The Fargo Project isn’t alone in trying to restore a habitat that supports birds and pollinators. Much of what is planned for the World Garden Commons stormwater basin at Rabanus Park in Fargo includes prairie restoration, as does the Audubon Dakota’s Urban Woods and Prairies Initiative. The initiative includes 1,000 acres along 28 Red River miles…
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The Fargo Project aims to build a road map for modifying infrastructure within the City of Fargo to provide necessary hydrologic benefits and adding ecologic and social benefits to selected sites. In 2016 through 2020, professors and graduate students from NDSU will conduct research within the first of these sites, World Garden Commons, a stormwater…
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Plains Art Buzz Lab interns visited World Garden Commons, the first installation of The Fargo Project. Artist Dwight Mickelson shared how The Fargo Project’s approach led to a community vision for environmental intervention, landscape restoration which benefits pollinators, our water system and people through Growing Together ~ A Community Garden Ministry.
TEDx Fargo continues to celebrate ideas and actions from the region at this year’s event on July 21, 2016. Speakers include Growing Together’s Jack Wood, who, along with community have produced over 45,000 pounds of produce and have utilized their toolkit to help over a dozen organizations begin their own community gardens. Jack is one of the…
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