Our mission is to empower our neighbors to grow food in and for our community.
Due to the power outages and forecast of a thunderstorm we will being moving the Bed Building Workshop to September 7th from 10am to 12pm.
Also on September 7th we are having a Soil Shop from 9am to 12 pm. Come bring your soil to get tested for lead. Thank you Michigan Department of Human & Health Services for partnering & providing us with soil testing!
Join us to learn the basics about building a bed!
Consider joining the workshop to combat building a raised bed that warps. (🔑The key is leveling). Don’t build your bed like mines! -Sylvia
If you will to help out, come join us tomorrow!
Hey there Oakland County gardeners, check out these garden resources and volunteer hours with Yad Ezra in Berkley!
🙌🙌🙌 They have a beautiful greenhouse and garden program, Giving Gardens!
It looks like it may be rainy tomorrow, so we moved the workshop inside. Hope to see you join us!
*PARKING: The class is located in Downtown Pontiac. There is metered & free parking in certain areas.
*ACCESSIBILITY: The workshop is on the second floor. There is both stair and elevator access. (There is signage directing people to the elevator).
🪻🪻Join Sarah & Sylvia to dry some herbs and flowers. Let’s explore what you can do with them later for cooking or decorative use! 🪻🪻
Thanks for all your help little bears 🍯🍯🍯🍯 2024 honey harvest is in the books! We didn't want to take too much before fall hits, but we pulled about 5 gallons today! DM if ya need to buy some delicious spring honey 🥰
Make sure to join us the upcoming week if you would like to spruce up the Paddock Garden with us.
Make sure to dress for the weather & all help is welcomed!
THIS SAT 7/13 from 11 AM to 1 PM! - Are you a Garden Resource Club member who wants to see what other gardeners are up to? Are curious about the incredible work happening in Pontiac to grow and share fresh food, flowers and medicine? Please JOIN US for our FIRST Growing Pontiac annual self-guided Garden Tour and connect with the land!
HOW TO JOIN: 🌻Meet us at the community garden at 361 S Paddock St at 11:00 AM to get your paper and digital map! 🌻 Connect with eight amazing gardeners in our garden Resource Club and large-scale farm project partners in the heart of Pontiac TOMORROW, Saturday 7/13 from 11 to 1 pm.
Garden Party with an outdoor pizza oven to follow from 11 AM to 1 PM! You have to meet us in person to get the map, so DON'T MISS IT! Pass it on 😍
Has anyone seen this 👀 this gentleman hauled a lot of trash away at our Community Garden at 361 S Paddock! Our gratitude that our space is still flourishing with the work of our neighbors or hood, community gardeners, and volunteers like this 🥰
I'm so excited to share this weeks video with you all. This community garden was in desperate need of some help - especially since there was no safe access! ...
Good morning gardeners and anyone who loves food!
Please JOIN US for our FIRST Growing Pontiac annual self-guided Garden Tour! 🌻Meet us at the community garden at 361 S Paddock St at 11:00 AM to get your paper and digital map! 🌻 Connect with eight amazing gardeners in our garden Resource Club and large-scale farm project partners in the heart of Pontiac TOMORROW, Saturday 7/13 from 11 to 1 pm.
Garden Party with an outdoor pizza oven to follow from 11 AM to 1 PM! You have to meet us in person to get the map, so DON'T MISS IT! Pass it on 😍
SAVE THE DATE! We will be confirming times asap, but next Saturday our lovely members will be hosting a GARDEN TOUR! Self-guided and all over Pontiac, come through for visits with our members and check out what they're growing and how!
Our tour will START at 361 S Paddock St where maps will be available, and it will END at 119 Oliver St at 1 PM for a garden party with food and conversation. Are you a Garden Resource Club Member who would like to be on the tour? Please email us ASAP at hello@growing pontiac.org
If you're not on our mailing list, please message us so we can add you. We hope to see you there!
How do you trellis or support your tomatoes? This is the basket weave method. Tell us below! 👇
Just getting in some much needed beekeeping learning during last weeks' heat wave at Turtlebee Farms 🐝🐝🐝
Extreme heat is coming next week! How can we protect our plants without spending a zillion on water?
