Education Opportunities

Winter Education Opportunities

Nutrition on a Budget-
Wednesday, 1/18/12, 6:30-8:00pm
Towne Center Place- Common Room
401 W. Michigan Ave, Ypsilanti, MI

Join Growing Hope for our upcoming class on healthy cooking! We'll be preparing a delicious and nutritious Sweet Potato Stew, and providing practical tips for eating healthfully on any kind of budget. Every participant will get to enjoy a sample tasting and take home a recipe as well.

This free class takes place at 6:30pm on January 18th, at Towne Center Place, 401 W. Michigan Ave in downtown Ypsilanti, in the Common Room.

Intro to Market Gardening-
Thursday, 1/26/12, 6:30-8:00pm
Ypsilanti Senior and Recreation Center
1015 N. Congress St, Ypsilanti, MI

Join Growing Hope for our upcoming class on selling produce grown at your home or community garden plot! We'll be covering a variety of introductory topics, including business planning, crop planning, standards, cottage foods, and options for selling. Our goal is for you to leave the class with a better understand of what market gardening is, how you go about planning for a market garden, and ideas for selling your produce!

This class takes place at 6:30pm on January 26th, at the Ypsilanti Senior & Recreation Center, 1015 N. Congress St in Ypsilanti. Class cost is based on a sliding scale: $3-15 suggested fee.

Click here to RSVP to either class

Bring your group together and produce food- attend Garden Leadership Training 2012!

Community gardens are a great way to organize groups around food growing, healthy eating, community need, and cooperative work. Perhaps you, your organization, or someone you know has considered starting one - but found yourselves wondering where to begin. If so, Garden Leadership Training may be just what you need to get growing!

Growing Hope's six-session course teaches participants how to organize a group for a common cause and define steps for establishing, maintaining and sustaining a garden. Past participants include ‘Faith and Food’ congregations with goals of growing fresh produce for their members and community food banks; schools aiming to provide students with hands-on gardening experience and nutrition education; Health Clinics who want to engage their patients in healthy food production; and neighbors and apartment complex dwellers who garden on common ground.

If your group is interested in applying or learning more, contact Liz Drabik by email or at (734) 786-8401.