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Because this garden’s in an elevated space, we want to make sure it’s accessible to everyone in the community.
So we’re going to be removing a section of this retaining wall here
and grading the ground
at about a one percent slope.
That way people can come up
and use these new beds that we were able to get from a grant
from the Michigan Disabilities Rights Coalition.
They granted us about twelve hundred dollars and we're creating
these two new “really raised” beds, based on the model that we had at Hunter Park
GardenHouse last year.
We have a “garden in a box”
project where youth
construct 2 by 2 raised garden boxes.
They go to folks with either
limited income
limited gardening experience or
limited mobility.
During this year in January
we put in paved walkways that allow for
for people to really easily move throughout the greenhouse.
Before it was wood-chip paths, and we’ve seen that people
with walkers or wheelchairs can really much more easily traverse
through the greenhouse space.
Particularly in our Americorps group, we seem to have a particular commitment in our service and our training
geared towards
inclusiveness and allowing everyone in the community
to be included in all of our service projects.
Thank you all so much. We really appreciate it, you did a lot of good in the community today. We have a lot of gardeners that are going to be able to enjoy this space now.
At Fenner we’re renovating our butterfly garden so that it can be accessible to more people,
it will be easier to walk, accessible to everyone. It’s going to be larger, there’s going to be areas to turn around in.
Inclusion is an approach, it’s an attitude, it’s a process.
It’s about making sure that we don’t just create a space
that might be a differently abled person’s garden.
We want to make sure that
all members of the community can come together in one spot and fully engage with each other.
And be able to build that community,
be healthy and make new friends.