Photo Day Pictures

Despite the on and off drizzling we all had a great time taking the photo for the calendar. Here are some nice pictures of the day. These pictures don't give away the calendar shot, so you'll have to wait :)

Garden to be in City of Dearborn Calendar

Great news! Our garden has been chosen to be in the city calendar for next year! We are taking our group photo this Saturday at 4pm.

Also this past Friday we had an interview with Mayor O'Reilly that will be featured during his show on CDTV.

Rain Barrels Needed

Have a few 55 gallon drum barrels laying around that you need get out of your backyard? We are looking to make a water reclamation system on a neighbor's garage. The barrels will help us save water and keep our garden going strong. If anyone is willing to donate please leave a comment. Thanks!

Come visit us; updates coming soon

Welcome to everyone who has been visiting our site recently. We invite everyone to visit and walk through our garden. This Saturday we will be having a general workday at 1pm. Please stop by and say hello.

The garden is located at 7730 Calhoun Street.


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Also, updates on what we have been doing on the lot are coming soon!

Our garden is looking better by the day! We decided to add mulch to the front lot to make it more inviting and walkable after a rain. The City of Dearborn provides the mulch free for residents at Ford Field in West Dearborn.

Again it is hard to believe that this lot went from this...

to this...

International Garden

Today we purchased miniature flags to put near the fence. The flags represent the different ethnicities of the families who have contributed their time to the garden. They also reflect the diversity of our community:

America
Canada
England
France
Germany
Hungary
Iraq
Ireland
Italy
Lebanon
Peru
Poland
Scotland
Slovakia
South Korea



A special thank you to The Flag Shop located in Livonia who gave us a nice discount.

A thank you

We would like to take a moment to mention two companies who have greatly contributed to the garden's success: Wipak Medical, who ships their products on the pallets and Healthmark Industries who receives them and in turn generously donated them to us. Without their help we would not have been able to build our great garden boxes. The pallets are heat treated, kiln dried and debarked. They do not contain any chemicals

Healthmark is a family owned, Michigan based company dealing in infection control products. Wipak Medical is one the world's largest medical packaging company, based in Finland.