Service Day: Cut Your Own Tree at The Prairie, St. Joe Nature Area

Join us for a service day at St. Joe Nature Area and get a free scotch pine tree to take home!

We will be working in The Prairie, a botanical gem. We will pull and cut/treat buckthorn, oriental bittersweet and honeysuckle.

We will also be cutting some conifers, including scotch pines. Volunteers are welcome to take home a tree if they want!

Bring your own loppers, saw, and gloves, or use theirs. Bring a water bottle and plenty of energy!

There are bathrooms at the meeting area.

The Farm at St. Joe's was the first hospital-based farm in Michigan. The 2-acre farm has 2 hoop houses, a handicap accessible hoop house for therapy, community gardens, and an outdoor classroom. While The Farm produces about 10,000lbs of food annually, they are more concerned with growing a healthy community by empowering people through food, education, and relationships.
As part of their mission to create a just, robust local food system, The Farm has created the collaborative "Farm Share," a community supported agriculture program (CSA), which is offered at St. Joe's Ann Arbor and Oakland campuses. Farm Share members receive boxes of seasonal fruits and vegetables from local farms on a regular basis. The program generated $150,000 of revenue for local farms in 2020. Memberships are available for purchase on a sliding scale. Food insecure families are provided with free or reduced cost membership. Other programs include horticultural therapy, youth education, staff community gardens, and a produce to patients program.

Join the Farm as a farmshare member or volunteer and learn more about sustainable farming and healthy eating.

Attendees will be required to sign St. Joe's volunteer waiver.