Order Forms Released March 1 Edible Flint has planned with your favorite growers at Walker’s Farms, Wojo’s, and Mary Sam’s and this week 26,430 seeds began to be the transplants that will be ready for Flint area gardeners on May 18th! AND nearly $1,000 of seeds...
May 18th – the day to pick up your Kitchen Garden Kit or Greens kit, or Herbs… and pollinators! Transplants and seeds – and umpteen ideas are flying now… and we will order for about 400 gardens in January! Got ideas, requests, advice? Call 810 348-5332 and give us...
Visit garden projects by bus or bike. Register at the Farmers’ Market, for 4 p.m. departure. The Food Garden Tour celebrates the hard work and success of food gardeners all over Flint, including the Edible Flint Educational Farm located on Beach Street, which...
Thunderfoot Farm is a small but mighty 28 acre "Mixed Powered" farm located in beautiful southwestern Michigan. What is a “Mixed-Powered” farm? This means that while we use both the conventional power tractor/rototiller to terminate our cover crops and perform any...
The Name Seems Too Simple for what Edible Flint DOES! The long planned annual event took place on May 20 in the parking lot of the Neighborhood Engagement Hub. Distribution Day is one of huge visible steps in Edible Flint’s goal of enabling families to grow the...
The Neighborhood Engagement Hub works with neighborhood organizations and residents across Flint to improve our community and quality of life through blight elimination, community and neighborhood development, as well as education and advocacy. With that in mind......
Purchase by the kit or many kits. What’s a KIT? Each kit has a focus to fit your space, your choices of vegetables, the way you cook and season….designed by Flint gardeners – and results of what more than 100 people told us! A Kitchen Garden Kit has 19 transplants...
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...
Michigan State University Extension believes in improving people’s lives through education, and has been helping Genesee County residents for over 100 years. The most famous programs include 4-H and Master Gardener. 4-H is the largest youth-serving organization...
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...
King Avenue PLUS invites you to plan your garden, or your front steps, or your flower beds to choose vegetables and to get great ideas. TWO days for this “work.” On June 10th, vegetables and flowers will be for sale on East McClellan just off Martin Luther King...
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...
King Avenue PLUS invites you to plan your garden, or your front steps, or your flower beds to choose vegetables and to get great ideas. TWO days for this “work.” On June 10th, vegetables and flowers will be for sale on East McClellan just off Martin Luther King...
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...
The answer is “yes” with a qualifier. In Michigan, particularly in the Flint Area, we are considered to be in Zone 6 when it comes to planting. Generally, we can expect somewhat mild temperatures with the possibility of a late frost which is optimal for most (but...
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...
What would March be like (Yes, I know this is the April edition) without a story about hoops? (Stay with me here…) But I’m not talking about basketball. I’m talking about hoop houses! You’ve seen them all over town. Perhaps a neighbor has one and you thought how...
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...
