Category Archives: gardens

Enter the South Side Slopes Flower Contest and Showcase Your Green Thumb!

Do you love to garden? Are you excited to show off your green thumb this year? Then enter the South Side Slopes Flower Contest, open to all Slopes residents! Focusing on the front-facing façade of your home, we will have … Continue reading

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Love Your Block: Volunteer Day at Mission & Barry Streets is Oct. 15

On Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. we need a bit of your elbow grease to help beautify the hillside at the corner of Barry & Mission Streets. Through the City of Pittsburgh, the South Side Slopes Neighborhood Association … Continue reading

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Sprouting Sarah – A Garden Party

Please join us (rain or shine) for a community gathering at a private and extraordinary garden in our South Side neighborhood for an afternoon of socialization, wine, hors d’oeuvres, and chamber music to benefit the progress being made to improve … Continue reading

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South Side Slopes Year in Review 2014

What an exciting year for the South Side Slopes! Here are some highlights from 2014: January: We welcomed in Bruce Kraus as President of City Council and Bill Peduto as Mayor of Pittsburgh. February: First General Meeting of the year March: … Continue reading

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Special Thanks to our South Side Slopes Veterans

Did you know there are multiple war memorials on the South Side Slopes? Along 103-105 Pius Street, you can see the “All Wars Memorial”. This memorial was restored with an Elm Street grant in 2007 with new landscaping, sidewalk, fencing, … Continue reading

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South Side Community Garden Planted

Congratulations to all of the new South Side gardeners. Saturday June 2 was the official planting day at the Bandi Schaum Community Garden in South Side Park. Here are the results of our community labor: Now, we just have to … Continue reading

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South Side Community Garden Success

This Saturday May 5, a lot of volunteers put in a lot of work to prepare the South Side Community Garden for planting. Thanks to everyone who came out and helped. Hope to see all of you and more back … Continue reading

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MINI GARDEN PRIMER

South Side Community Council and the South Side Slopes Neighborhood Association invite you to a Grow Pittsburgh Education Session: MINI GARDEN PRIMER. Monday, February 27th at the Brashear Association from 6pm to 8pm. “Don’t know the first thing about vegetable … Continue reading

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Greeley Street Garden Planting

Come join us plant the neighborhood garden at the corner of Josephine and Greeley Streets. All plants and tools will be provided.

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Garden Planting!

Mark your calendar’s now! SSSNA’s two Western Pennsylvania Conservancy gardens will be planted in May. We need all of the volunteers that we can get. Josephine and Barry Street Garden Saturday, May 12th then Josephine and Greeley Street Garden Saturday, … Continue reading

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