Participating Gardens

• Beauty From Ashes
     Community Garden
• The Bloom Room at
     Parkwood-Upjohn Elementary
• Cameron Street Garden
• Campus Beet Garden
• Community Garden
     Resource Shed
• Dalano Farm at KNC
• Douglas Community Association
     Garden
• FCCLA/KCHS Garden
• Growing Community Garden
• Growing Matters Garden
• Historic Stuart Neighborhood   Garden
• Hummingbird Butterfly Garden
     at KNC
• The Jolly Garden
     at Kalamazoo College
• Oakwood Community Garden
• Recovery Garden
• Roots of Knowledge
      Garden at Woodward Elmtry
• Schoolcraft UMC Community
     Garden
• Tabatha Farm Urban Homestead
     & Community Garden
• Trybal Revival Community
     Garden
• Trybal Revival Eastside
     Ecogarden
• Vine Neighborhood
     Community Garden
• Wall Street Community Garden
• Wellspring Community Garden
• YMCA Community Garden

Garden Hop:
community garden tour and scavenger hunt

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Garden Hop! We hope you enjoyed the Hop and learned something about the community gardens in the Kalamazoo area, and perhaps became inspired to try some new things in your own garden!

From the entry forms submitted for the scavenger hunt, we have drawn names for the prizes donated by our generous sponsors. Below is a list of the lucky winners.

• Nolan Hartman
  won a Family Membership to the Kalamazoo Nature Center
• Michelle Bouma
  won a Zen Garden Statue from Wenke Greenhouse
• Eva Wilcox
  won a $25 Gift Certificate & tee-shirt at Old Dog Tavern
• Leslie Gogel
  won a $20 Gift Certificate at People's Food Coop
• Jody Ickes
  won a $25 Gift Certificate at Riverstreet Flowerland
• Celine Keizer
  won a $25 Gift Certificate at Wenke Greenhouse
• Penny Cadwell
  won a copy of the book "Seedfolks" & 2 packages of seeds from People's Food Co-op
• Christy Gardener
  won a copy of the book "Seedfolks" & 2 packages of seeds from People's Food Co-op
• Cade Klein
  won an "Eat Local Kalamazoo" t-shirt from Fair Food Matters
• Ryan McKenzie
  won an "Eat Local Kalamazoo" t-shirt from Fair Food Matters

If you are on this list please stop by the Communty Garden Resource Shed” at 1519 E. Michigan Avenue in Kalamazoo on Saturday, September 1 between 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. to claim your prize. If you are unavailable during that time, please contact us to make arrangements for pickup (email: Info@CommonGroundKalamazoo.com

A special Thank You to our Sponsors!

These local businesses generously sponsored this year's Garden Hop:

For more information about Common Ground and it's programs, contact:
Catie Boring at the Kalamazoo County Land Bank
email: Info@CommonGroundKalamazoo.com
phone: (269) 216-9681