This paper continues to be a community paper…. remembering beginnings: Before there was a FLINT: Our Community, Our Voice, a back room of Neighborhood Engagement Hub (it was still Salem Housing then), sometime in 2010, 2011, a variety of folks busy in Flint-that...
From the Richardson Kitchen (makes about 2 ½ dozen bars) (11 x 7 pan) Ingredients: 1 cup flour 1/3 cup butter or margarine 2 T. confectioners’ sugar 2 eggs, beaten ¾ cup brown sugar ¾ cup flaked coconut 1 cup chopped walnuts ¼ cup flour ¼ tsp baking powder ½ tsp...
From the Richardson Kitchen Ingredients: 1 cup butter or margarine, softened 1 cup brown sugar (packed) 1 egg yolk 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 cups all-purpose flour ¼ teaspoon salt 4 bars (7/8 ounce each) milk chocolate candy bars ½ cup chopped nuts Directions: Heat oven...
King Avenue PLUS hosted a multi-faceted event on a beautiful Saturday in the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace Garden. This day recognized those whose energy and support have made the transformation of abandoned lots possible. (56 thank you certificates to...
A team of 8 youths and their leader from several different congregations in the Lansing Diocese of the Catholic Church joined Meekins Gardens' work team for about 5 hours to make huge changes on these 10 lots originally developed by Carolyn Meekins and her youth...
Edible Flint & Dozens of Volunteers The Greater Flint Community Will Grow! More than 300 folks planning their gardens drove through Neighborhood Engagement Hub’s parking lot to have Edible Flint volunteers place wonderfully “growing” vegetable transplants into...
Photos by Kristen Williams (in Kristen’s own garden) Sunlight... and powerful to walk out the door and pick enough collards and tomatoes for supper! For many city folks, we think about the huge gardens that our grandparents grew (and we weeded) and wonder if we can...
League of Women Voters of the Flint Area and a New Service - Information for YOU and from YOU The League of Women Voters* is non- partisan and committed to information available to all voters and they are concerned that many of us are not voting, thus not shaping...
So is Edible Flint’s Garden Starters Work Group, and we want to share an advance notice with you about some super new choices for your 2022 Garden. Gardener surveys offered many great ideas and requests. Throughout the fall and winter, the Work Group designed and...
Company coming for the holidays? In a hurry to get to the store? Picking up the kids or Grandma at their friends? AND it is not simple... or familiar as the CLOSED... DETOUR... signs “grow” everywhere, change in a moment… and maybe were left behind... and perhaps...
The Flint Public Library will be brand new within the footprint of its historical strong building! So much is exciting about this “forever” space that we will begin to share with you right now! Here is what we learned this month. Attention to history and important...
Have you seen a car driving slowly down your street and stopping in front of every house and every vacant lot taking a photo with a large flat tablet? What’s that all about? Every two years each parcel in Flint is photographed and its condition evaluated. Soon you...
On May 15, Edible Flint volunteers distributed 449 garden kits to members of the community at the Neighborhood Engagement Hub in Flint. The Garden Starters Kits have been sold for more than 10 years to support gardens in Flint and the surrounding area. These kits...
Edible Flint has ordered Walker Farms and Wojo’s Greenhouse to start your vegetables and herbs for a May 15th pick up day for you! LatinX has planted peppers to add to our cooking and eating choices. This year the garden kits include 9 different vegetables and...
Dozens of people have stood and thought, reacted, and often been photographed at this mural in this month. Artist Kevin Burdick with the Flint Public Art Project prepared a larger-than-life mural based on a photograph taken during the Selma to Montgomery March in...
