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McKinley Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) workers.
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In 2010, the McKinley Community neighborhood organization and residents decided to pursue urban farming as a way to improve the use of their community garden space and learn organic growing practices.
In the inaugural year, through the work of volunteers and supporters, the new McKinley CSA (consumer supported agriculture) provided weekly shares of vegetables to the seven member households that paid for this service. In 2011, with support from NRP and the McKnight and Pohlad Foundations, McKinley Community was able to hire people to manage the CSA, more than triple (from 8 to 28) the number of paying members, and buy a vacant commercial building that houses the operations of the CSA, the offices of the neighborhood organization, and community meeting space.
The building is located on the primary north-south route through the neighborhood. The McKinley is especially proud to have taken this space - once a thriving neighborhood flower shop, but glaringly marred and left vacant by a tragic homicide in 2005 - and turn it back into a neighborhood asset that serves as a vital hub for neighbors.
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| INVESTMENT |
$45,900 Commercial Building Renovation - NRP Phase I funds
$100,000 CSA Start-Up - NRP Phase II funds | |
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| LOCATION |
| 3300 Lyndale Avenue N. and City View Community School | |
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| PARTNERS |
City of Minneapolis NRP
McKnight Foundation
Pohlad Foundation. | |
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