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About Us
Soo Line Community Garden is a park that started as an inspiration from neighbors who saw an empty, tax-forfeited lot filled with litter as the future location for a community garden. In 1991, the neighbors with help from the Sustainable Resource Center and other donations were able to establish the Soo Line Community Garden.
The garden has established a beautiful front garden, new flowers and plants added to the Moen memorial, and the establishment of a children’s garden.
Since 1991, the park has grown from a small group of volunteers to over 200 people from all over the world who donate a small fee to have a 10 x 12-foot plot. In 2010, Soo Line became an official neighborhood park in the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board.
The garden has benches, a picnic table, and areas for the public to read, eat, meditate and meet friends. It is a space dedicated to community.
Soo Line also serves as a place of recreation, education and youth programming for the Whittier neighborhood and the Whittier Elementary School.
