Jane Richardson

Community InfoMarch 2023
FOCOV Beginnings
Beginnings

Beginnings

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...

December 2022Recipes
Lemon Sour Bars
Lemon Sour Bars

Lemon Sour Bars

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...

December 2022Recipes
Toffee Bars
Toffee Bars

Toffee Bars

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...

August 2022Community InfoGardeningRecognition
Making Change – Lansing Catholic Diocese Youth in the Meekins’ Gardens
Making Change – Lansing Catholic Diocese Youth in the Meekins’ Gardens

Making Change – Lansing Catholic Diocese Youth in the Meekins’ Gardens

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...

GardeningMay 2022
A Kitchen Garden
A Kitchen Garden

A Kitchen Garden

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...

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