Rooted in the community: gardens bring neighborhoods together
By Prachi Patel / Staff Writer
October 25, 2017
Filed under 2. Featured, Culture
Whether it’s planted on a worn-down baseball field, hidden in a church’s vacant parking lot or sandwiched between two houses, Pittsburghers have repurposed sections of their neighborhoods into community gardens — green spaces where neighbors can meet, mingle and grow crops together. Pittsbu...
Plant to Plate an urban garden ‘oasis’ for Oakland, Pittsburgh
By Stephanie Roman / Staff Writer
July 15, 2014
Filed under Culture, Specials / Summerguide2014
Eleanora Kaloyeropoulou crouched by the wooden planter box picking beets and kale. While this sounds like a scene from a rural or suburban landscape, she harvests these vegetables from a lot on Oakland Avenue. Kaloyeropoulou, a Pitt junior majoring in Africana studies and history, is co-president of the student organization Plant to Plate,...