The Village Community Garden & Learning Center (VCGLC)

Collaborators 

Lead Organization: Diversity Council

Contact: Amanda Nigon-Crowley ; Email: amandan@diversitycouncil.org ; Phone: 507.282.9951

Known/Likely Collaborators: Channel One Regional Food Bank ; City's Edge Farm ; Community Mobilization Resource Coalition (CMRC) ; Diversity Council ; Rochester Home Infusion ; University of Minnesota Extension ; University of Minnesota Rochester

Potential Collaborators: Alternative Learning Center ; Career and Technical Education Center (CTEH) ; Lotus Health Foundation ; Rochester Farmers Markets

Related Projects

America's City for Health ; Complete Health Improvement Program (CHIP) ; Food for Thought for Diversity Wellness ; Health Equity: Community Health Collaboration Portal ; Healthy Immigrant Families

Impacts 

Major Impact:  Food

PlanScape Impacts :

Level 1: Arts & Culture, CMRC, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Food, Health, Immigration, OpenBeam

Level 2: Family

DMC Impacts:

Community Health Impacts:

Type of Project

Programming  

With generous support from Rochester Home Infusion Founder, Joselyn Raymundo, acres for pristine farmland is being made available to Local Community Garden members to grow local and cultural-unique vegetables. This community garden will augment what is currently offered by Rochester Park and Recreation.  

Seeking land to grow food

Gardeners wanted. 

Home Ownership Creation Program - Prairie Ridge: "NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Common Council of the City of Rochester, MN hereby approves the contribution of $4,000,000 to the Prairie Ridge development to support the creation of 201 for-sale homes via the Home Ownership Creation Program.

 PB Reporting regarding TIF $14M Requests (Sherman and Prairie Ridge) 2024-12-14 

PB Reporting: Measuring the breadth of Mayo Clinic’s medical data abundance. 

Researchers beyond Mayo Clinic’s walls might make use of the Mayo Clinic Platform. Its data network, Connect, uses millions of de-identified patient records, test results, imaging, pathology reports and more from Mayo Clinic and seven other large health care systems across the world.

Press Release: Olmsted County residents encouraged to apply for Restorative Practices Advisory Committee (RPAC)

This new RPAC will bring together residents, justice system representatives, and community organizations to promote and sustain restorative practices throughout Olmsted County. 

Referendum to support: Strong Communities; Strong Schools; Strong Young People

PB Reporting on Referendum Efforts and Results

Love Wins: Community Empowerment Initiative

Free Workshop and Community Townhalls Press Release

Oct 2024 Reports

Reading Literacy Updates

Support for: Drug and Alcohol Response Team (DART), CredibleMind, "Be in the Know Olmsted" Campaign

September 2024 DMCC Board Meeting with 2025 Workplan Breakout

May 2024 DMCC Board Meeting and City, County, DMC Joint Meeting

Feb 2024 DMCC Board Meeting

November 2024 Selma Film and Discussions

2024 Recognition: $1K Scholarship: 2024 Rochester H.S. Graduate: Application and Nomination, Sponsorship and Donation support, Facebook photos of 2024 Mr. and Miss Juneteenth

C2C October 9, 2024 Summit

Presentation Slides  

Vision 2050 AI-Powered Interactive Survey LINK

Mayor Norton Memo to the Public

Results Based Accountability

Collective Impact: Spectrum of working together

Tech Support

The Early Childhood Resource Hub, a collaboration between C2C and IMAA, aims to connect Olmsted County families with young children to various resources and services.

City teammates providing an update on this work, specifically regarding legacy public infrastructure projects, Unbound, infrastructure investments and regulatory milestones.