2018 Food Garden Tour July 25, 2018

Join edible flint July 25, 2018 as we celebrate our 10th Annual Food Garden Tour!

10 years of growing food. 10 years of being inspired by local gardeners. 10 years of celebrating together all that Flint and Genesee County gardens have to offer.   We can not wait to celebrate this very special garden tour with all of you.

Now taking memories and nominations at foodgardentour@edibleflint.org or tag us on social medial @edibleflint, #edibleflint or click the link below

Garden Nomination

News

Check out edible flint in the news!

edible flint is in the fall 2017 edition of edibleWOW magazine.

Michigan Agriculture Magazine Article on edible flint

Fox 66 Profitt Report: What Flint gardeners should know about lead safety

 Fox 66 Profitt Report: the economics of starting your backyard garden

WNEM Channel 5 Program teaches positive impact of gardening

Taste the Local Difference Guide Community Spotlight Article

Detroit 910AM Radio Superstation Angela Moore interviews Deb Hamilton of edible flint

Can I Still Garden?

Percentage of Gardens that are safe for Food Production

edible flint Garden Starters Program-
​soil lead testing

• Within the City of Flint
• 7 yrs of data/459 gardens from 2011-2017
• Most of the lead levels are well below 300 ppm, <10% elevated

Graph courtesy of Richard Sadler, PHD, Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine/Division of Public Health, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University

Lead in Urban Soil, How Flint Compares

Lead Safety in the Garden

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