Garden Tour

GLFB’s Garden Project — one of the oldest community garden programs in the country — has a long tradition of celebrating the growing season with its annual Garden Tour event. The event consists of three separate tours that occur simultaneously, allowing participants to travel to local community gardens by bus, bike or foot. Each tour showcases how gardens improve health and nutrition, build community and create a more vibrant Lansing.  

Plan to join us next year to explore the diversity of Lansing’s gardening scene and meet the gardeners who make it happen.  

Garden Tour 2024

Tuesday, Aug. 6 | 6 – 8 p.m.

Thank you to everyone who attended the 2024 event!

Event details

  • All tours begin and end at the Garden Project Resource Center at 2401 Marcus St. in Lansing’s Foster Park. Join us after the conclusion of your tour for an ice cream treat courtesy of Meijer Capital City Market!
  • Please arrive approximately 15 minutes early, as tours start promptly at 6 p.m.!
  • While the event is free to attend, donations in support of Garden Project’s mission to make garden education and the ability to grow your own fresh, nutritious produce accessible to all can be made here.
  • Bring water, insect repellant and walking shoes, and be sure to dress for the weather.
  • Service animals are welcome, but please leave pets at home — your neighbors’ growing plants thank you!

2024 Garden Tour routes

Bus tour (19 miles round-trip)

Google map

  1. Averill Woods School & Community Garden | 3201 Averill Dr., Lansing, MI 48911
  2. Webster Farm Community Garden | 5518 Hughes Rd., Lansing, MI 48911
  3. St. Mike’s Community Garden | 6500 Amwood Dr., Lansing, MI 48911

Bike tour (9.8 miles round-trip)

Google map

  1. Clifford Park Community Garden | 550 E. Mt. Hope Ave., Lansing, MI 48910
  2. Capital City Apartments Garden | 3200 S. Washington Ave., Lansing, MI 48910
  3. St. Casimir/Moore’s Park Community Garden | 723 W. Barnes Ave., Lansing, MI 48910

Walking tour (1 mile)

Google map

  1. Paradise Community Garden | 550 S. Foster Ave., Lansing, MI 48912
  2. Michigan Aynoka Project | 521 S. Hayford Ave., Lansing, MI 48912
  3. Ingham County Land Bank Lot | Corner of S. Hayford Ave. and Elizabeth St., Lansing, MI 48912
  4. Eastside Compost |  300 Mifflin Ave., Lansing, MI 48912
  5. Garden Project Demonstration Garden | 516 S. Foster Ave., Lansing, MI 48912

2024 event photos

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2023 event photos

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Garden Project is grateful to our community partners for their generous support of Garden Tour 2024

 

 

 

 

If you would like to support this year’s event, please contact zachary@glfoodbank.org. Thank you!