🌷 April Miscellanea
A cats-only salon, traffic calming projects, construction at Minnehaha Academy, explaining the extra plane traffic, and much more.
🏡 Strolling the suburban-style "Luella A. Anderson" neighborhood, with Andy Sturdevant
The "Luella A. Anderson" development stands out to anyone who wanders the southern reaches of Longfellow, even if they don't know it by name. It's a place where the neatly-gridded, bungalow-lined streets are suddenly interrupted by curving roads of postwar homes, often architecturally ambitious,
🥬 Chard Your Yard kicking off its annual garden building spree
Nobody can accuse Chard Your Yard of mission creep. For 13 years, the grassroots group has maintained a singular focus: Building raised garden beds for people in Longfellow, filled with high-quality soil, in order to spread the good gospel of growing your own food. All done by volunteers, once per
☔ Mid-month miscellanea: April
A jam-packed rundown of mid-April neighborhood happenings.
🚦 46th and Hiawatha intersection will be reworked next year
The changes will remove lanes from 46th Street and add a new pedestrian stoplight.
🛶 A new canoe take-out trail is coming to the south end of the river gorge
The new trail will traverse a gully just south of the Horace W.S. Cleveland Overlook at 44th Street.
🌷 Spring is almost sprung at Northerly Flora
As we speak, some of the 15,000 tulips planted behind Northerly Flora's 42nd Avenue studio are beginning to poke out of the soil.
🗓 Whenever Wherever: April events calendar
A roundup of hundreds of events in Longfellow this month.
🍀 March Whatevers: Monthly miscellanea
Heroic Goods is closing for happy reasons, lean times at Turquoise Vintage, Asian Duck reopens, mysterious lightpole art, and more.
🏘️ Push to rename Edmund Boulevard gaining momentum
The idyllic street is named for a land developer who pioneered the use of racially restrictive deeds in Minneapolis.
