Edible Avalon
Edible Avalon is our community gardening program, bringing organic community gardening on-site to fifteen of our properties.
If you are looking for more information about our Youth Program, including lesson plans, please click here!
Edible Avalon at a Glance
- Started as a single community garden in 2008, there are now gardens at 14 Avalon Housing properties
- Over 3,200 pounds of fresh, organic produce were grown by tenants in 2011
- A corps of volunteers visit gardens weekly to share recipes & garden skills
- Cooking classes and food preservation workshops
- Youth programming centered on out local foodshed and sustainable gardening
- Nutrition and health-related programming reaches over 450 Avalon tenants
Edible Avalon is much more than just a gardening program. Each year, we’ve added programming intended to improve health and nutrition outcomes among tenants, build community, increase skill sets, provide leadership opportunities, and empower participants to become more self-reliant and able to build on their successes. Tenants are involved in the program as site coordinators, teachers, and mentors.
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Volunteer with us!
Click here to check out our positions for 2012. We have opportunities that range from day-long workdays, to long-term Garden Coordinator positions.
If you are interested in volunteering with us, please fill out an Edible Avalon Volunteer Application.
Contact kriskaul@yahoo.com to get on our Gardening Gang volunteer email list for updates throughout the year.
Don’t have time to volunteer, but still want to get involved and help? Check out our Edible Avalon supplies wish list and help provide the supplies we need!
You can hear how fun and rewarding it is to be part of the program directly from some of our current volunteers:
Check out our garden locations throughout Ann Arbor:
View Edible Avalon Community Gardens in a larger map
Edible Avalon is made possible in part by the generous support of
- Pfizer
- The Knight Foundation
- Fendt Builders’ Supply Inc.
- Ann Arbor Women’s Farm & Garden Association
- Zingerman’s - Michael Pollan Event
- Ann Arbor Garden Association
- High Mowing Organic Seeds
- Fingerle Lumber of Ann Arbor
- Ann Arbor Downtown Home & Garden
- Growing Hope of Ypsilanti
- AmeriCorps VISTA
- Dorothy Nordness
- Bagel Fragel
- Silvio’s Organic Pizza
- The Home Depot
- Locavorious
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For a printable handout with more information, please click here.
Comments or questions? Contact the Program Coordinator, Kris Kaul:
- KrisKaul@yahoo.com
- 734-644-1520