Welcome to the Hunter Park Community GardenHouse!
ANC is excited to welcome neighbors to the Hunter Park GardenHouse, a community-based 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 was part of a 9-point plan to improve Hunter Park, which has included the walking path constructed around the perimeter of the park in 2006, as well as the newly-renovated Hunter Park Pool.
The GardenHouse serves as a demonstration and education facility, as well as a community space where Eastsiders can host group meetings and events. It is also used to produce flower transplants for the beautification of the Eastside. We have starter transplants available for neighbors each May, and we are a site for neighborhood plant sharing and swapping.
Check out the 2010 Workshop Schedule:
Gardeners of all experience levels are encouraged to come down to the Hunter Park Community GardenHouse for a full menu of garden workshop options. Join our industry experts and meet the neighbors at any one of the following workshops in the coming months; unless indicated otherwise, these workshops are free to the public (donations appreciated!):
Seed Starting, Saturday February 27th, 2-3:30pm
Take control over what you grow this year! Starting your seeds inside allows you to grow more varieties of the crops you love, even the kinds that might take longer than the Michigan soil and climate would otherwise allow. You don’t have to gamble that your favorite pepper and heirloom tomato transplants will be available when you need them this year—start them yourself! Join Linda Anderon Saturday, February 27th from 2-3:30pm at the GardenHouse to learn about seed starting techniques and timing.
First Friday Film Night, King Corn: Friday March 5th, 7pm
The GardenHouse will be screening a food related film on the first Friday of every month. Come down to the park for our second film night on March 5th at 7pm for a free showing of King Corn. Here is what Amazon.com had to say about the film:
“KING CORN is a fun and crusading journey into the digestive tract of our fast food nation where one ultra-industrial, pesticide-laden, heavily-subsidized commodity dominates the food pyramid from top to bottom corn. Fueled by curiosity and a dash of naivete, college buddies Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis return to their ancestral home of Greene, Iowa to figure out how a modest kernel conquered America.
With the help of some real farmers, oodles of fertilizer and government aide, and some genetically modified seeds, the friends manage to grow one acre of corn. Along the way, they unlock the hilarious absurdities and scary but hidden truths about America s modern food system in this engrossing and eye-opening documentary.
A graceful and frequently humorous film that captures the idiosyncrasies of its characters and never hectors (Salon), KING CORN shows how and why whenever you eat a hamburger or drink a soda, you re really consuming … corn.”
Dining From your Backyard: Saturday, March 6th, 2-3:30pm
Lynne Martinez will join us to lead a relaxed and interactive conversation about dining from your back yard, including information on:
*Intensive urban gardening – preparing beds, giving up rows and sequencing planting
*Integrating plantings – mixing flowers, vegetables and herbs for beauty and bountiful harvests
*The joy of “finding” dinner in your garden complementary plantings to satisfy and expand your dining preferences, including recipes
This workshop is also free to the public. Please bring your neighbors down to enjoy an afternoon of garden enlightenment. See you in the GardenHouse!
The Let’s Garden Lansing workshop calendar is finally here!
The GardenHouse is cozying up to Lansing partners in gardening education to publish and promote a number of workshops for the Lansing public. These Lansing organizations, including The Garden Project, Northwest Initiative, South Lansing Community Development Association, and MSU Extension, are doing things to educate and advocate gardening skills and self reliance in the food system. The calendar is posted all over the city, listing the workshops planned by all of the organizations from now through March of 2010, along with contact information to get you registered. We plan to publish a new calendar every quarter to keep you updated through the year. Soon, we will add the calendar to this website, but for now, visit www.letsgardenlansing.org to view the calendar and find out about gardening activities being offered all over the city.
For more workshops in Lansing, sure to check out letsgardenlansing.org
New Open Hours for Winter!
- From November 1, 2009 through March 1, 2010, the GardenHouse will be open:
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- Mondays-Fridays: 3:30 to 5:30 PM
- Saturdays and Sundays: 1:30 PM to 5:30 PM
The GardenHouse Gazette
The GardenHouse Gazette is an e-newsletter that provides volunteers and interested gardeners with information about upcoming educational opportunities, including workshops and events in the GardenHouse and activities related to the local foods movement around Lansing. The publication also includes information about volunteer needs and scheduling. If you would like to receive the weekly Gazette, please send your request via email to Allison Burkholder at allisonb@allenneighborhoodcenter.org.
For more information about the GardenHouse, or to register for a workshop, please contact Allison Burkholder at 248-672-8365 or email her at allisonb@allenneighborhoodcenter.org.