The Mission of the Grand Ledge Community Gardening Project (GLCGP) is to provide an opportunity for our community to get involved with nature; to assist in providing fresh locally grown food for our local food bank(s) and soup kitchens. We hope to be an important part of educating our community and our youth in growing fresh food for a healthy, sustainable future from seed to table! We are a nonpr
ofit membership organization of professionals, volunteers and supporters of our community with diverse knowledge and experience in community relationships, gardening, and farming. The GLCGP recognizes that community gardening improves people’s quality of life by providing a catalyst for neighborhood and community development, stimulating social interaction, encouraging self-reliance, beautifying neighborhoods, producing nutritious food, reducing family food budgets, conserving resources and creating opportunities for recreation, exercise, therapy and education. The GLCGP works to promote and support all aspects of community food, organic gardening, and non-genetically modified organisms, seeds and plants. The GLCGP supports community gardening by facilitating the formation and expansion of state and regional community gardening networks, developing resources in support of community gardening, and, encouraging research and conducting educational programs. In the near future we will have community garden plots available for those who are interested in gardening but do not have a space of their own. We ask for your help in supporting this project by:
• Joining us in finding and planning new garden spaces.
• Helping in the gardens by volunteering.
• Sharing your knowledge with children and less experienced gardeners at the garden locations.
• Helping us in the various groups we are associated with by attending meetings as representatives of the GLCGP and reporting back to the board.
• Volunteering to work our booth at the Grand Ledge Farmer’s Market where we help the Farmer’s Market personnel and/or volunteers with the Market.
• Donating garden items, tools, plants, seeds, materials, and land space.
• Your generous contribution to the GLCGP. Donations can be made to the GLCGP through the Grand Ledge Chamber of Commerce or the Greater Lansing Food Bank’s Garden Project “in care of the Grand Ledge Community Garden Project”. For more information:
“Like” us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GrandLedgeCommunityGarden
Sign up to volunteer at our Facebook volunteer page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/GLCommunityGardenVolunteers/
Or contact Larry Austin at: (517) 230-1380
The GLCGP is associated and working with the Grand Ledge Farmer’s Market and the Grand Ledge Growing Healthy Communities Coalition.
