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Support Missouri GOURDen, a community arts & gardening project at 48th & Troost in Kansas City MO. Garden with us or contribute to the virtual tip jar through paypal.me/studiomariaO or via Google Pay to studio.maria.O@gmail.com ~ thank you ! 

The “GOURDzebo” is located at 48th & Troost in Kansas City, Missouri. Looking for photos of Missouri GOURDen on social ?  #kcmoGOURDen Missouri GOURDen -  a.k.a. “the GOURDzebo” - is a project of the studio of artist Maria Ogedengbe.

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Autumn 2020: flowering beans and gourds atop the roof of Missouri GOURDen attract pollinators Support Missouri GOURDen, a community arts & gardening project at 48th & Troost in Kansas City MO. Garden with us or contribute to the virtual tip jar through paypal.me/studiomariaO or via Google Pay to studio.maria.O@gmail.com ~ thank you !   The “GOURDzebo” is located at 48th & Troost in Kansas City, Missouri. Looking for photos of Missouri GOURDen on social ?  #kcmoGOURDen Missouri GOURDen -  a.k.a. “the GOURDzebo” - is a project of the studio of artist Maria Ogedengbe.

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pictured: posters with an image of Missouri GOURDen “GOURDzebo” in late September, 2019

CLICK HERE to download a printable copy of this poster Missouri GOURDen is a community garden where we’ve been raising gourds up and over an artistic garden house with the goal of making shekere instruments from the gourds. All are welcome to visit !

Along with gourds we’ve raised other types of flowering vines, plus herbs, radishes, and a grassy plant that bears a naturally occurring bead that can be used, along with the dried gourds, for making shekeres. Missouri GOURDen is a project of the studio of Maria Ogedengbe.

Missouri GOURDen is sited at 48th & Troost by the Anita Gorman Discovery Center - a nature center offering free programming. An orchard planted by the Giving Grove is just behind the GOURDen. Pathways lead through the orchard, walkways extend around ponds, and disabled accessible nature trails with interpretive signage are just west of the Discovery Center.  

For more information: missouri.gourden@gmail.com, (347) 687-5247, missouri-gourden.tumblr.com The Missouri GOURDen project is partnered with Kansas City Community Gardens, and the project has received grants from ArtsKC & additional support from many others - thank you, all !

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CLICK HERE for a video showing Missouri GOURDen inside and out

Missouri GOURDen is a community garden where we're raising gourds up and over an artistic garden house with the goal of making shekere instruments from dried gourds. Currently we're gathering on 1st and 3rd Tuesdays at 5pm to garden, socialize, and share news of the garden. The project is partnered with Kansas City Community Gardens and an orchard planted by the Giving Grove is just behind the GOURDen.

Along with gourds, we're raising other types of flowering vines, herbs, radishes, and a grassy plant that bears a naturally occurring bead that can be used, along with the dried gourds, for making shekeres. Missouri GOURDen is a project of the studio of Maria Ogedengbe.

Missouri GOURDen is sited at 48th & Troost by the Anita Gorman Discovery Center - a nature center offering free programming that's open until 7pm on 1st and 3rd Tuesdays.

For more information: missouri.gourden@gmail.com, (347) 687-5247, http://missouri-gourden.tumblr.com

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pictured: photos from the GOURDen Party on 9/17/2019 CLICK HERE for a short video from the GOURDen Party We love the garden house with its ceiling of greenery & gourds + the blooms all over the roof each evening, yet the dearest aspect of this project is how it creates a meeting point for people who might not have otherwise crossed paths. Steve learned of the project through a flyer posted at the library and has been a devoted gardener at Missouri GOURDen for two seasons - he's also a musician and has led musical improvisation at the GOURDen on occasion. Blessing has been helping at the garden for about a year now. She and "Uncle" Steve thoroughly enjoyed themselves playing foosball, their laughter set the mood for the GOURDen Party !

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GOURDen Party ! #Tuesday 9/17/19, 5-7pm come for a slice of #cake & #enjoy the #garden before the growing season concludes + #piñata for the niños ! ( #free of charge ) Missouri GOURDen 48th & #Troost, #KCMO - by the Discovery Center all are #welcome

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pictured: Saturday painter & visitors at the GOURDen during the 2019 Brush Creek Art Walk CLICK HERE to see a panorama of artists at painting in the area There were quite a few artists painting the GOURDen - from inside and out, come to the Discovery Center in October to see an exhibit of plein air paintings produced during the art walk - the reception will be October 1st, 2019 from 5 to 8pm at the Anita B. Gorman Discovery Center at 4750 Troost, KCMO.

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pictured: the Missouri GOURDen “GOURDzebo” on September 6, 2019

CLICK HERE for a printable poster Missouri GOURDen is a community garden where we’re raising gourds up and over an artistic garden house with the goal of making shekere instruments from the gourds. All are welcome to visit and join in gardening. The project is partnered with Kansas City Community Gardens and an orchard planted by the Giving Grove is just behind the GOURDen.

Along with gourds, we’re raising other types of flowering vines, herbs, radishes, and a grassy plant that bears a naturally occurring bead that can be used, along with the dried gourds, for making shekeres. Missouri GOURDen is a project of the studio of Maria Ogedengbe.

Missouri GOURDen is sited at 48th & Troost by the Anita Gorman Discovery Center - a nature center offering free programming.

For more information: missouri.gourden@gmail.com, (347) 687-5247, missouri-gourden.tumblr.com The Missouri GOURDen project has received two grants from ArtsKC and additional support from many others - thank you, all !

