Saturday Plant Sale @ Featherstone Downtown + SYNERGY: Garden Dance Party
#101: Spring Happenings @ Featherstone Garden
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Downtown Plant Sale Saturday 5/18
*PLEASE NOTE THIS IS AT OUR DOWNTOWN LOCATION, AND NOT OUR GARDEN ON LAKEPOINTE STREET IN MORNINGSIDE (EASTSIDE)
PLANT SALE ADDRESS:
600 Plum Street
Detroit, MI
48201
Join us for our first annual downtown seedling sale this Saturday from 9am-5pm. We will have lots of heirloom tomato plants as well as some classic pepper, basil, eggplant and flower seedlings.
*Park in the MGM parking garage on the corner of Third Street and Plum Street
SEEDLING VARIETIES:
Cherry Tomatoes: Gardener’s Delight, Sunrise Bumblebee, Indigo Cherry, Supersweet 100, Sunpeach, Yellow Pear, Chocolate Pear
Slicer Tomatoes: Black Krim, Cherokee Purple, Dr. Wyche
Green Zebra, Pink Tie Dye, Green Tie Dye , Ponderosa Pink, Gold Medal
Peppers: Habanero, Jalapeño, Anaheim, Poblano
Eggplant: Black Beauty, Turkish Delight, Patio Baby
Flowers: Marigolds, Celosia
Basil: Amethyst, Spicy Bush
Ann Arbor Plant Sale Sunday 5/19
@ Sweetwaters Coffee and Tea - Plymouth Green Cafe
Can’t make it to the plant sale on Saturday? Visit us on Sunday at Sweetwaters Plymouth Green Cafe from 11am-3pm.
Sweetwaters Coffee and Tea - Plymouth Green
3393 Plymouth Rd, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
SYNERGY: Summer is here, let’s dance under the sun and stars to celebrate!
Meet us at the Featherstone Garden Flower Cassette @ 600 Plum Street Detroit
SYNERGY is a pre-movement dance party with drinks and art installation curated with the fungi, algae and plants from the garden
8PM-10PM ART WORKSHOP
10PM-3AM DANCE PARTY
Food and Drink:
-Mexican food from Azulindo food truck
-Specialty cocktails and N/A beverages infused with Featherstone herbs and flowers
In the days following SYNERGY you can also find us getting groovy in the crowd at Detroit’s world renowned MOVEMENT Music Festival- taking place in Hart Plaza May 25-27.
Chili wants to see you at our plant sales and SYNERGY, meow!
Thanks for reading!
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Have a great week,
Annie, Ame, Aaron & Dolly
+ Chili, Bean, Ginger, Marigold & 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.