"This Old House" to film at the Georgia Street Garden!

**Blueidone** · July-15-09, 09:24 PM

Reminder Bump...anyone who would like to help out with the Clean-Up on Saturday from Noon to 4 is welcome to join us. Please bring some rakes and/or shovels. If we get the garden done, we may move into doing some work on the house as well, so hammers and such will be useful also.

Hope to see you this weekend!

**reddog289** · July-15-09, 11:55 PM

God I wish I was as reliable in my free time as I am at work. I do need to get to alot of things including the GS garden.

**Blueidone** · July-19-09, 11:37 AM

First of all, let me say a great big THANK YOU to those who came out to help clean up the Garden on Saturday. We got so much accomplished with the help of the generous volunteers. The sidewalks look great! The raised beds and most of the garden furniture were painted in the blue, green and white colors of our logo. Garden beds were cleaned out of weeds. It was a very productive day!

Now, on to the bad news. Unfortunately, the producers of "This Old House" have determined that the Georgia Street Garden does not "fit in" with the story line they are following. Evidently, they want to show more about neighborhoods that were affected by foreclosures, which was not conveyed to us at the beginning. We were told they wanted to show more positive things that were happening around the City.

However, we still cleaned up the Garden because in early August we will be a stop on a tour of urban gardens in Detroit. More information about this will be posted on our website shortly.

Again, thanks to all the volunteers who came out to help. Pics will be posted on the website in a day or two.

Happy Sunday everyone!

**sumas** · July-20-09, 04:11 AM

Glad to hear that volunteers showed up to groom the gardens. We did manage to drop off the promised herbs but couldn't stay to help out. We are working hard in our off time to restore a friends' house/gardens in Islandview Village. We thought about you all as we trimmed trees, layed sod, applied mulch and more. We are doing this project a little at a time. As everyone knows, supplies are expensive. We decided we would invest a little each week and spread the cost out over a period of time. It is starting to look great too! As a Detroit resident, I love seeing any and all improvements in our community. Next year we will restore the kitchen garden and plant a row for Gleaners. Best wishes to all who volunteered. Georgia Street Gardens is so worthy of peoples efforts. Just wish we could do more!