GROW WHERE YOU ARE. JOIN THE GARDEN RESOURCE PROGRAM!
For over a decade, the Garden Resource Program (GRP) has supported family, community, school, and market gardens in Detroit, Highland Park, and Hamtramck. Participants in the Garden Resource Program receive resources for their vegetable gardens, including seeds and Detroit grown transplants and become part of a growing network of gardeners and advocates working to promote urban agriculture within a thriving local food system.
USEFUL LINKS:
- Click here to complete your 2018 Garden Resource Program Application on-line
- 2018 Garden Resource Program Application (English)
- 2018 Garden Resource Program Application (Spanish)
- 2018 Seed and Plant Varieties
- 2018 Perennial Fruit Varieties
- 2018 Spring Seed Instructions
- 2018 Perennial Fruit Instructions
- 2018 Cold Weather Transplant Instructions
- 2018 Hot Weather Seed and Transplant Instructions
- 2018 Fall Seed and Transplant Instructions (available in July)
2018 SEED & PLANT PICK UP DATES:
WESTSIDE COLD WEATHER SEEDS: Tuesday, March 13th, 5-7PM at Broadstreet Presbyterian Church, 12065 Broadstreet, 48204 or
EASTSIDE COLD WEATHER SEEDS: Thursday, March 15th, 5-7PM at Earthworks Urban Farm, 1264 Meldrum, 48207
COLD CROPS: Thursday, April 19th, 5-7PM or Saturday, April 21st, 1-3PM at Earthworks Urban Farm,
1264 Meldrum, 48207
HOT CROPS: Thursday, May 17th, 5-7PM or Saturday, May 19th, 1-3PM at Earthworks Urban Farm,
1264 Meldrum, 48207
FALL CROPS: Thursday, July 19th, 5-7PM or Saturday, July 21st, 1-3PM at Earthworks Urban Farm,
1264 Meldrum, 48207
LEARN AND EARN WORKSHOPS
Learn and Earn workshops are hands-on lessons about a select GRP garden resource paired with some farm work that practices using that resource. GRP members that attend take resources including potato seed, onion sets, sweet potato slips back to their gardens to plant. Next up…Motown Music garlic seed! Mark your calendars for October 20th. More details coming soon.