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Your city. Your store. We are a cooperatively-owned, for-profit retail garden center, offering plants and plant-related supplies. We are open to the public and are committed to the betterment of our West Side neighborhoods and to the City of Buffalo. We know that keeping local dollars in the immediate area benefits all of us. Volunteer today and come join our team!

Winter and Spring Workshops

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2012 Winter and Spring Gardening Series

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Gardening 101

Gardening 101: at Urban Roots on Sunday, January 15 at 12 noon.

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Gardeners’ Give & Take

The first 2012 session of Gardeners’ Give & Take was held at Urban Roots on Saturday morning.

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Gardeners’ Give and Take

Gardeners’ Give and Take Warm up a chilly Saturday morning with garden conversation. Gardeners’ Give and Take is an informal round table [...]

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Sunshine, Sales and Social – What Fun!

Member-Owner Appreciation Day and Annual Meeting was held at Urban Roots on Saturday.

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UR Committees Need You!

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The UR Board is looking for any interested Member Owners to participate in some of the standing Urban Roots committees.

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School garden at Urban Roots

Please stop by and check out the community garden during your next visit to Urban Roots. Enjoy the vegetables, beneficial flowers, and hand painted signs welcoming you to the garden.

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Buffalo Unscripted Meet Up!

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Filming will take place on Sunday, July 17 at 9am – 12pm.

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Bike Wheels in the Garden

A bike wheel trellis serves the vine area at Urban Roots.

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Grassrooted!

The Grassrooted open house was a success.

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We’re Getting Ready for Plants!

Spring cleanup in the Urban Roots yard.

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More Tips & Topics: Gardeners’ Give&Take

Trying to keep deer from eating the fruit off your trees? Slugs eating your strawberries?

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Garden Knowledge Club

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Join Urban Roots Garden Knowledge Club – Learn and Save!

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Tips and Topics from Gardeners’ Give&Take

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How can we prune our perennial chrysanthemums so they come back bushy and generous with bloom year after year?

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Gardeners’ Give & Take

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Rabbits, Encroaching Shade, Tomatoes and The Wild Garden: some of the diverse subjects of Gardeners’ Give and Take.

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Gardeners’ Give & Take Meets Again

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The gathering of gardeners’ at UR again talked over a # of interesting subjects.

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Winter-into-Spring Workshops

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Get busy in winter, get ready for spring – before you know it, it will be here!

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Gardeners’ Give & Take – 1st Session

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A full table talked gardening questions, problems, resources and interests, (with really good cookies!) on Saturday morning.

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Winter and Spring Workshops

2012 winter and spring gardening series begins soon – see the selections for this season here!

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Gardeners’ Give & Take

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Come and share thoughts, questions, plans and projects at Gardeners’ Give and Take.

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2010 Board of Directors

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Welcoming a new board and a sad farewell to departing Directors.

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We Need Your Help!

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We need 10 new member owners by Saturday to reach our goal of 700!

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Dig a Little Garden

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How community gardens will save Buffalo and the world, one block at a time.

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Rhode Island Street Community Garden

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An exciting season of gardening for students.

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Thank You Bloggers!

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We want to extend a special thanks to the garden Bloggers who visited buffalo last week!

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Container and Rooftop Gardening

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July 10th Workshops – come on down!

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Garden Bloggers at Urban Roots

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Over 70 Garden Bloggers coming to Urban Roots!

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Get Your Signs Out!

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Get your garden noticed with your unique UR garden sign!

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Growing our Member-Owners!

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Join us – Member-Ownership Drive this Sat between 11 and 1!

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Urban Roots on Flickr

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Check out some of our new photos at our Flickr page!

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Volunteer Recruiting!

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Do you have a special skill or ability to share with us?

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Buffalo Gardens in the Press!

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Buffalonians “…drunkenly sharpening their Felcos…”

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18th St. Park Project – This Weekend

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Volunteers needed at the park on Rhode Island and 18th Street.

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Member Appreciation Day – Oct 3rd

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Please join us for Member Appreciation Day on October 3rd.

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Photographers Needed

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Help spread the word about our Community Garden Center using your photography talents and creativity.

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Discount on Books for Member Owners

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We are currently offering a discount of 15% off the price of in-stock books.

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Special Member Owner Garden Tours

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If you have a green thumb and want to show off your beautiful scenery…

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Moving the Shed!

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We need your help to move the Show House garden shed this Friday!

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Showhouse Shed Finds Home at UR

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We collaborated on building a garden for Junior League Show House.

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Help Unloading Deliveries

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Riverkeepers donated 57 rain barrels!

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Show House Tear Down

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We need some helping taking down the shed!

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Recovery Garden Day Volunteers

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The morning of May 30 at the Buffalo Museum of Science.

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