Southside Blooms
Southside Blooms is a farm-to-vase florist on the Southside of Chicago, providing unique and fashion-forward arrangements, while maintaining an uncompromising dedication to both the environment and our surrounding communities. Flowers are grown in environments which actively work to sequester carbon, not just reduce emissions. Every flower purchased from Southside Blooms creates jobs for at-risk youth,…
Read MorePlaygrounds for Useful Knowledge
Playgrounds for Useful Knowledge was a temporary installation on a vacant lot in South Philly which served as a platform to share collective and individual knowledge. LandHealth Institute was invited to collaborate with Restored Spaces and CohStra to re-envision and reuse litter and debris on the lot as cultural artifacts, design features, and educational tools…
Read MoreNative Plant Nursery
A native plant nursery sits on previously vacant land in the Parkside neighborhood in the heart of West Philadelphia. LandHealth cultivates species variations specific to the local ecosystem, to support land health across our neighborhoods and region. Native plants create functional and beautiful landscapes that require less maintenance than traditional gardens. More about this project >
Read MoreMeditation Labyrinth
This project will create an intergenerational open space for art and creativity. Community arts outreach will be paired with a walking path made out of personalized clay pavers and chalkboard walls made from recycled wood pallets and natural seating. More about this project >
Read MoreLafayette Greens
Lafayette Greens is a green space and urban garden in the heart of downtown Detroit, next door to the famous Coney Islands and across the street from the fabulous Westin Book Cadillac Hotel. Visitors, city workers, and neighborhood residents enjoy and relax in the space, watch veggies and flowers grow during the summer and enjoy…
Read MoreGreen Saginaw
Green Saginaw is SLBC’s next generation of work in this community in partnership with the Saginaw County Land Bank and the City of Saginaw helping to address non-structural blight and vacant property conditions. Green Saginaw builds on a previous, 5-year investment called the Pollinator Project which worked to replace vacant, blighted properties with more manageable wildflower prairie…
Read MoreGladwyne Jewish Memorial Cemetery
Forgotten for over half a century, this historic cemetery-turned-forest has become a stunning landscape. Just barely escaping development on a number of occasions, the cemetery has been taken over by the Friends of the Gladwyne Jewish Memorial Cemetery, who hired LandHealth Institute to create a master plan for the cemetery’s future. The plan examines strategies…
Read MoreEmlen School
LandHealth Institute designed and coordinated the installation of a natural playscape and outdoor classroom area in Emlen’s schoolyard – once a shadeless expanse of asphalt. This new amenity acts as an outdoor classroom as well as a creative playscape. This project showcases what can be accomplished with a budget of $5,000 and a dedicated team…
Read MoreBryn Anthyn Meadow
Bryn Athyn College, a small liberal arts college, features a ten-acre meadow that had little species diversity and was inaccessible to students. LandHealth reimagined the meadow and rain garden as vibrant amenities in an effort to increase biodiversity and increase its educational value for the campus, transforming the space into a diverse bog garden. More about…
Read MoreMaggie Walker Community Land Trust
Maggie Walker Community Land Trust is working to guarantee perpetual affordability by placing vacant properties that have been developed for residential use into a ground lease program. Pictured here is a new, affordable single-family home that was built on an empty lot.
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