergo a full renovation next year.
🏭 Vacant Nokomis Mill may soon come down
ADM is seeking approval to demolish the mill it shuttered in 2019, with an early-stage plan to sell the site for apartment redevelopment.
🍙 The yawning cave beneath us
Legendary urban geologist Greg Brick explores the largest known cave in Minneapolis – in the heart of Longfellow.
🗓 Whenever Wherever: February events calendar
A near-comprehensive roundup of events in Longfellow this month.
❄️ January Whatevers: Monthly miscellanea
The possible return of Open Streets, the future of 3000 Minnehaha, aspiring wordsmiths at Sanford Middle, and more.
🧺 Ghost groceries of Longfellow
Former corner grocery shops are all over the neighborhood, visible reminders of that ultimate emblem of old-timey neighborhood life.
🏗️ “Ultra-efficient” four-story apartments coming to 36th and Minnehaha
Crews are underway deconstructing a 116-year-old triplex at 3561 Minnehaha Ave, making way for what developer Cody Fischer describes as a “carbon-smart, ultra-efficient” 32-unit apartment building with ground-level retail
🎤 Minnehaha Recording Company turns 10
Tony Williamette has embraced the visibility of his corner studio at 45th and Minnehaha.
🚀 Who is shooting in Brackett Park?
Neighbors and officials met Monday to troubleshoot a new trend of people firing guns in the park late at night.
🚍 Bus fare just got cheaper. Let's ride the neighborhood routes.
Everywhere a bus or train can take you in the neighborhood.
🧊 The 42nd Ave ice tower
Nate Rylander's latest front-yard attention grabber.
🌙 MoonStone "magical gifts" shop moving in next to Sonora Grill
The mystical gift shop — think crystals, tarot, incense — plans to open in the former Repair Lair space later this month.
