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The Treehouse Community Garden was started in 2012 by a small group of friends who are passionate about seeing healthy food reach the tables of people in the Baxter neighborhood which was labeled a food desert. We were very blessed with support, we raised over $20,000 in labor and materials for the garden space. There are more than 10 families that are currently receiving fresh, seasonal produce weekly, and we have dreams of feeding more. We hope to further utilize the space that we have to create maximum food growth per square foot.
The funds raised during our last campaign helped to pay off taxes, for the production of our beautiful video, consulting and deconstruction of the current home.
This is West Michigan's 1st Registered Living Building Challenge and LEED for Homes V4 project which will challenge the local building codes and accomplish Net Zero Energy, capture and clean it's own rain/waste water and be constructed out of natural & local materials such as strawclay which will passively capture the sun's heat for the home.
All of your financial donations will be run through a local non-profit called The Alliance for Environmental Sustainability. We are also partnering with a start up non-profit called Homes of Hope. Both of these organizations are vital in making this project a reality. We are extremely grateful for all the wonderful people already involved.
Here is the preliminary floor plan of the main level community space!
Here we go!
We are very excited to be a part of something so beautiful. It is an unreal experience to dream about the best possible life you could live and watch as it comes to fruition. We want to take this little space on the interweb to say that your contribution and support means the world to us. We sincerely could not do this without your help, and we are so full of gratitude that you would consider coming along side of us. You are a part of making the world a more beautiful place. We also want you to know that we are very committed to our neighborhood. We have longterm dreams for our space and we believe that creating a lasting change, along with building relationships takes time. We would also like to let you know that this project is going to cost more than $50,000. We are hoping a big portion of the cost will be covered by donation of labor and materials. Hopefully both the money we raise here and the donations we receive will cover the cost of building this home.
If you'd like to talk to us, hear more about what we are doing, or just chat about life, then let's go for tea :)
Here are a few links if you are interested in learning more:
www.thenestgr.com // our home website.
www.treehousegarden.wordpress.com // our garden website.
http://homesofhopemi.blogspot.com/ Homes of Home MI Blog
www.alliancees.org // the non-profit that has come along side of us.
www.living-future.org/lbc // the living building challenge website.
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