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Please join us for our 2nd annual fundraising event to support The Haven Garden Project! A spectacular evening of wine & food tasting, music, friends and community to keep The Haven Garden Project of Pontiac growing and thriving! Friday June 10th, 6-9 pm at the BBAC Bloomfield Birmingham Art Association. Tickets are available for purchase at [...]
You may want to give your bees a helping hand when it comes to collecting pollen and nectar by planting bee-friendly flowers and shrubs in your garden or outside space. Even in a larger garden, you’ll unlikely have enough flowers to produce sufficient nectar to sustain a hive, so your bees will probably go farther [...]
It all began with a tiny seed of idea: “What if HAVEN could increase its fresh food supply by creating a garden?” The seed germinated back in February with the creation of the HAVEN Garden Project Committee (HAVEN Staff, The Michigan Young Farmer Coalition, ASK In Your Face and Abundant Succession) and an enthusiastic plan [...]
The HAVEN Garden Project, the MYFC’s first official initiative, made it in the news recently: http://www.dailytribune.com/articles/2010/08/26/news/srv0000009191749.txt Fresh produce for HAVEN By Jeanne Towar for the Daily Tribune The name of Allison Stuart Kaplan’s company, Ask in Your Face, is your first clue that this is a woman with strong opinions who gets things done. Kaplan was [...]
I used to love clothes shopping as the ultimate escape: fun, exciting, despite a quickly-fading rush as I selected shirts, shoes, dresses and jeans as if I were reinventing myself with each purchase. But recently, I realized that more than quick-high (and eventual drop) I get from a shopping spree, I would far rather immerse myself [...]
This is the best time of year for nutrition and health – when all the local crops are ripe and ready for the picking. If you’re conscious of eating local and eating close to the source, then you already know that shopping at Michigan farmers markets and putting just-picked produce as the focus of your [...]
June 17th, 2010. The Main Garden. Early crops in the foreground, summer crops in the background. It’s 7:30 AM Monday morning. The HAVEN Kitchen is humming with the gentle gurgle of the coffee pot, the chatter of women as they fill morning bottles for their little ones, and the whirl of the salad spinner as [...]
Abundant Succession’s organic vegetable, fruit and herb garden in Troy, MI (July 2009). Memo to Juan Ponce de Leon: it was in your backyard the whole time. And it’s in your backyard, too. Though it may not look like it now, with the right information and a little sweat equity, your backyard can become a [...]
Gardening is one tough yet gratifying job. Open up any home and/or garden magazine this time of year and the pages pull you right in with their abundant greenery, long, straight rows of gorgeous vegetation, sun shining, and decorative artifacts. Sometimes there’s even a shapely glass pitcher filled with lemonade, glistening with beads of moisture [...]
“Food democracy is the new agenda for ecological sustainability and social justice.” Hello! In recent years, a new and exciting trend in agriculture has emerged: the revival of local, sustainable and small-scale community gardening. Most encouragingly, this model is achievable by everyone, everywhere, with a little know-how and the right materials. It is a model [...]
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