Registration for the 2023 garden season at the Hillcrest site is open!
Click here to go to the Registration Forms tab for detailed instructions.
Use this form –> 2023-Registration-OFFICIAL
BRCG Flyer
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Tri-fold Brochure
The Big Rapids Community Garden brochure is now available for download and sharing.
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2022 Registration Forms Available
Registration forms for 2022 are available for download and use. With the COVID-caused cessation of gardening last year, we are excited to begin 2022 by providing gardening opportunities for the Big Rapids Community.
Fill yours out today to reserve your garden box at the Hillcrest site.
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Ferris honors program volunteers
Members of the Ferris State Honors Program worked to fulfill their community service hours by cleaning up the Hillcrest site.
Ferris Honors students helped us move perennials from our 2nd Avenue site, which is closing, to our Hillcrest School site. They helped move tools, mow the Hillcrest site, and even built deer fencing around the new pollinator and perennial beds. Thank you to our wonderful volunteers. They accomplished amazing things in a few hours!
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Travis’s first garden bed
Travis is an Area 5 Special Olympics athlete in our community who wanted to start a garden this year to have “farm fresh” vegetables. He has been planting flowers at his apartment and had room for a few tomato plants, but Travis really wanted to try growing other vegetables this year, too. He says he loves his garden so much, and he’s very proud of how tall his tomatoes grew. They are the tallest in the gardens! A special thanks also goes out to his sister, Kelly, for helping Travis get started with his garden.
These garden beds, being enriched with compost, yield an average of two pounds of produce per square foot. While we have to put up fences around the garden beds to keep the deer out, even first-time gardeners can harvest lots of produce at the Big Rapids Community Garden.
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Location Update
Due to the COVID-19 closings and restrictions, the Big Rapids Community Garden site at the Big Rapids Community Library will not be available this growing season.
The Hillcrest site, though, is still available with open garden beds. The registration form for 2020 has been updated to reflect the current situation.
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2020 Registration Forms available
Let’s get this garden started!
2020 Registration forms are available for download, distribution and submittal.
Click here to jump to the Registration Page.
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Quick News
Due to expansion activities planned by the Housing Commission, the 2nd Avenue site will no longer be maintained. The garden boxes will be removed, allowing for planned construction to begin.
We are sorry to see the site go, as it has served the community well.
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2019 Garden Bed registration forms are now available
The 2019 Garden Bed Registration forms for the coming garden year are ready for download (click HERE) or you may swing by the Big Rapids Community Library and pick one up in person.
