If you missed the 2024 open house, you can read about the eight gardens here. If you are an experienced gardener and would like to show your garden and share your knowledge, please contact Sustainable Berea about participating in the 2025 Urban Agriculture Open House.

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The following material is from the 2024 Open House. The 2025 Open House is still being planned.

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Saturday June 29 from 11:00 to 3:00

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Welcome to the 2nd Annual Berea Urban Agriculture Tour Sponsored by the Berea Urban Farm (BUF). Urban agriculture refers to various practices of cultivating, processing, and distributing food in urban areas. It ranges from a window box herb garden to raised beds, a backyard mini-orchard or a full-size urban farm like the BUF. It takes 80,000 pounds of food a day to feed Berea, and the industrial food system that supplies us is struggling under the impacts of climate change, resource depletion, and economic challenges. We need to grow more of our food, and this tour is an opportunity to learn from (and thank) some of the many Bereans who are helping to build a local food systems.

The BUF brings you this tour at no charge. Donations are always appreciated.

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Urban Agriculture Open House Sites

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Berea Urban Farm - 201 Adams St

A 1.4 acre educational market garden. In addition to a vegetable production area, there are orchards, high tunnels, raised beds, an apiary, and a medicinal herb garden. The Agri-Culture Garden showcases more than 30 culturally-relevant African-American and Hispanic food plants.

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Therese Hildebrand and David Kennedy - 152 Courtland Ave.

This is the first year garden by experienced gardeners on a small lot. The vegetable garden features several different types of trellises, traditional vegetables and herbs, some heat tolerant tropical greens and some experimentation with azolla, a floating nitrogen-fixing fern.

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Caitlin McClanahan and Martin Richards - 107 Holly St.
Well established gardens focusing on large perennial pollinator bed, various bramble fruits, fruit and nut trees and select annual vegetables.

Darrell Johnson - 318 Peach Bloom Hill

This household is terracing the very steep yard into usable garden space. There are also creative uses of small spaces, homemade cold frames, and plenty of flowers.

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Lynette and Matt Willis - 636 Big Hill Rd.

This backyard houses raised beds, birdhouses, a small pond, a rain barrel and a lawn of mostly clover. There are tropical plants such as banana, ginger, peppermint, canna and tree fern. The soil is amended with homemade compost, vermi-compost and worm tea.

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Eastridge Community Garden - 401 Estill St. Contact Danielle Capillo

This community garden includes 17 garden beds, fruit bearing trees and bushes and pollinator friendly flowers. Member dues provide maintenance of an electric deer fence, water, shared tools and mowing.

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Gin Petty - 7 Fairway Drive

Gin has more than 50 years of gardening experience. This backyard garden is a combination of organic practices when possible and other methods learned through the years. The garden yields more than 30 different vegetables and fruits.

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Dave and Kim Kobersmith - 105 Leslie Drive

The front yard of this small urban lot is a garden oasis. It includes 14 perennial beds, an asparagus patch and 5 kinds of perennial fruit. They nurture butterflies, pollinators, and other insects with a certified monarch waystation and abundant native perennials.

Please visit sites only during the scheduled Open House hours.