Chateau Hough’s First Annual Fundraiser: Stabilizing At-Risk Youth with Jobs
Please join us at the Vineyard of Château Hough on Tuesday, August 9, 2016 from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT) and listen to members of The Cleveland Orchestra, while sketching with artists from The Cleveland Museum of Art at our First Annual Fundraiser. Click on flyers below for details. For “Fundraiser” ticket(s) click “Donate”...
Read MoreWorlds first biocellar could be the start of the urban renewal Cleveland needs
worlds first biocellar 6 28 2016 world zebra b By CAROLINE ROLF June 28, 2016 The Plaid Zebra When race riots broke out across America in the 1960s, they resulted in disturbing violence and devastating loss of life and property. In Cleveland, Ohio, these riots aggravated the job losses and hardships due to the shrinking of its once powerful industrial sector. It wasn’t until the late 1990s that the city began to rebuild. Driving through the neighbourhood of Hough today, you can still see some of the 100-plus-year-old homes crumbling and vacant—an eerie reminder of the past. But when...
Read MoreFrom Severance Hall to Hough — The Cleveland Orchestra Visits Its Neighbors
From Severance Hall to Hough idea stream 5 2 2016 By David C. Barnett Sunday, May 1, 2016 ideastream The Cleveland Orchestra will step outside the confines of Severance Hall and spend several weeks doing outreach activities in the city’s Hough community, this summer. The Orchestra will partner with the Cleveland Museum of Art for its “At Home Residency” in Hough, which sits within a few blocks of both institutions. A variety of music and visual art activities are scheduled to take place from June up through a free community concert in August....
Read MoreResilient Midwestern Cities: Improving Equity in a Changing Climate
By Cathleen Kelly, et. al., April 2016 Center for American Progress …The Urban Agriculture Innovation Zone in the Kinsman neighborhood, for example, has created an inner-city agricultural district from more than 20 acres of previously vacant land.73 Within this district are initiatives including Kinsman Farm, an incubator farm that provides land to gardeners learning to farm at scale, and the Rid-All Green Partnership, an urban farm with an education program that produces vegetables and tilapia.74 Chateau Hough, named for the Hough neighborhood, is an inner-city vineyard with nearly...
Read MoreChateau Hough: The World’s First BioCellar
By Kate Herrmann, March/April Issue 2016 Conscious:Company Magazine When race riots swept through the country in the mid-1960s, the Hough neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio, experienced some of the most devastating violence, resulting in a tragic loss of life and property. These events exacerbated the already-heightened divestment and job loss that was affecting the Rust Belt, and it wasn’t until the late 1990s that the neighborhood began to slowly bounce back. Today, entrepreneurs and “urban pioneers” are starting to move into previously vacant and abandoned properties, playing a key...
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