Pierce Butler Meadow
Pierce Butler Meadow First planting at Pierce Butler Meadow Hamline Midway Coalition, community members and partner organizations are working together to transition the land within the cloverleaf intersection of Snelling Ave and Pierce Butler Route into a more natural habitat. The effort to create “Pierce Butler Meadow” has been in action since 2016. Snelling Ave […]
Bee Line Bonanza
Bee Line Bonanza: St. Paul’s Nature Quest Track, Snap, Share! In 2025, community stewards at Pierce Butler Meadow along the Bee Line are inviting neighbors from Midway, Frogtown, and Como to help document the nature that thrives around us. By logging observations of insects, plants, and animals on easy-to-use digital community science platforms, we can […]
Bee Line & Beyond
Bee Line & Beyond “Plants, Science – but Most of All, Joy” Matt Olson https://youtu.be/2qzIZzAPjGs?si=myYrR9u6lIwlLly9 Even in the heart of the city, surrounded by buildings and busy streets, the Midway community is rooted in nature. Whether we notice it or not, we are always in nature – and part of nature. It surrounds us, sustains […]
Adopt-a-Tree Program
Adopt-a-Tree Keep Midway Cool! Have you noticed that each passing summer is hotter and that both we and our shade trees suffer during long heat spells? This is an issue that you can help with! If you want the Hamline Midway neighborhood to have astrong, healthy shade trees that will keep our neighborhood cooler, then […]
Midway Tree Care Program
Midway Tree Care Program Tree removal and pruning program The Midway Tree Care Program is centered on creating a healthier, greener community by caring for our neighborhood’s existing tree canopy, especially in areas where it’s needed most. The vision of the program is to offer tree care services, particularly for neighbors in need, by providing […]
Midway Free Trees
Midway Free Trees Planting the Future of Hamline Midway — One Free Tree at a Time It’s HOT — and Getting Hotter! Have you noticed more hot days lately? You’re not imagining it. Rising temperatures are here to stay in the Midwest, and that means higher air conditioning bills, increased health risks, less walkable neighborhoods, […]
Community Canopy
Community Canopy Care Support for Planting, Maintaining, and Protecting Midway’s Urban Forest The Hamline Midway Coalition and its Environment Committee (HMEC) are deeply committed to growing and protecting our community’s tree canopy — because a healthy, thriving canopy is one of the best ways we can care for each other, especially as we face the […]
Salt and Snow
Deicing salt is often over applied, with 365,000 tons of road salt applied in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area (TCMA) alone each year. It is vital to our transportation and infrastructure that we have safe roads, however we also know that chloride salt is not a sustainable solution as it wears on our infrastructure every winter
Stabilize Snelling & University
Hamline Midway Coalition: Stabilize Snelling & University Campaign Having Trouble? Click here to read the proposal in Google Drive
Midway to Mississippi
Midway to Mississippi Clean up leaf litter on the curb to protect the Mississippi River from pollution! Sign Up to participate in Midway to Mississippi Hamline Midway Coalition has teamed up with Capitol Region Watershed for the Midway To Mississippi environmental initiative. Midway to the Mississippi is a simple yet effective initiative aimed at preventing […]