Giving Gardens

Creating & maintaining gardens where all members of the community are welcome to enjoy, appreciate and harvest flowers, herbs, vegetables and berries. Empowering local people to garden for themselves, their families and their community.

In 2024 we want to move to the next phase of the Giving Gardens by

1.

Expanding

We hope to put Giving Gardens within walking distance of more households in our community.

2.

Educating

We plan to offer ongoing and seasonally appropriate garden education to support home and community gardening efforts.

3.

Organizing

We plan to identify, train and organize local volunteers to help create and manage more community gardening efforts

Why we do It

At the Giving Gardens, we believe in a brighter future where everyone has access to the knowledge and resources that will allow them to live healthy, full lives and reestablish vital connections with the natural world. 

For generations, people in our region took advantage of some of the world’s best soil and ample rainfall to raise, process and eat quality, local food. 

Yet the land located within the limits of our small towns is mostly managed as lawns or not managed at all. 

Today, nearly everyone is wholly dependent on foods trucked in from other parts of the world, and the knowledge and skills that were once taken for granted as part of our local heritage, have been largely lost.

In short, there is a great, untapped, potential to produce more of our food right here at home and to make our surroundings more beautiful and productive.

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About Giving Gardens

The Giving Gardens are places where all members of the community are welcome to enjoy, appreciate and harvest flowers, herbs, vegetables and berries. Empowering local people to garden for themselves, their families and their community.


The impact of the Giving Gardens on the neighbors and the neighborhood, on the people that visit and harvest from our gardens defies quantification. It’s the kind of thing that has to be told in pictures and stories because there is no easy way to tell the story in numbers.

At one level, the Giving Gardens have been a source of garden-fresh vegetables, herbs, and flowers for many people in the community during the last three summers. However, the real power and impact of the Giving Gardens goes well beyond what is produced there.

Giving Gardens Provide

Access to organically managed vegetables, herbs, flowers, berries to all members of the community.

Welcoming, public spaces where people of all walks of life gather to harvest and appreciate the natural world.

Excellent habitat for our besieged local pollinators (birds and insects).

Live "model gardens" where people can observe how and when and what to grow locally adapted varieties and vegetable types.

Giving Gardens Are

Inspirational

The gardens are one of the things that local people talk about during the summer. They are one of the things that makes Macomb special and unique. The Giving Gardens inspire people to think differently about their neighbors.

Our gardens are offerings to everyone, rich or poor, friend or stranger, red or blue without reservation and without barrier.

Educational

People of all ages and all levels of knowledge and experience learn from our Gardens.

Many people have never had access to a garden or harvested anything fresh.


On the other hand, even experienced gardeners get ideas and learn techniques by carefully observing our gardens and considering how we use them.

Transformational

Many people are inspired to garden on their own because of the Giving Gardens. Our hope is to eventually have solid programming that supports people’s own interests in gardening at home and in their neighborhood.

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Beautifying and empowering
the community,
 one garden at a time

Creating sanctuaries of hope and community where people of all walks of life gather to harvest and learn

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