NFL Draft Party, Makers Market & Tomato Seedlings
#98: Spring Happenings @ Featherstone Garden
Welcome to Featherstone’s Garden Happenings Newsletter, where we share our garden updates, plant and fungi-forward recipes, details about our farmstand and onsite events, cat pics, & more. As a subscriber, you will be the first to know about our Garden Happenings. If you’re not a newsletter subscriber but would like to be, click below to signup.
Join us for a NFL Draft Party at our Downtown Garden TOMORROW
The NFL draft is here, along with the opening of our downtown garden’s indoor picnic and community space. Join us on Thursday April 25 from 7pm-11pm to watch the first round of the draft followed by moonlight musical performance by Brittney B. Hayden, an a set by DJ Mellow Yellow.
Proceeds from the event benefit our partners at Motor City Grounds Crew and support their work beautifying Detroit green spaces + operating the East Warren Tool Library.
*Parking is free at the MGM parking garage on Third Street and Plum Street
Visit our Downtown Marketplace this Friday and Saturday
Stop by our community market to support local makers!
Featherstone Garden Downtown: 600 Plum Street Detroit
4/26 & 4/27
12-4pm
Vendors and Goods
Featherstone Garden: honey, tea blends, herb salt, mushroom grow kits, microgreens, powdered lion’s mane mushrooms, hibiscus tea and iced coffee
Treats by Chef Biana: wholesome, yummy sweet treats
Uncle El Sauce: locally made hot sauce
Nepantla Mexican Street Food: the best food truck in town
*Parking is free at the MGM parking garage on Third Street and Plum Stree
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May Mushrooms and Microgreens: 4-week Subscription
Sign up today to enjoy mushrooms and microgreens throughout the month of May! Visit our website for details!
Pre-Order Heirloom Tomato Seedlings
Don’t forget to order your Featherstone Tomato Seedlings. Seedlings include cherry and slicer varieties: sungold, sunrise bumblebee, pink bumblebee, indigo cherry, gardener’s delight, sweetie, evil olive, black krim, green zebra, gold medal, Cherokee purple, mushroom basket, black strawberry, yellow pear, and more!
When you pickup, you can choose the varieties you would like!
Seedling Pickup:
May 11-12 from 10am-4pm
Featherstone Downtown
600 Plum Street, Detroit
Spring Things
By: Farmer Annie
Spring garden planning and planting is a bit chaotic, and everyday I can’t help but feel like I’m running behind. A few years ago a fellow farmer shared a mantra that helps me stay grounded at the garden: “I’m doing my best, and that’s all I can do”.
So far I have hand seeded thousands of plant babies- one seed at a time. The heated downtown greenhouse has 100 tomato plants in-ground (over 18 heirloom varieties), which should produce fruit by mid-June. This weekend we will plant our MorningSide greenhouse with another 120 lovely little tomato plants and their companions, marigolds, basil, alyssum, snapdragons, and cosmos. Starting June 1 the rest of our seedlings will move outdoors; the combination of seeding, bed prep, planting, irrigation setup, farm cat care and organic pest control at two locations keeps our little team so busy, and chronically a bit overwhelmed.
When I take a step back I remember that Aaron, Ame, Alya, Dolly, Beckie, Brent and our wonderful family, friends, and volunteers are the best support system that the plants, mushrooms and I could ask for. Another year of celebrating nature, our community, and the plants and fungi that nourish our bodies and souls is well underway!
Thanks for reading!
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Have a great week,
Annie, Ame, and Aaron
+ Chili, Bean, Ginger & Fig (our farm cats ₍˄·͈༝·͈˄₎◞ ₍˄·͈༝·͈˄₎◞₍˄·͈༝·͈˄₎◞,₍˄·͈༝·͈˄₎◞)
Rooted in Waawiyatanong (Detroit), Featherstone garden is a femme and minority owned business that is dedicated to land stewardship and growing produce year-round for neighbors and local restaurants. As an all-natural operation, the garden intercrops veggies, herbs, fungi, and flowers that complement each other as companions, nurture soil and beneficial insects, and contribute to a healthy urban ecosystem. At both their downtown and MorningSide locations, Featherstone offers space for the community to enjoy the healing benefits of gardening and consuming plant and fungi-forward foods.