Garden Tours

Hi All,

Two weeks from today is the time we would normally have our community potluck. But on August 5th the Greening of Detroit and the Detroit Agricultural Network hold their annual urban garden tour! The plan is for our group to have a field trip! We will get a chance to see many other community gardens as well as some large backyard gardens.

We should each sign up individually for it (sign up is a must - it sells out). There are 4 tours to choose from, one of which is a bicycle tour. Clem and I did the bicycle tour last year which was very good. I think it would be fun if we all did the same tour and I'm thinking we should do the Eastside tour - since we are eastsiders!

All tours leave from the Catherine Ferguson Academy (in itself a wonderful thing to see) on the near west side at 6:00 sharp. There is a meal at Catherine Ferguson after the tours. (Registration begins at 5:00 - last year we got there a few minutes before 6:00 and we were okay)

I realize some people may want to go right from work, but for those of us who are starting off from Grayton it would be good to carpool.

I'm attaching a link to a link (DAN and The Greening Websites are hard to navigate) that will let you sign up for the tour. Let me know what your plans are. It would be good if we can all get on the same bus. As always, kids are welcome.

http://blog.eatlocalfood.com/2009/07/2009-urban-garden-tour-is-wednesday.html


Betsy Breckels