Save the Dates!
Upcoming Events with Growing Hope
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Downtown Ypsilanti
Farmers' Market
Opens this Tuesday! |
Come celebrate opening day of the Downtown Ypsilanti Farmers' Market this Tuesday, May 5th, Cinco de Mayo, from 2-6 pm! Pilar's Tamales is joining us, helping to bring in the festive holiday! Let's celebrate these first veggies and fruits of the season with those who grow  them. Many spring herbs
and produce from our vendors will be available, creating great
possibilities for Mexican (or other!) celebration dishes. Free seed
packets with growing
instructions will be handed out to EBT users,
along with great re-usable token bags, also available for purchase
for non-EBT users.
The Downtown Ypsi Farmers' Market is
excited to welcome the Erickson Elementary choir at 5pm on opening day,
and Black Train, a local Ann Arbor roots band from 2-5pm. It's looking
to be a delicious time of good food, folks, and businesses! Come
celebrate all things local with us on Cinco de Mayo at the Downtown
Ypsilanti Farmers' Market!
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WANTED: Drills, Yard Signs, and a Mechanic!
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Are you handy with vehicles? Growing Hope needs someone to take a look at the beater truck we use for Farmers' Market, compost hauling, and more. We'll pay for any parts, and would like someone to start with a diagnosis of the most important things to fix this spring. Can you look under the hood for us?
We're also in need of new-condition drills (corded or cordless) and recycled yard signs (think polictical campaigns of old) that we'll repurpose into farmers market signs.
Let us know if you can help at info@growinghope.net.
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Growing Hope Partner Garden Feature: Chidester Place Rocks! |
 Chidester Place in Ypsilanti offers affordable
housing for low income residents of a wide range of abilities. They
also have a rockin' community garden! Chidester
residents have worked hard to organize what turned out to be a very
productive and successful garden last year. Growing Hope is looking
for volunteers to join us this year to repair raised beds, transport
handicap accessible beds and transport and distribute compost. Our
wish list includes a volunteer with a truck to help with
transportation. The first official work day is Friday, May 15th from
1PM-4PM. Email ashley@growinghope.net or call to sign up!  | |
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Growing Hope's 5th Annual Plant Sale
This Friday and Saturday!
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 Join us rain or shine this Friday and Saturday for our Spring Plant Sale, and get your raised beds, seedlings, edible container
planters, herbs, youth-made hand-balm, and more! The sale will be held at the Growing Hope Center Friday, May 1 from 3-7 pm and Saturday, May 2 from 9 am-3 pm. Check out the new Spring Catalog, and get your pre-orders in, which will be ready for pick-up at the Plant Sale!
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Faith & Food Initiative is Underway
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Saline,
Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor, S. Lyon and Chelsea, they are busy planting
potatoes, peas, carrots, cauliflower, cabbage, collards and broccoli.
Soon, they will be adding green beans, Roma tomatoes, cantaloupe,
peppers and winter squash. Through intentional
donations, Food Gatherers can use your produce more efficiently. Want to
help? There's still time! Plant these items at home and collect them
as a group for donation. For more information, please contact
Merilynne Rush at faithandfood@growinghope.net
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Free Native Grasses
Stop by the Perry Learning Garden today!
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Growing Hope is excited to be converting the Perry Learning Garden to a donation garden for Food Gatherers this year! Our former Native Prarie needs to be uprooted, and we are offering these beautiful grasses up for donation! Planted in summer of 2000 with seeds collected locally
and sprouted by the Native Plant Nursery, the native prairie is well established and
includes grasses and wildflowers native (indigenous) to Washtenaw
County. A great attractor of butterflies, birds, and other insects, the
prairie grows up to 8 feet tall in summer time.  If you interested providing a new home for any of the grasses, please contact ashley@growinghope.net.  |
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Can You Support Us This Spring?
Donate to Growing Hope Online
or Join our Facebook cause!
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 Join the Growing Hope cause on Facebook, where you can see event updates and invite your friends to join!
If you support our work and want it to continue, please consider make an online donation through our website! | |
In gratitude & hope--
The Growing Hope Team
Amanda, Karen, Meg, Dan, Sarah, Ashley, Kelly, Roy, Ryan, Terry Liz, Merilynne, & the GH Board of Directors
Growing Hope is a 501c3 nonprofit in Washtenaw County dedicated to helping people improve their lives & communities through gardening. We hope you'll join our efforts.
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