Wildflowers and Litter Clean Up

After an already busy day, including fence and gate repair and Food Not Bombs, us Wingnuts set off to our corner store with shovels, rakes, trashbags, and wildflower seeds. Our street, Barton Avenue, has no trashcans, but a lot of people use it as the path to and from the North Avenue Market. So there is a bunch of trash. We’ve picked it up before, but this time we went to a further spot from our house, right next to the store. Basically, right where Barton/Dove/and North are located. We filled 2 giant bags with litter. Thanks to the folks at North Avenue Market for giving us a trashbag! Then we tilled up the dirt with shovels and planted some wildflower seeds. I hope they grow!

Earlier in the day we were picking up glass from the street in front of our house, and one of our other neighbors came out with a push broom to help us. That was awesome.

People keep trying to plant 40 Trees and Wild Irish Rose bushes on our street, but we think that sucks.

If we can’t get the city to put in trashcans we might try to fundraise to get some ourselves and chain them up along Barton Avenue.

And hopefully we wil be cleaning up the street on a more regular basis and gettin other folks involved.

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