Some of Our Traditions, New and Old
- Annual pancake breakfast
- Easter egg hunt
- May picnic at the community garden
- Progressive porch potluck
- Halloween parade
- Holiday caroling
- Miscellaneous: outdoor films, compost tour, women's book club, and more. We're always up for a new tradition
Community Garden
In
October 2009, a group of Radnor-Winston residents teamed up to break
ground on a
community garden, using water generously donated by our local Popeye's,
land owned by Loyola University Maryland and donated to the cause, as
well as our own
sweat equity. Since then, we've installed raised beds, added two new
beds dedicated to the CARES food pantry, put in raspberry and strawberry
patches, and set
up a three-tiered compost system with the help of some Americorps
volunteers. The garden has proved a grand success, yielding heaps of
fresh vegetables and
fruits for participating families, all while cultivating community,
sharing recipes and knowledge, and engendering a respect for
locally-grown food, including
among the next generation. In 2010, the garden was named "Best New
Garden" by Baltimore City Master Gardeners through the University of
Maryland Extension. If
you want to get involved, contact Jenny Kaurinki
(jennykaurinki@yahoo.com) or Ruth Henry (niceguys@jhu.edu) to see if
there is a slot available.
Our History
Radnor-Winston is one of a number of early suburban communities
developed along the York Road street car line in the early decades of
the 20th century,
built on land where there had previously been a number of large country
estates. Since 2003, Radnor-Winston is on the National Register of
Historic Places
and boasts a good mix of stand-alone houses and duplexes. Of the
approximately 250 homes in the neighborhood, most are frame bungalows
and four-squares
built in the 1920s, and many retain their charming cedar shingles and
Arts and Crafts detailing. Since 1958, the RWIA has been an active
volunteer
organization with a long history of activism on local issues of
concern.
To learn more about our neighborhood, please visit: www.livebaltimore.com
To learn more about our city, please visit: www.baltimore.org