Ignore the book thing but you don't want norwin if your kid is really into baseball and introverted. His spot is taken by the PAL field mafia lifers and teachers kids already.

Jeannette isn't bad it gets a bad rap from online people who have never known it because..sorry but because it's the 1 school out t here that isn't 95% white.
It's poor though and really small.

Yough is where I'd go in your situation tbh. Rural but close to that family in WM. Small but not so small they can't have teams.

Hey I use to smoke cigarettes in the alley.

Human poop was the least of your concerns.

We need to participate in the ones that exist that's a start.....

I'm totally down for food forests, edible stuff growing everywhere but I'm not sure we need more shade, here. We're not exactly in danger of desertification. I think the temperature difference is a poor argument for this area. Stick to the better selling points, like fruit, food and general air quality.

Alley next to 2nd Ave garage.

Edit: 6th Street garage next to alihans maybe the sketchy Greek joint if that's still there and between the pizza shop. Dunno why I had such a brain fart there

Hello! Let me introduce you to this incredible, new invention! I like to call it a Freezer!

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Agree. So many crops bioaccumulate the bad stuff. More people need to be cognizant of this. Do soil tests!!!!!

Southside has a community garden that’s open to all!

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True, but we should bring back cougars anyway.

Agreed. And anything other than trees for food...fruit bushes, etc. are much better bang for buck. Fruit trees get diseases easily.

Agreed. And anything other than trees for food...fruit bushes, etc. are much better bang for buck. Fruit trees get diseases easily

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Pretty sure coghill is a partner on that too and has actually been supportive/trying to do that as well

I live in the Greensburg Salem area and can say the school is pretty good. I went there as a kid but also have family in it, and worked as a substitute for a short while. The highschool staff are incredibly caring, in particular.

The elementary schools are split up by area. Nicely and Metzgar are both good, but the third is off. The middleschool is okay, the principal used to be the highschool's VP last I checked. I haven't talked to him in a few years but I do know he was very against bullying and was strict about it.

Tour the schools if you can.

The Garden of Eden was one and done unfortunately

I can imagine how polluted the soil is here, that’s sad.

Starting with season 2

A significant amount of the topsoil in this area is contaminated with lead among other things which is why generally home gardeners are advised to use raised flowerbeds. I'm all for trees, but unfortunately I think this is a dream that we're not eligible for. I suppose we could bring in soil and test but it raises the bar to start.

Trees yes, fruit trees no. Not only is urban farming terribly inefficient, and the fact that fruit trees need constant upkeep and a ton of times to produce any fruit at all, but they also attract animals. It's a much better use of resources to fund more local supermarkets to address food deserts, and plant more regular urban trees separate.

Yes!

We also have a lot of groundhogs, some turkeys, raccoons, and not sure what else and I don't exactly know who eats what other than deer, which will eat nearly anything!

Side note, I love watching the turkeys!!!

And, like any carefully thought out planting, plants would be picked with a variety of harvest times, so it wouldn't be a very limited time each year.

You make some valid points, but like most ideas that offer solutions to multiple problems, food forests are more helpful for some problems than others. The amount of edible produce available wouldn't solve a city's hunger problem, but it's better than a barren landscape that does nothing. As the article states "before the pandemic Dunbar Spring held annual community-wide milling events, in which pods harvested from the hundreds of mesquite trees in the neighborhood were ground into flour – giving them a year’s supply of flour."

More importantly, the neighborhood described benefited from a whopping 38 degree difference in temperature which is enough to justify the whole project IMO. And the plantings help absorb and mitigate storm run-off.

Don't worry. They arent gonna take me up on the offer.