What We Do

Strategic Landscapes

Green Infrastructure is a term used to describe the network of planned and managed green spaces which work together to benefit a community’s social, economic and environmental health.  Our Green Infrastructure programming began with organized tree and shrub planting projects in parks and along city streets and grew to include broad scale projects specifically designed to maximize benefits to the people living in the neighborhoods where we work. We work with hundreds of community partners in Detroit, Hamtramck and Highland Park to improve parks, beautify neighborhoods and create useful landscapes from vacant land. And our involvement doesn’t stop there. We continue to affect long term planning for greening and revitalization in Detroit by lending a hand and offering our expertise to government agencies and corporations throughout the city.

For more information, please contact Dean Hay at dean.hay@greeningofdetroit.com
Urban Agriculture And Open Space

Our urban gardening and agriculture programs play a key role in Detroit’s blossoming green movement.  Every year, the garden resource program contributes farming resources and educational opportunities to over 15,000 urban gardeners, supporting over a thousand gardens in Detroit, Hamtramck and Highland Park.

For more information, please contact Ashley Atkinson at ashley@greeningofdetroit.com or visit http://detroitagriculture.net.

Education

We believe in hands-on learning. By using the outdoors as classroom laboratories, students learn from highly skilled teachers who have gone through our extensive life science training program and workshops. The students often participate in environmental service projects where they have a chance to leave a thumbprint in their neighborhood and larger community. And in the summer we continue our mission by hosting Camp Greening for kids to unearth nature and explore the outdoors.

For more information, please contact Sarah Halson at sarah@greeningofdetroit.com
Workforce Development: Green Jobs

We take an active role in training Detroit youth and adults for green jobs in forestry, agriculture and landscaping…  Our workforce development program provides both certification and hands-on job training for more than 120 adults annually. And every summer we employ more than 200 young people on planting projects.

For more information, please contact Lionel Bradford at lionel.bradford@greeningofdetroit.com
Technical Assistance

Our interest in the environment impacts and extends beyond Detroit and its boundaries.  We offer technical assistance in the form of workshops, tools and resourcing on topics from open space architecture, urban agriculture, community tree plantings and youth employment programming to the surrounding region and beyond.