👉 SHADE CLOTH is an inexpensive addition to some hoops in the garden to extended the life of cold crops like lettuces, and helps prevent bolting. I use a 30% shade cloth to give me extra harvest time in hot weather
👉MULCH helps prevent evaporation and keeps the roots cool on your plants! Straw and composted leaves are excellent choices
👉SCHEDULED WATERING in very early morning or at night will save you water. Don't forget to check if it's absorbed in the soil by digging around a little w your fingers
👉WILTING midday is normal for your plants, it's how they defend from losing water (they close the stomata on their leaves to prevent more water loss
Stay hydrated and safe!
Just a lil reminder, we have the pleasure of hosting Kristine Hahn (she/her), a conservationist with MSU Extension Master Gardeners-Oakland County at 361 S Paddock TOMORROW, 6/15 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM as we learn about why native pollinator plants matter and HOW we can incorporate them into our landscapes (and even replace our lawn!). Say hi to our Outdoor Coordinator Sylvia Campbell (she/her, they/them) while you're there 👋
Come on down to get a 🌾 FREE kit of 12 native pollinator plants, seeds and if you have space, bareroot hazelnuts!🤩 Plants are first, come first serve and self-selected - bring boxes/bags for the items you take! Special, HUGE thank you to Oakland Conservation District Oakland County Parks, and Wildtype Native Plant Nursery
Exciting news everybody!! We can't wait to work with our partners .multicultural to provide programming at Paddock Community Garden (and beyond) all summer and fall! Catch Sylvia Campbell, Outdoor Coordinator, facilitating fun and land-healing activities this season 🌈
Looking to share your home with native pollinators? Restore natural beauty to your garden? Enjoy the delicate scents of Michigan wildflowers? Then please stop by THIS SATURDAY between 11 am and 1 pm at Paddock Community Garden (361 S Paddock St - parking is across the street at Habitat for Humanity).
Big thank you to Michigan State University Extension - Oakland County and the Oakland Conservation District for providing these beauties
We will have bareroot hazelnut whips and native perennial flowers to share! Bring a bag/box to take your new friends home 😍
It's official - our first annual plant sale is over! Thank you all so much for coming out ~ we are so excited for this season! We're gonna take a little break over here, but our next event is a clean up at 361 S Paddock Community Garden from 11 - 1 PM on May 25th! We will be meeting, hanging out and helping kick the garden off before the official start of summer classes, events and programming June 1st ;)
Missed out on plants? We still have a few Scotch Bonnet peppers, some cherry tomatoes, some eggplant, Cherokee purple and green zebra slicer tomatoes and plenty of collard greens - please email us directly at [email protected] if you'd like to arrange to pick some up. They will be composted next Wednesday as they are outgrowing their pots 🥬
Know anyone looking for $1 heirloom tomatoes?? Please tell your neighbors, friends and fam about our PUBLIC sale of organic veggie transplants THIS Thursday evening from 6 - 8 pm at the greenhouse across from 32 Newberry. We will be having a Saturday sale pending supplies. We want to get these affordable, organic veggie transplants into the community's hands, all are welcome - all plants must go (into the ground at YOUR house 😉).
We have
Tomatoes, 10 varieties
Okra
Basil
Zinnias and Marigolds
Collards and Kale
Groundcherries
Eggplant
Peppers are going fast!
Hey there folks, we will have a sale Thursday and Saturday this week, but this is your last chance as a Club member to get an exclusive head start on plants 🍅 We still have LOTS of tomatoes, okra, collards, kale, groundcherries and flowers! Peppers are going fast. We will have Growing Pontiac tee shirts for sale tonight too ;) See ya there!
We are finally at our PLANT SALE! Thank you to our Garden Resource Club members for going on this format-change journey with us!
Members will receive location and times in emails. More info to come about our PUBLIC plant sale. If you haven't joined the GRC, we will be accepting new members for classes, community, soil and free seeds after 5/15 ~ just email [email protected]!
Members, don't forget to BYOB (bring your own box!) We keep our flats for upcycling :)
Thank you everyone who turned a wonky volunteer day into something really special with last minute flexibility and improvising! The Healing Garden is coming together ❤️
TONIGHT! Stop in for backyard demo of how to make, use and store ollas (pronounced OH-yahss) this evening! This incredible watering technique is over 4000 years old and originates in arid areas of North Africa and China and are still used today in Brazil, Iran, India and many other places. It is low maintenance and a lot of fun to use. Hope to see you at this free demo 🌧️🌾🏺
Help shape food access and food security policy that actually reflects our communities in Oakland County! Please spread the word about this short survey about food access. Your answers could change the food landscape in your neighborhood!
