Urban Gardens

Kettering Health Dayton established the Unity Garden on Neal Avenue three years ago to help address the area's food desert.

The community garden donated 4,214 pounds of fresh produce to Second Harvest Food Bank to alleviate hunger in Champaign, Clark and Logan counties.

Sinclair Community College is working with the University of Dayton's Flyer Farm as an experiential learning project for English as a second language students.

Miami University will close its exhibition of Culture Crops on June 13 before it reopens at Northern Kentucky University in October.

The Jefferson Street Oasis Community Garden took heavy damage in July after teens from the community in Springfield broke in. Garden members worked to turn the incident into a learning experience for them.

The Huffman Historic District is one mile east of downtown Dayton, comprised of historic Victorian and Queen Anne style homes. Now, the neighborhood is working to build an urban homesteading community.

An OSU Extension educator will help Dayton-area gardeners learn about soil health and amendment, heavy metals in your yard, and more, at the upcoming Five Rivers MetroParks Small Farm and Food Fest on Aug. 2.

Ohio farmer, Bryna Chandler, is an expert in preserving and using root vegetables months and years after harvest. Now, she's sharing her knowledge.

Betty Hoevel is an education coordinator with Five Rivers MetroParks who explained to WYSO how to stretch your summer garden harvest.

Five Rivers MetroParks is working with The Foodbank Inc to offer garden kits with seeds and starter plants at mobile distributions this spring.

Over the summer 20 students participated in the pilot program. UD's Hanley Sustainability Institute provided students with 238 pounds of produce, grown and processed at the campus garden.

Homesteading grew in popularity during the pandemic. Now, some homesteaders in Dayton are continuing to thrive off of their own land.