The St. Francis Sustainable Garden Project supports the hungry, at-risk children and their families in our area. We use a garden plot in front of the St. Francis rectory where we grow and harvest herbs, vegetables and flowers. In past years each harvest has produced over 180 lbs. of produce- all delivered to the pantry at Foundations Preschool of Ann Arbor, - child care center for at-risk, low-income families.

The St. Francis Grounds & Botanical Gardens: Several gardens surround the St Francis of Assisi campus of buildings, including, but not limited to, the church, school, rectory and/or parish offices. These gardens need to be a beautiful expression of hospitality, in particular, the entrances, to our fellow parishioners and visitors as well as reflect a statement of our appreciation for God's creation and nature.

Questions? Contact: Scott Wright (734-821-2121)

THANK YOU: St Francis of Assisi Grounds and Grooming Cleanup Day May 6 (Saturday: 9 am - 12 pm)

Our prayers were answered in many ways, a beautiful sunshine and comfortable morning (after 2 days of gray, cloudy, pouring rain), and a solid group of Scouts and Knights of Columbus volunteers and more parishioners to clear, clean, prune, hedge, sweep, spread, mulch, dig, edge selected areas at the front of the church, parish offices and rectory.

In particular, kudos, to Brian Biggs who singlehandedly moved and distributed all 180+ bags of mulch.  We also appreciate the efforts of Grand Knight Josh Peck and his son Patrick, and the many, many scouts and parents, including Laura, Freddy and Greg Babe, Lon, Jacob, Alex and Quinn Lowen, Matt and sons Grant and Ryan and scout Carl as well as parishioner gardening regulars, Edd Post, Amy Kilbourne, Susan Bass, Jane Antosiak, and Terry MacLean. (I apologize for any misspellings or missing names).

Here are snapshots of the accomplished work:

A beautiful Saturday Morning


Brian Biggs and Josh and Patrick Peck at the end of the morning


Weeded the Church Back Entrance West



Refreshing around the Bell Tower/Carillon


Refreshing mulch left and right of front church steps

Weeding, clearing leaves, removing tossed flagstones and respreading mulch disturbed by winter snow removal curbside east at church front steps


Hedging the yews and spirea at church front steps and removing invasive tree saplings


New mulch at left church front steps curbside


More blooms and cleanup in the Mary Garden at church rear entrance east


Removing old mulch, spreading 30 bags of fresh top soil and spreading attractive pine bark mulch across all parish office entrance beds 


Complete hedging of row of yews on southside of parish office so staff can view the gardens better


Refreshing wood chips for outdoor classroom southside hill in pine trees from parish office
 

Continuing to remove invasive old English Ivy and refreshing pine bark much across the entire front  and northside of the Rectory


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