Carolyn Harding w/ Rebecca Ness and Kevin Doenges - Love Your Alley! "Love Your Alley is about collaboration, sustainability, creativity and beauty. It is transforming our underutilized alleys into extended living space for everyone to enjoy, while creating our own Homegrown National Park in Bexley with native plants that support our pollinators and biodiversity. These events and speakers are scheduled throughout the month of May to help participants learn about planting native plants, enhancing gardens for pollinators, and much more! Registration is required and ends 3 hours prior to the start of the event.
Rebecca Ness is the Vice Chair for Green Bexley. She’s spearheading Love Your Alley, a revitalized and expanded Bexley initiative. Love Your Alley is aimed at transforming our underutilized alleys into extended living space filled with native plants and artwork for everyone to enjoy. She also organizes kids’ green boot camps to help children learn about and appreciate the natural world. She facilitates the Green Bexley Parent’s Facebook Group. Rebecca is an Acupuncturist and Chinese herbalist and recognizes the strong correlation between the planet’s health and human health. She moved to Bexley from San Francisco mid-2017 with her husband, two young boys and small dog.
Kevin Doenges is an amateur naturalist with a passion for gardening with Ohio native plants and studying insects. He is an active member of the South Eastmoor Civic Association located on Columbus's mideast side. While working with this association, he has assisted with organizing plant swaps and helping to create and maintain a native plant garden in Brownlee Park. Using the pollinator garden, Kevin and other volunteers plan to host small classes to educate citizens of the importance of native plants.
See more information on the Love Your Alley Program & Register Here:
https://bexleyoh.myrec.com/info/activities/program_details.aspx?ProgramID=29954&AdminPreview=1
https://bexley.org/loveyouralley/?fbclid=IwAR2oBnU4v68xe67e_GRjAX_XSW6oqHwjkY97012wzlAJNdM8HFG25Kx9j1U
https://homegrownnationalpark.org/
https://www.nativesinharmony.com/
https://sciotogardens.com/
https://www.columbusgardenschool.com/
https://columbus.wildones.org/events/may-22nd-annual-native-plant-sale/
South Eastmoor Civic Association Plant Swap.
All are invited.
May 8th
10am to noon
Brownlee Park. Located two blocks north of the intersection of Kenwick Rd and Livingston Avenue.
Attendees do not have to show up with plants to swap to participate. There will be plants available to simply give away including some Ohio native plants.
www.instagram.com/doengeskevin
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/south-eastmoor-nature-watch
GrassRoot Ohio, Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.
Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org,
Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.
Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.
Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/
Check us out on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/
If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753
GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085
This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/
Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8
There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
