2023 West Hill Spring Fling

Saturday, June 3 11:30am – 2:30pm
Gypsy Grace and the Vintage Goat & Leaf Home and Blooms
451 West Market Street
Akron, Ohio

How does your garden grow?
Whether it’s a cactus on your windowsill, a vegetable garden in your backyard, or a few potted flowers on your porch, spring is the time to share the magic of growing things with friends and neighbors.
Come celebrate the start of the growing season at the West Hill Spring Fling – a community celebration of gardening in the city!
Bring plants to share and swap with neighbors;
Plant and take home your own mini vegetable container garden;
Get house plant advice from the Leaf Home and Blooms Plant Doctor;
Drink magical blooming flower tea at the Gypsy Grace tea room;
Learn about composting with Rubber City Reuse;
Performance by the Black Beanz, Ohio’s award-winning premiere African dance troupe;
Garden raffle prizes and games;
Local ice cream, cookies, coffee, and more!
Details:
Plant Pot-Luck – Please drop off plants by 12pm
Are you an experienced outdoor gardener or houseplant parent with plants to share and swap? Are you just starting out and looking for plants? Then the plant potluck is for you! If you have them, please bring plants to share, but like any good potluck, no one goes away hungry.
Let’s Grow Akron and WHNO Container Garden Workshop
You don’t need a lot of space or fancy pots to grow your own vegetables. Join Let’s Grow Akron and the West Hill Neighborhood Organization for a container gardening workshop reusing containers that would have ended up in a landfill. Learn how to create the right soil mix for growing vegetables in containers and how to care for your mini-vegetable garden. The first 50 people will get to take home their very own vegetable container garden.
Leaf Home and Blooms Plant Doctor
Do you think you have a black thumb or are just one of those people who can’t keep houseplants alive? Want to grab some houseplants at the Plant Potluck, but aren’t sure what to do next? Then it’s time to visit the plant doctors from Leaf Home and Blooms. They’ll show you how to care for your new houseplants or bring sick plants back to good health.
Gypsy Grace & the Vintage Goat Crystal Garden and Tea Room
Let the experts at Gypsy Grace & the Vintage Goat help you choose crystals to amp up the magical energies of your new plants. Then sample blooming flower teas from their unique selection of teas you won’t find anywhere else in Akron.
Rubber City Reuse Compost Corner
Rubber City Reuse will be on hand to share with us the importance of composting. But don’t worry, if you don’t have space for an outdoor compost pile, you can still be part of diverting thousands of pounds of food waste from landfills. Rubber City Reuse picks up food scraps from people all over the city and turns them into nutrient rich compost that goes back into our gardens.
As part of a new partnership, West Hill residents can receive a free compost bucket to save scraps for our new Rubber City Reuse neighborhood compost drop-off site.
Shanti Community Farms
Shanti Community Farms, an educational urban farm project that builds community and trains new Americans to participate in the local food movement, are giving away free bean seeds and leading games for kids.
Performance by the Black Beanz
Fresh from winning an audition at the World of Dance competition in Los Angeles, the Black Beanz, Akron’s premiere African dance company, will perform at the Spring Fling.
Garden Raffle – WINNERS CHOSEN AT 2pm
Come by the West Hill Neighborhood Organization welcome tent and purchase raffle tickets to win garden themed prizes.