Sowing The Seeds
Community-building is in full bloom
at Eden Gardens.
etroit's Eden Gardens
support from the Jewish Women's
Block Club and the
Foundation, we will continue toward
Isaac Agree Downtown
our goal of developing leaders and
Synagogue began an
allies in Eden Gardens and in the
experiment last fall. We planned
broader Jewish community.
volunteer days, cleaned up three
This summer, the Eden Gardens
city lots and planted cover crop on
Block Club is raising money to
the future site of our
support a youth internship,
community garden.
which will teach life skills
Over the winter
such as growing, cooking
months, while the
and eating healthy food,
garden slept, we
building strong relationships
"Built a Bridge over
between youth and adults,
Dinner," where leaders
and connecting with those
from both of our
of different ethnicity and
communities came
religions.
BLAIR N OSAN
together to discuss
We're hoping also to
what we would like
invite Jewish teens and
to see in the garden, to begin
young adults into the garden this
to build a relationship between
coming season, so that youth from
Metro Detroit Jews and blacks,
both of our communities can have
and to discuss our interest in youth
an opportunity to learn from one
leadership and empowerment.
another and begin to undo the
In the coming months and years,
misconceptions and assumptions we
we envision robust programming for
too often make about others. Our
engaging neighborhood and Jewish
vision is that all volunteerism is an
young adults: a full farm, a hoop
opportunity to build relationships.
house, chickens, a neighborhood
The Block Club will be taking the
center, as well as a broad strategy
lead on a summer kick-off party,
to knock down walls and build
where we're hoping to have a DJ spin-
bridges as we do incredible work on
off between Isaac Agree Downtown
Detroit's east side.
Synagogue and Eden Gardens!
We're just beginning our second
We're so excited to be embarking
season in the garden, which is
on a second season of growing our
actually going to be our first full
food and growing our souls. Eden
season. As of April 4, we resumed
Gardens Farm's mission will be to
our garden workdays and will be
nourish people, community, and the
digging in the dirt every Thursday
land, cultivate relationships, explore
from 5-8 p.m. We'll be celebrating
and preserve food traditions, and
Lag B'Omer with a workday and
enrich the spirit. ❑
campfire in collaboration with
Oak Park-based Congregation
To sign up to hear about weekly
T'Chiyah on April 28. And come
volunteer nights via email, contact
summer, we're planning for a whole
Blaireliz@gmail.com or
lot of excitement. With generous
chavaavbraham@gmail.com .
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