Durand Beautification Project

27/10/2025

🌸 A huge thank you to our amazing Beautification Warriors — Lori Childs, Mike Nazarian, Grayson, and Addison — for all your hard work in downtown Durand and at Union Station Smokehouse! 🌿💪 Your dedication keeps our community looking beautiful and welcoming. We are so grateful for your commitment to Durand! 💚

11/10/2025

Beautification Warriors in Action! 🌻🍁

Fall has arrived, and while the leaves are putting on a show, our Beautification Warriors are hard at work preparing downtown for winter! 🍂🪴

A huge thank-you to Shelly Tolsdorf, Councilman Andy Zick, and Mayor Jeff Brands for spending the day grooming planters, cleaning up flower beds, and making sure our downtown stays beautiful year-round.

07/10/2025

Please join the Durand Beautifcation Project clean up for fall. We could use everyones help.

16/08/2025

Community challenge! When you’re out on a walk, turn it into a scavenger hunt. Lots of produce starting to come on. Help yourselves. It good for you and the bees. They are busy🐝

11/08/2025

The garden in front of Union Station Smoke House has produce ready.. eggplant, peppers, cukes 🍆🫑🥒

02/08/2025

Big thanks to volunteers like David O’Bryant, Jeff Brands, Lori Childs, Mike Nazarian and others who help keep Durand’s Edible Landscape thriving! 🌿👨‍🌾

Take a stroll from Union Station Smokehouse to the Durand Schools Administration Building and you’ll find fresh produce growing right in our downtown planters — beans, cucumbers, green tomatoes, green peppers, herbs, and more! 🍅🌶️🥒

Remember your grandparents talking about fried green tomatoes? 🧓🍽️ Now’s the time to give them a try — there are plenty on the vine! The jalapeños are nearly ripe, and the green peppers range from baby-sized to ready-to-pick.

Don’t let this beautiful produce go to waste — it’s there for you to enjoy, free of charge! 💚🥗

02/08/2025

Several people have noticed the amazing aroma coming from the 🌿 Blue Cross Complete of Michigan raised bed next to the Durand Memorial Library — and it’s no wonder! The herbs are ready for picking, including rosemary, oregano, basil, and lemongrass 🌱✨ Perfect for soups, sauces, salsas, or drying for later use 🍲🌶️

We invite you to harvest some for yourself or share with a friend 🤗 Durand’s edible landscape is here for everyone to enjoy — and it’s completely free! 💚

26/07/2025

This why our volunteers do what they do!

We found some pickle treasures at one of the community gardens 😍🥒
Thank you Durand Beautification Project!

24/07/2025

🥒✨ Look at these beautiful cukes from the Edible Landscape! ✨🥒

The planters downtown — including those in front of Union Station Smokehouse, next to the library, and scattered throughout the area — are producing more veggies and herbs every single day! 🌿🍅🌼

And guess what? They’re there for YOU to enjoy.
✅ Healthy
✅ Pesticide-free
✅ Planted with love
✅ And did we mention… totally FREE?

So grab a bag, take a stroll, and load up on some fresh goodness. 👜💚
Your salad (and your taste buds) will thank you!

22/07/2025

It’s not even 8 a.m., and Beautification Volunteer Lori Childs is already hard at work sprucing up the downtown planters! 🌼 Thank you, Lori, for your early-morning dedication and love for our community! 💚