2020 Annual Meeting RECORDING now available!
Please watch our recorded annual meeting where we:
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- heard from speakers about resilience, the food system and the Flint community
- reviewed accomplishments from 2019 and 2020,
- selected new members of the Leadership Board, and
- affirmed our commitment to the mission.
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Thank you for making DISTRIBUTION DAY 2020 a huge success!!!
To all our 2020 Gardeners!!
We want to THANK YOU for being part of one of our largest distribution day events ever! Thank you for making our limited-contact pick-up process successful – you are part of our more than 300 gardeners who are growing plants with us this year. We had over 50 volunteers help us before and during the event with seed sorting, communications, planning, kit assembly, sanitizing, directing traffic, and everything that happened on Saturday!
You may have received a few more plants and different varieties than you were expecting - we realized late that we had more broccoli and collard greens and you may have gotten fewer slicing tomatoes than were promised. We apologize for that and hope you will enjoy a bountiful garden this year.
We also know that many of you are first-time gardeners and we want to encourage you to engage with Edible Flint beyond this one transaction. We encourage you to check back in with us and share photos, questions, recipes, trouble and triumph to create a supportive network of gardens all over Flint and Genesee County. We will share what we know and learn from gardeners and growers in our community about tending, dealing with pests, and harvesting!
We are going to try to do our first ever virtual garden tour this summer and invite our entire community to share in your success – all gardens are welcome to participate – whether at your home, in your neighborhood, church or other groups. Please visit our website, follow us on social media – on Facebook, on Instagram, and on Twitter -- check out the links above.
We want to THANK YOU for being part of one of our largest distribution day events ever! Thank you for making our limited-contact pick-up process successful – you are part of our more than 300 gardeners who are growing plants with us this year. We had over 50 volunteers help us before and during the event with seed sorting, communications, planning, kit assembly, sanitizing, directing traffic, and everything that happened on Saturday!
You may have received a few more plants and different varieties than you were expecting - we realized late that we had more broccoli and collard greens and you may have gotten fewer slicing tomatoes than were promised. We apologize for that and hope you will enjoy a bountiful garden this year.
We also know that many of you are first-time gardeners and we want to encourage you to engage with Edible Flint beyond this one transaction. We encourage you to check back in with us and share photos, questions, recipes, trouble and triumph to create a supportive network of gardens all over Flint and Genesee County. We will share what we know and learn from gardeners and growers in our community about tending, dealing with pests, and harvesting!
We are going to try to do our first ever virtual garden tour this summer and invite our entire community to share in your success – all gardens are welcome to participate – whether at your home, in your neighborhood, church or other groups. Please visit our website, follow us on social media – on Facebook, on Instagram, and on Twitter -- check out the links above.
Information Resources for Gardeners
- Did you get a garden kit but you need more copies of the Growing Guide?
- Find the planting guide for seeds and transplants?
- Need to save some of your seeds for next year?
- Planting potatoes?
- Have ideas or recommendations for us to improve our 2021 Garden kits? Take our survey by clicking the link here! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeBis7hHq5WBDY-dmifXJuJRn7_WnfE2Hj2gyLBnkTcSr5bXg/viewform?usp=sf_link
Thank you for joining us for the 11th Annual Garden Tour!
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.
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
Now Back in Stock- Garden Hose Water Filters- available while supplies last
Summary of 10 years of Impact in Flint through our work
For the past 10 growing seasons, beginning in 2009, Edible Flint has worked to support community 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.
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
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Check out edible flint in the news!
Edible Flint is in the fall 2017 edition of edibleWOW magazine.
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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
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
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Percentage of Gardens that are safe for Food Production
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edible flint Garden Starters Program-
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Graph courtesy of Richard Sadler, PHD, Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine/Division of Public Health, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University
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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.
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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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