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Demonstration Garden
St. Louis Urban Gardening Symposium
St. Louis Urban Gardening Symposium Urban gardening is simply the process of growing plants in an urban environment. However, growing plants in urban areas can present certain challenges less common […]
Brightside Helping You Help the Monarchs
Brightside Helping You Help the Monarchs As you can probably gauge from the giant Monarch sculpture at the entrance to our Demonstration Garden, we love butterflies, especially Monarchs. Their spectacular […]
Mayor Slay Gets Dirty in Brightside’s Butterfly Garden
Mayor Slay Gets Dirty in Brightside’s Butterfly Garden The setting could not have been more perfect for Mayor Francis G. Slay to reveal a new City sustainability initiative, Milkweeds for […]
Brightside Featured on City Corner
Brightside Featured on City Corner Learn more about what Brightside St. Louis is doing to make St. Louis a cleaner, greener and better place to live. Executive Director Mary Lou […]
St. Louis grows older; Brightside celebrates with Cakeway to the West
St. Louis grows older; Brightside celebrates with Cakeway to the West Brightside St. Louis is proud to announce our involvement in the city’s 250th birthday celebration. We were voted […]
20 neighborhood gardens enhanced through Neighbors Naturescaping
20 neighborhood gardens enhanced through Neighbors Naturescaping Thanks to the generosity of the Employees Community Fund of Boeing St. Louis, Forest ReLeaf of Missouri and Peabody Energy, 20 neighborhood gardens […]
Brightside St. Louis Day
Brightside St. Louis Day Yep – it exists! Moving forward, we’re proud, excited and honored to announce that June 22nd has been officially proclaimed Brightside St. Louis Day in the […]
Community Education Fair a tremendous success!
Community Education Fair a Tremendous Success! Thanks to all of the fantastic organizations that participated in this year’s community education fair in our Demonstration Garden. Thanks to them, this year’s […]