Pie Lovers Unite!

Dear Growing Hope friends,

Together with Slow Food Huron Valley, we're hosting the Sustainable Table's "Pie Across America" tour and celebrating our local food community with great Michigan pies in an old-fashioned hootenanny. We're planning to hear what the tour has been like, have a pie-walk, a local pie bake-off with prizes, and of course PIE EATING! Please join us, bring your friends and your favorite home-baked pie - either sweet or savory!

Date: Saturday, September 1st
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Ladies Literary Club in Ypsilanti. 218 N. Washington
Admission: Costs 1 pie (or suggested donation). More pies are welcome!

To enter the pie contest, bring a recipe card listing your pie's
ingredients and where each ingredient was produced. Categories for
the contest include: Most local pie, prettiest pie, tastiest pie,
best savory pie, most unique pie, and kid's pie.

Please see the Slow Food Huron Valley website for more details:
http://sfhv.org/pie.html

And keep track of the Sustainable Table's tour with daily updates
from their blog at:
http://sustainabletable.com/roadtrip/


Thanks - we hope to see you and your pie on Saturday, September 1st!

Jessica Cook, Board Secretary
Growing Hope

Beer Tasting!

Growing Hope's Beer Tasting-- get your tickets now!
Enjoy open bar at a premier brewery & support Growing Hope at the same time!

Join supporters of Growing Hope and connoisseurs of fine brew at The Corner Brewery to support Growing Hope on August 26th from 3-5pm. Tickets price is $20 per person, which includes beer tasting for two hours plus appetizers.

Tickets will NOT be sold at the door. Please contact us tickets by calling 734.786.8401 or Click here to buy online now! [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=gtz9cdcab.0.z4h5bdcab.htlj88bab.713&ts=S0270&p=https%3A%2F%2F128bit.clickandpledge.com%2FDefault.asp%3FID%3D14368]

Event Info
The Corner Brewery
720 Norris St
Ypsilanti, MI 48198
August 26, 2007
3:00PM-5:00PM

West Willow Community Garden Takes Root!

Growing Hope and the West Willow Neighborhood Association are proud to announce the official opening and community celebration of the West Willow Community Garden.

Neighborhood residents of the West Willow Community pulled together this winter and spring to develop a plan, a plan to improve their community and lives. Through months of discussions, brainstorming and planning residents decided a new community garden would be one action step, a positive move forward to improving their neighborhood. And in the early summer Growing Hope jumped in to help with this process!

June was a busy month for the West Willow Garden Committee. They attended two three-hour training and preparation sessions hosted by Growing Hope designed to get the Garden Committee ready for a successful first season. The on June 30th, over 15 community residents and volunteers pulled together to get this garden in the ground. Workers cleared the area, rototilled the large communal plot, built raised beds, spread compost, and planted flowers and veggies galore. This ambitious garden has an open communal bed and 8 individual or family raised beds with over 1400 ft2 of garden in cultivation this year.