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Eliot Coleman Lecture
Food and Farming in the 21'st Century,
sponsored by the Greening of Detroit.
Friday June 19, 6-8 pm, Detroit Waldorf School, No Charge
Please download brochure for full details.
Grosse Pointe Garden Center Garden Tour
Saturday and Sunday, June 27 & 28, 10 am-5 pm
Tour six special Grosse Pointe gardens.
$12 pretour, $15 at individual gardens. Call (313) 881-7511, x 206 for
pretour tickets. Day of tour tickets at-Grosse Pointe War Memorial,
32 Lakeshore, GPF
Dequindre Cut - Update
It‘s official! Opening Day Ceremony for the Dequindre Cut, Phase I, was Thursday, May 14 beginning at 10:00 a.m. at the Lafayette and St. Aubin entrance. Groups have been invited to participate. You are invited to come and join the Detroit Garden Center’s contingent by arriving at 9:30 a.m. at the above entrance. Onstreet parking on both streets. After the ceremony, the Martin Luther King High School band will lead the group back 3 blocks to Woodbridge St. where the D Cut, as it is called, begins, then turn around and walk one mile back to Gratiot. You may walk any portion of the distance. Refreshments will be served at the DGC offices.
The railway turned paved bike and pedestrian path has made an incredible transformation from its litter strewn past. Adding to the black-topped path are benches, lighting, emergency phones and TV monitors. The Detroit River Conservancy, a nonprofit organization - just show up on May 14. Look for the DGC banner. You may reach me on my cell phone that day at (313) 570-3304.
I have walked the unofficially open D Cut many times, and it is a pleasant walk, a real positive for Detroit, and a won-derful replacement for an eyesore abandoned railway.
The event is also an opportunity to view the area the DGC wishes to
landscape with appropriate native plants across from the
Vigliotti Bldg., DGC headquarters.
Janet Macunovich's free email newsletter: The address is JMaxGarden @ aol.com. Janet is putting out a CD which will have all her books and prior writings from her Growing Concerns file.
Detroit Garden Center
1900 E. Jefferson, Suite 227
Phone: 313-259-6363 Fax:313-259-0107
Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.
The Detroit Garden Center is a non-profit educational institution serving metropolitan Detroit since 1932 in areas of gardening, beautification, and horticulture through lectures, tours, workshops, outreach programs, and an extensive horticulture library.