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Free North Omaha Summer Arts Garden Walk Offers Panoply of Sites and Activities
9 a.m. to Noon, Saturday, August 17, Up, Down, Around North 30th Street
OMAHA, NE––Art, culture and nature take root at the North Omaha Summer Arts (NOSA) Garden Walk from 9 a.m. to Noon (and beyond) on Saturday, August 17. The free, family-friendly outdoor event takes place up and down and around an historic section of North 30th Street.
Eight stops make up the annual Garden Walk, which features art and educational activities as well as displays and demonstrations. Refreshments provided.
See the Garden Walk route and itinerary on the event's Facebook page (link here).
NOSA's Pamela Jo Berry, a North Omaha artist, activist and advocate, conceived the Garden Walk as a creative way to celebrate and connect art, beauty, nature and community, while also bringing awareness to urban agriculture, sustainability, health and food insecurity. She partners with several growers and organizations to make the event a fun, informative and aesthetic experience.
“NOSA invites all who appreciate art and nature to take a stroll or drive down North 30th Street in the heart of North Omaha. Experience a sweet, positive look at what we can do in sustaining our earth, our children’s earth, and our food systems,” said Berry.
The event highlights the healing benefits of fresh, healthy food and herbs grown in backyards, community gardens and farms and how flowers beautify neighborhoods and sustain nature.
Berry’s message to anyone making the walk: “Let’s get busy taking care of our environment, our earth, all in bite sizes. Meet the conservators, the gardeners, the farmers and the stewards of the land, and along the way enjoy beautiful art and music.”
Garden Walk featured sites, activities and experts:
Omaha Public Library Washington Branch
2868 Ames Ave.
Native plants garden tour
10:30 am family story time
Plan, seek and find for kids
Book giveaways
Quilt Exhibit and raffle by Quilters We Are
Metropolitan Community College
Fort Omaha campus (5300 North 30th St.)
Building 29 – Horticulture gardens and greenhouse tours
Building 21 – Bluebird Cultural Initiative
Traditional weaving demonstrations by Robert Montana
Umonhon Reservation JAG (Job’s for America Graduates) farmer’s market
Long Summer exhibit of pastel drawings by Kristin Pluhacek
Church of the Resurrection & Incarnation Monastery
3014 Belvedere Blvd.
Let’s talk about conservation and taking care of our environment
Flower and raised bed vegetable gardens tour
Neale Woods Nature Reserve
Fontenelle Forest Birds of Prey display with Kathy Fischer
The Nature Conservancy
Book giveaways
Ecological Stations of the Cross
Prayer Garden
Nelson Mandela School
Lutheran Service Corps
6220 North 30th St.
Green Thumb and Nelson Mandella raised beds and in-ground gardens
Recipes and samples from Garden Finds, City Sprouts, Big Garden, Black Chick Farm, Healing Roots Farm
The Omaha Land Bank
NRCS State Urban and Small Farm Conservationist Brach Johnson
No More Empty Pots
Facility tour and talk on green endeavors in the city
Tours begin at 10:30 am, 11:30 am and 12:30 pm
Rooftop garden live music by bassist Bill Ritchie and pianist Dan Cervany
Omaha Public Library Florence Branch
2920 Bondesson St.
Flower garden tour
The North Lights Garden Club
1 pm talk “Everything Houseplants” by Nodest Home Plants
Gardening, farming, conservation, houseplant book display for checkout
Seed and houseplant giveaways
Scavenger hunt
The Florence Mill
9102 North 30th St. (I-680 Exit 13)
A natural history is underway at the historic Florence Mill. The landscape that the
Mormons would have discovered on arrival in 1846 is being recreated along with historical and botanical interpretation. It Is also the land and medicine cabinet of the Omaha and Otoe tribes who gave permission for their tribal lands to serve as Winter Quarters, the temporary refuge of the Mormons’ western migration, Come hear about this special garden and its status at 1 pm
The Pollinator Garden
Just north of 7224 Minne Lusa Blvd.
The original garden on the landscaped island meandering through Minne Lusa was planted in the 1990s. The strip was transformed into a pollinator garden in 2020. It is adorned with many pollinator perennials and annuals. The annuals provide nectar for countless bees and butterflies through the growing season. Visit after the Garden Walk.
Check out the event's Facebook page here!
For more information, contact 402-213-6619.
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