Our Mission

​To support Flint residents in growing and accessing healthy food in order to reconnect with the land and each other.

Volunteer with Edible Flint for Distribution Day! ​

Edible Flint is looking for some dedicated volunteers to help with our Distribution Day on June 6th from 8am-7pm.  To learn more and sign up, please click here.  This will take you to a Google Form and a description of the day.  Shifts are available for 2 hours or more.


****As of now, Thursday May 28th at 5pm, orders of kits for 2020 is now closed. Thank you for your interest! 


DISTRIBUTION DAY: JUNE 6TH 
Instructions for picking up garden kits and compost


Dear Edible Flint Garden Starter buyer,
 
This outlines the process Edible Flint will use on Saturday June 6th for you to get your garden kit, compost, or hose filter.  We have developed this process to limit contact as much as possible and every effort is being made to get you what you’ve purchased as safely as possible. Thank you for your patience.
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Here are some things to keep in mind to make the whole process go as smoothly as possible although you should prepare to wait in your car to receive your items: 
  • Please read all of these instructions. Thank you.
  • You should prepare your vehicle so that there is room for all your items.  The plants (a flat of plants will need some clearance), seeds, hose filter, and bags of compost you’ve ordered.  Please have your trunk or cargo space as clear as possible. Compost will be loaded first.
  • You will open your cargo area and volunteers will load items into your vehicle. This is particularly important if you’ve ordered compost. Bags of compost are 30 pounds and require space. 
  • Volunteers and signs will direct you where to drive to get to the Neighborhood Engagement Hub (NEH) at 3216 Martin Luther King Avenue, Flint, 48505. 
    • Vehicles will be directed to head east onto East Pasadena from the corner of MLK Avenue and turn onto a short street called Essex then onto East Dewey.
    • From there you will be directed to enter NEH’s parking lot from the north.
    • You will be asked to open your trunk/cargo area/truck bed for volunteers.
  • Please be patient with our volunteers and helpers as we do our best to serve you.  All volunteers will be wearing masks and washing/sanitizing hands regularly.  If you are medically able, we request that you also wear a mask.
All orders will be picked up based on the last name of the order between Noon and 6pm on June 6th.  Orders are divided by the last name on the order. If you cannot make the time that matches your last name, please come between 5:00pm and 6:00pm.
 
Time
Last Name Group
12:00pm-1:00pm                A-C
1:00pm-2:00pm                 D-G
2:00pm-3:00pm                H-L
3:00pm-4:00pm                M-P
4:00pm-5:00pm                Q-T
5:00pm-6:00pm               U-Z and late pickups

If you have questions, you can reach out to Julie at 810-922-6483, Jane at 810-348-5332, or Ge’Von at 313-655-5618.

Mail applicaitons to Edible Flint,  P.O. Box 45,   Flint, Michigan 48501

Thank you for joining us for the 11th Annual Garden Tour!

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Thank you to all of us who joined us at the 11th Annual Garden Tour Wednesday July 31st featured a bus or bicycle tour of garden sites in our community. 


Garden Tour Registration is now open online - follow this link. 

To donate in support of the Annual Food Garden Tour Fundraiser, follow this link.

edible flint is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit org., EIN #45-4356342.  Your gift is tax-deductible as allowed by law.

Water Hose Filters now Available - limited quantity

Soil testing - Is through MSU Extension website. Please contact us at info@edibleflint.org or call 810-244-8530 for more information. 
Now Back in Stock- Garden Hose Water Filters- available while supplies last

Summary of 10 years of Impact in Flint through our work

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For the past 10 growing seasons, beginning in 2009, edible flint has worked to support Flint residents in growing and accessing healthy food, in order to connect them with the land and each other.  This report gathers information from the people we have served and is an effort to tell you a story about how we have worked together to help Flint grow!  Thank you all for your support of us as an organization and for continuing to support the work that we do.  

To download a digital copy of the report, click on the picture of the report cover on the right. We can also make printed copies available if you would like one please reach out to us for more information. 

The work we do cannot be done alone.  Thank you for giving us rich soil in which we can cultivate community improvement.  

2019 Food Garden Tour - July 31, 2019

Become a 2020 Sponsor Today! 
edible flint is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, EIN # 45-4356342.  Your gift is tax-deductible as allowed by law

News

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


​Donate 
Your donation to edible flint goes to support programming as well as edible flint outreach and marketing efforts.  You may donate to a specific program, work group or to our general fund.  
edible flint is a tax-exempt  501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, EIN # 45-4356342.  Your gift is tax-deductible as allowed by law
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