Link to the survey: https://ow.ly/hzl050RsVzb
FREE SEEDS for Garden Resource Club members TONIGHT! At the greenhouse across from 32 Newberry, 6 to 7:30 p.
Do you want to meet a supportive gardening community in the Pontiac area? Join up! Email us at [email protected] 👋
What a beautiful evening...warm rain, healthy greenhouse, incredible sunset, and we captures our first ever spring honeybee swarm! ⛈️🌈🐝🌱
What a beautiful evening in the prophouse, sharing seeds and stories! If you haven't joined the Garden Resource Club, we are here to connect to the land and grow food successfully side by side. The Club is free and open totally! Join by emailing [email protected] and get in on all the events, classes, organic plant sale, free seeds and compost and more!
Hello friends 👋 Just another opportunity to pick up FREE GARDEN SEEDS!
Come by the greenhouse across from 32 Newberry to check out the variety and our transplants that are growing fast!
361 S Paddock Street
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3 hives this year let's gooooo 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
This community is incredible 💚
Watch how to preserve your thyme. You can always explore enjoyable & efficient ways to preserve your herbs. This also a great time to reuse some containers you have. A @combunityhoney (local honey) jar was used to store this thyme.
Did you decide to extend your fall garden 🥬🥬? Here’s an idea for next year, A cold frame! When building a frame it’s good to factors in these things: * Make sure the frame allows water and snow to roll off * Use a post that is flexible but also sturdy * It’s easily accessible * Wear protective gear
Zinnias & Marigolds add a nice color to the garden! Let’s save them for the next year. Or become a garden resource member in 2024 to see what flowers will be shared. *Additional Tip: Between cutting different plants make sure to clean cutting tools to not spread disease.
Did you know that we offer free lead testing for soil for GRN members for FREE? 👀 DM us to learn more, or click the link in our bio to register and join the GRN. ✨ #GrowingPontiac #DowntownPontiac #Pontiac #PontiacMichigan #GardenResources #Gardening #HolisticLiving #SoilLife #SoilTest #LeadTesting #SoilHealth #GardenResourceNewtwork
Happy Friday, friends! ✨ Join us on Thursday, March 23rd, as we focus on building healthy, vibrant soil for a healthy garden and soil testing. We hope to cya there. 👋 Location: 📍 40 W. Howard #214 Pontiac, MI, 48342 #GrowingPontiac #SoilTesting #SoilTest #Gardening #DowntownPontiac #HealthySoil
Have you ever wanted to make soap? Join us for a soap making demonstration with Sylvia Campbell and leave with a luscious natural bar of turmeric shea butter soap ❤️ Thank you Centro Multicultural La Familia for hosting us! RSVP at our Facebook Event and hang with us TONIGHT, 6:30 to 8:00 pm! Donation only :)
Pontiac Bee School 2022 💕
"We are EXCITED to be partnering with three other incredible Pontiac organizations this week for Pontiac Read & Grow! This week you'll be seeing videos from members of our four organizations reading books about gardening and growing and sharing activities to put what we've read into action! Make sure to follow Center for Success, Micah 6 Community, and Centro Multicultural La Familia so you don't miss a page! Today Sylvia is reading "Lola Plants a Garden" by Anna McQuinn. Our activity is creating a garden of your own. Make sure to stop by Sprout Fresh Food Store to pick up your kit for your garden. Address for kit picks up on the next post.
"We are EXCITED to be partnering with three other incredible Pontiac organizations this week for Pontiac Read & Grow! This week you'll be seeing videos from members of our four organizations reading books about gardening and growing and sharing activities to put what we've read into action! Make sure to follow Center for Success, Micah 6 Community, and Centro Multicultural La Familia so you don't miss a page! Today Sylvia is reading "Lola Plants a Garden" by Anna McQuinn. Make sure to head out to Sprout Fresh Food Store to pick up your kit to grow your own garden. Activity and address to pick up the garden kit listed in the next post.
Here's a quick little run down of how to harvest greens! When is your kale ready? Are your collards big enough to cut? Here are some quick answers. Comment with questions and pics 🌻
Save this post! Volunteer opportunities and Member Resource Pick ups are coming up fast 🌱
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