2024-25 AAF&G Grant/Scholarship Recipients

Growing Hope: $1000 to further their teaching programs and plant vegetable seeds.

 

Project Grow: $800 to replace three deteriorating wooden raised beds with metal ones, add another, and prepare all for planting.

 

Ypsilanti District Library, Superior Branch: $2000 for a rain garden using native plants to solve drainage issue and extend usable outdoor space.

 

4-H/Washtenaw County Youth Center: $1200 to continue working with incarcerated youth on gardening projects and learning about horticulture.

 

4-H/The Farm at Trinity Health: $1000 to teach children ages 9-11 how to grow vegetables.

 

MSU Master Gardener Project/Garden Club at Clark East Tower: $1000 to teach residents about plants and growing techniques, and to actually grow seeds and seedlings.

 

Friends of Greenview/Pioneer Nature Area: $3500 for a prescribed burn in the meadow; to add native shrubs, aquatic plants, and wetland plants around the pond; to add apple trees to the edible garden; and to add more native shrubs and wildflowers to the pollinator garden.

 

MBGNA: $2280 to redesign and replant the bed by the west entrance to the Arboretum.

 

Community High School: $1700 to replace six deteriorating wooden beds with metal ones and prepare them for planting.

 

Refugee Garden Initiatives: $5000 to expand their cultivated area to include more culturally significant produce, herbs, and flowers; to add ten metal raised beds; and to teach participants how to grow plants.

 

Scholarship for UM Biological Station: $2000

Scholarship for UM SEAS: $1500

Total awarded: $22,980