Resource Genesee

CITY/COUNTY: Flint, MI/Genesee County

ISSUE AREA: Health - Food Stability

SUMMARY:
Residents of Genesee County and Flint, Michigan are struggling with a food crisis. Therefore their collaborative has chosen to address the issue of health, working to strengthen the efforts of key partners striving to provide more food and healthier food to the needy through our largest soup kitchen, area food bank and quickly growing community gardens initiative with support coming from their RSVP program and the volunteer connector, Resource Genesee.

Their goal is to impact the community by ensuring that the North End Soup Kitchen's services, expanded in 2010, are sustained and to help more Genesee County residents connect to community gardens where they will learn modern gardening techniques and how to prepare fresh vegetables.

In an effort to meet the need for fresh fruits and vegetables a loosely organized coalition of individuals and institutions dedicated to creating and sustaining community gardens emerged as Edible Flint. To date, Edible Flint has knowledge of 180 non-residential community gardens on public land or land owned by the Genesee County Land Bank. Edible Flint, which has garnered national and international attention as the future of the urban agriculture movement, is supported by the Ruth Mott Foundation with funds and personnel and is a major partner in this work.

CONTACT: Julia Zaher
1401 S. Grand Traverse
Flint, MI 48503
(810) 232-6285
Julia@resourcegenesee.org

For more information on Resource Genesee, visit http://www.resourcegenesee.org/web/ .