Sacred Ground at

The Arts Chateau 321 W. Broadway, Butte, Montana

Butte is full of community garden spaces! Lot of empty lots await a steward ready to create a place of play or gardening, of peace and beauty. Our program seeks to set a template for such stewards to easily access their vision. Through seeking stewardship of an empty city owned lot just west of our current home, we seek to fortify our program with functional relationships with our own City Parks and Recreation, the Urban Renewal and Green-up Butte, Mainstreet Uptown Butte, and adjacent landowners. Our first project was a small endeavor just down from Montana Tech's entry on Park Street. This is Butte's first native garden, and Sacred Ground's first project. Stewardship was granted by George Everett and Mainstreet Butte. Catherine Cain, through her native plant business Southwest Montana Native Landscapes LLC and the funds of Mainstreet Butte, the Montana Tech Foundation, Culture Program and Faculty Union helped populate the site with a generous walk though the native landscape of the Rocky Mountains. We hope to add more plants this year and identifing labels. Special thanks to Catherine for her generous support, Noorjahan Parwana and Sherry Vogel for weeding companionship and design consulting!