Stories & Info from Baltimore Green Space

Our Fall 2011 newsletter features the story of the Duncan Street Miracle Garden.

A Family's Summer at the Duncan Street Garden, posted July 2011.

Our Spring 2011 newsletter includes a map of the 111 green spaces (on 462 lots) identified by our volunteers.

Older Media Links

The Baltimore Messenger covered a Baltimore Green Space workshop on how to preserve neighborhoods' urban oasis. July 2011.

The Baltimore Sun covered the First Annual Horseshoe Tournament at the Pit in Pigtown (protected by Baltimore Green Space since 2010), including a separate photo-essay. June 2011.

Our survey of the locations of Baltimore's community-managed open spaces was featured in the March 2011 edition of Landscape Architecture magazine.

The Baltimore Sun covered our work to let Baltimore City government know which "vacant" lots are actually community gardens, pocket parks, or other kinds of community-managed open spaces. December 2010.

Hear the podcast of the November 4, 2010, Marc Steiner Show. Baltimore Green Space's Miriam Avins discussed community-managed open spaces, along with Beth Strommen from the Baltimore City Office of Sustainability and Lewis Sharpe of the Duncan Street Miracle Garden.

Read the profile of the Duncan Street Miracle Garden in the November 2010 Urbanite, along with information on the dollar lot program that Baltimore Green Space helped to create.

Baltimore Green Space blogs about “Creating green spaces” at the Open Society Institute's Audacious Ideas blog.

Milton-Montford Garden