ANC is excited to welcome and introduce neighbors to the Hunter Park GardenHouse, a state-of-the-art greenhouse located in Hunter Park on Lansing's Eastside. This project was one of thirteen Cool Cities awards given out across the state of Michigan, and it is a joint project of ANC and the City of Lansing Parks and Recreation. It is part of a 9-point plan to improve Hunter Park, which also includes the walking path constructed around the perimeter of the park in 2006, as well as the newly-renovated Hunter Park Pool, set to open this July.
The GardenHouse will serve as a demonstration and education facility, as well as a place to help Eastsiders grow their own food. It will also be used to produce flower transplants for the beautification of the Eastside. It is our intention to have starter transplants for other neighbors and we will be a site for neighborhood plant sharing and swapping.
We are pleased to have many Eastside neighborhood organizations, including HERO, ABC, Prospect Protectors, PLACE, Hunter Park West, Your Neighbors, and Regent Oaks working with us in the GardenHouse this season. (For a map of where each of these groups is located, please visit this map of the Eastside's organized neighborhoods.)
Each organization will have one 4’ X 8’ raised growing bed per 10-12 people involved, as space allows.
ANC's Youth Service Corps, in addition to their enormous help in building the garden beds and preparing the interior of the greenhouse, will have a number of beds. They will be growing food crops and hopefully engaging in some entrepreneurial activities when their plants mature!
All neighbors wanting to grow plants in the greenhouse will be asked to attend a short session on “Best Practices…Growing Successfully in a Greenhouse”. Growing in a greenhouse is not the same as backyard or plot gardening. This allows all of us to learn together about how our beautiful new greenhouse will work! The next of these workshops will take place on March 15th at 1:00 at the GardenHouse. Neighbors not able to make it to this session may schedule one with Linda Anderson by calling 999-3910 or emailing her at lindaa@allenneighborhoodcenter.org.
Questions or comments about the site? Contact us or email ancfranny@gmail.com.