July 18, 2022 Join the Plate to Plant compost program!!! Imagine Grinnell is staring itssummer subscription drive (open for the whole month of August). Composting is as easy to start and has a huge impact. By putting your food scraps into the compost bin, you can divert 1/3rd of your car's carbon emissions for the year! [...]
June 25, 2022 Beautiful kale ready to go at Marvin Garden. Volunteers meet up twice a week to maintain the garden. Every Thursday evening and Sunday morning. PM us for more details or just show up. Marvin is located on Marvin Ave. west of Los Girasoles.
June 17, 2022 Thank you to our Prairie Burn 100 volunteers! It was a success and we could not have done it without you.
May 18, 2022 New compost dirt straight from the compost bins at Marvin Garden going onto the beds. Thank you Plate to Plant for your hard work! If you would like to learn about compost pickup in Grinnell send us a message or sign up here: https://bit.ly/3sGvrUl
April 21, 2022 Imagine Grinnell and its 1000Trees Grinnell project will be holding a free spring tree distribution with assistance from Grinnell Mutual on Saturday, May 14. This distribution is open to all residents in the 50112 zip code. 1000Trees will have the following trees available to residents: Red Oak, Bur Oak, Red Maple, [...]
April 15, 2022 Custom Jersey Orders Due April 19 The 2022 Prairie Burn 100 gravel bike ride will take off from Grinnell, Iowa’s Central Park on Saturday, June 11, 2022, with a start time of 7 A.M. The ride is a fundraiser for Imagine Grinnell, a nonprofit that manages programming for healthy and sustainability [...]
April 2, 2022 Fruit tree workshop and planting- one week from today! April 9. See the details below and join us. You can win a free fruit tree!
March 22, 2022 Imagine Grinnell’s 1000Trees Project invites the public to attend a fruit tree workshop on April 9 at 10-11 a.m. at Ahrens Park. Dr. Suzanne Slack, a faculty member at Iowa State University, will discuss the planting of bare root fruit trees as well as care and maintenance of fruit trees in general. [...]
March 7, 2022 Have you heard? Prairie Burn 100 is back on June 11. Register here: https://www.bikereg.com/prairie-burn
January 18, 2022 Volunteers needed! Do you have a love of the environment? Do you like to ride a bike? Have we got the job for you! Join Imagine Grinnell and the Plate to Plant composting crew on a weekly ride to retrieve the yellow buckets!
