Ryan Street Community Garden received a generous grant from Superior Health Foundation in 2019.This funded much needed updates to Ryan House and enabled us to continue our sustainability education programming. Many new updates were added to the Ryan House this year including a new back door, a beautiful table made by High Rocks in Calumet, a garden library donated from Finlandia University, whiteboard, and canning supplies for our kitchen classes. We replaced much needed gardening supplies, put in a new butterfly garden bed in the front of the house, and added blueberry bushes!
The Superior Health Foundation grant allowed us to continue offering free canning classes hosted by MSU educator Beth Waitrovich.  |
| July Strawberry Preserves Class |
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| August dilly bean class |
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| Delicious roasted carrot and ginger soup |
This fall Molly Cavaleri and her mother Roseann Terry from Rosian Catering hosted a soup-making class using immersion blenders.
We partnered with BHK Ryan Center Preschool again this summer. We helped the children grow their own seedlings in the classroom and transplant them into their playground garden bed. They helped water all summer. In August they came to Ryan House for a field trip and shared a meal made from the harvest. Thank you to all the volunteers who made this possible!  |
| BHK Preschool Harvest Field Trip |
Finlandia Baseball team volunteers showed up in full force this Fall.
Ryan Street Community Garden relies on volunteers and sponsors. Thank you for all your support!