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pictured: view up into the GOURDen on August 28, 2019

Missouri GOURDen is a community garden where we’re raising gourds up and over an artistic garden house with the goal of making shekere instruments from the gourds. All are welcome to visit and join in gardening. The project is partnered with Kansas City Community Gardens and an orchard planted by the Giving Grove is just behind the GOURDen. Along with gourds, we’re raising other types of flowering vines, herbs, radishes, and a grassy plant that bears a naturally occurring bead that can be used, along with the dried gourds, for making shekeres. Missouri GOURDen is a project of the studio of Maria Ogedengbe. The GOURDen is sited at 48th & Troost by the Anita Gorman Discovery Center - a nature center offering free programming. For more information: missouri.gourden@gmail.com, (347) 687-5247, missouri-gourden.tumblr.com The Missouri GOURDen project has received two grants from ArtsKC and additional support from many others - thank you, all !

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pictured: installation displayed in the Fine Arts Building at the 2019 Missouri State Fair, 32″ image printed on heavy Hahnemuhle paper and shekeres, all suspended from small wrought iron hooks - by Maria Ogedengbe

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CLICK HERE for a video showing how to weave a shekere

CLICK HERE to see the garden house weathering a storm on the longest day of 2019

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Missouri GOURDen, a community gourd garden for everyone ~ the “gourd-zebo” @ the SW corner of 48th & Troost, by the Discovery Center car and bike parking available at the Discovery Center, nearest bus stop: Cleaver & Troost

2019: making small shekeres (an instrument, made from a gourd, that resembles a rattle or tambourine)

Tuesdays, 6/25 or 7/2, at the garden, 5-7pm

·     teens ·     parent/adult + child (ages 6 and up) ·     adults/young adults

reserve your place now: (347) 687-5247 / Missouri.GOURDen@gmail.com

fee: $10 per shekere, collected on event day

or deduct $5 from the fee for each time you come and help us get ready to make shekeres ~ we’ll be getting ready on Tuesdays 6/11 and 6/18, 5-7pm

MUSICIANS: please inquire with us about making instruments with us and/or performing at the garden !

Missouri GOURDen is partnered with Kansas City Community Gardens, with support from ArtsKC #kcmoGOURDen

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CLICK HERE to see a panorama video of the Missouri GOURDen site CLICK HERE to see us out at the garden preparing for making shekeres

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2020: Missouri GOURDen, bearing fruit When we raised the trial gourd garden at Longfellow Farm in 2016, it seemed like the trellis was suddenly in bloom one Monday in July - so beautiful. And then the Cucumber beetles descended. From then on most blooms had been munched to nil by the time gardeners arrived any morning. The story was pretty much the same with Missouri GOURDen, sited in Kauffman Legacy Park, in the years that followed... So 2020 seemed like a good year for crop rotation, to take a break from raising gourds so the proliferating pests would die off. But when one unmistakable little Bottle gourd volunteer, “Gourdy,” showed its leaves we just had to let it grow. What’s a GOURDen without a gourd ?

Support Missouri GOURDen, a community arts & gardening project at 48th & Troost in Kansas City MO. Garden with us or contribute to the virtual tip jar through paypal.me/studiomariaO or via Google Pay to studio.maria.O@gmail.com ~ thank you !   The “GOURDzebo” is located at 48th & Troost in Kansas City, Missouri. Looking for photos of Missouri GOURDen on social ?  #kcmoGOURDen Missouri GOURDen is a project of the studio of artist Maria Ogedengbe.

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Autumn 2020: Missouri GOURDen turns out its purple... Purple hyacinth bean atop and the bushy New England aster to the side. At first the idea for 2020 was crop rotation, but when a volunteer Bottle gourd popped up we didn’t have the heart to weed it out. It’s quite amazing to see how far this one vine has traveled over the structure, and it’s still blooming into October. It has yielded four gourds which seems like few... In a crop rotation year the Cucumber beetle population is minimal - though these are our greatest pests they’re also pollinators ~ Support Missouri GOURDen, a community arts & gardening project at 48th & Troost in Kansas City MO. Garden with us or contribute to the virtual tip jar through paypal.me/studiomariaO or via Google Pay to studio.maria.O@gmail.com ~ thank you !   The “GOURDzebo” is located at 48th & Troost in Kansas City, Missouri. Looking for photos of Missouri GOURDen on social ?  #kcmoGOURDen Missouri GOURDen is a project of the studio of artist Maria Ogedengbe.

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2020, a quiet Summer: Missouri GOURDen is situated in Kauffman Legacy Park, behind the Kauffman Community Gardens orchard stretches south to Brush Creek. Beyond a series of raised garden beds to the west are trails around a pond, pavilion, and the nature sanctuary overseen by the Missouri Department of Conservation’s Discovery Center staff. The GOURDen and the park are an interesting crossroads, people from different walks of life pass through every day. It seems the pandemic has coaxed everyone out of doors and into nature - the park is a lively place where people garden, walk dogs, jog, or stroll with a friend or family. For most the park is a place for leisure. Yet the reality is that in hard times its remote corners probably serve as home for some, at least during the balmy summer. Missouri GOURDen’s three wide, open doors welcome visitors from all directions, from all walks of life. It’s an open meeting place in the out-of-doors. Support Missouri GOURDen, a community arts & gardening project at 48th & Troost in Kansas City MO. Garden with us or contribute to the virtual tip jar through paypal.me/studiomariaO or via Google Pay to studio.maria.O@gmail.com ~ thank you !   The “GOURDzebo” is located at 48th & Troost in Kansas City, Missouri. Looking for photos of Missouri GOURDen on social ?  #kcmoGOURDen Missouri GOURDen -  a.k.a. “the GOURDzebo” - is a project of the studio of artist Maria Ogedengbe.