Our 80^th Season Begins!!

Monthly Meeting

Keeping Our Rivers Clean, One Rain Garden at a Time

Thursday, Sept. 10, 11:30 am

Ann Arbor City Club

September draws near, and that can mean only one thing – it’s Farm & Garden season! We look forward to welcoming everyone back from wonderful summer adventures for our educational programs, committee work and social activities. We’re offering new lunch menu options along with our traditional friendly fellowship.

Our September meeting focuses on rain gardens. Rain gardens serve the greater good, and are practical solutions for basement and yard flooding. Anyone can plant a rain garden! You don’t need special equipment – just a yard, a spade, compost and a few plants. A beautiful addition to any landscape, rain gardens also help keep our rivers, lakes and streams clean.

Local Rain Garden expert Susan Bryan will talk about the benefits of rain gardens and how to build and plant one at your own home. Susan created and teaches the Master Rain Gardener class at the Washtenaw County Water Resources Commissioner’s Office. More than 2,000 rain gardens have been built by homeowners on her advice by Master Rain Gardeners.

Registration is open until midnight, Thursday Sept. 3.

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Tool Shed

Grant Recipients Take the Spotlight

Great things are growing around here, thanks to community support for the Farm & Garden mission. Visit our new Spotlight page and find out what some of our recent grant recipients are doing!

In the Spotlight

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Several F&G members have recently had their Gmail accounts hacked. If you are included in their Contacts list, you may receive emails, purportedly from them, with an attached document or event invitation. Do NOT click on anything and delete the email as spam! For a deeper dive into email spoofing, phishing and impersonation, this Mailmodo article provides detailed information and actions you can take to protect your accounts from these digital bad guys.

Get to know Ann Arbor Farm & Garden!

We’re a welcoming, active group of learners, doers, explorers, and leaders,

passionate about sharing and promoting the many benefits of gardens and gardening with each other and our community.

We raise money for annual grants and scholarships, expand our gardening and environmental knowledge,

and share beauty with others through garden tours and flower therapy. In the process, we create strong social connections and lifelong friendships.

Flowers – Friends – Food – Gardens – Giving

AAF&G members enjoy them all. Join us!

Get to know Ann Arbor Farm & Garden!

Flowers – Friends – Food – Gardens – Giving

Giving

Membership

Learning

Flower Therapy