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Tender Heart Gardens

A q***r and trans collective gardening space on Lansing's Eastside. Tender Heart Gardens is a q***r and trans collective gardening space in Lansing’s Eastside.

Gardeners and community members of all ages are invited to share their labor, skills, love, and support as we create beautiful things and grow delicious food. We are a non-hierarchical community group that values anti-racist, anti-capitalist resistance, while caring for each other and the land we work on.

09/14/2025

Join us for a garden tea party on Wednesday, September 24 at 6pm! We'll be making our own herbal tea blends, listening to live music by the fire, and sharing food.

Please bring your own mug, a French press or tea strainer if you have one, and a dish to share if you can!

07/04/2025

Q***r plant theatre!?! 🌈 🪴 🎭 That's right. Drama & plants, the two things q***rs love most. You're invited to join us in the garden for a casual q***r plant play read-along and potluck on Wednesday July 16th. Scripts will be provided free to all; come to act your heart out or just to lay back and listen. If you can: bring portable seating, a reusable beverage container, and a snack to share. Plant drag also encouraged.

Text over a photo of a purple iris and a water tower with a rainbow flag:

Q***rs Plant Play for Q***r Plant Plays
Tender Heart Gardens
Wednesday July 16th
6:30-8:30
707 S. Foster

-story time & bonfire
-q***r plant theatre (a real thing!) read along
-potluck
-come perform
-or just come to listen
-no performance experience necessary

04/25/2025

We're having a Beltane Celebration! Come join Tender Heart Gardens on April 30 at 707 S. Foster for garden ecology reflections at 6pm, a potluck at 7pm (please label your food ingredients!), and a bonfire at 8pm! We'll be decorating our trees with wishes, reading oracle cards, building an altar, and planting oats together!

Image description:

Colored pencil illustration by RioRock of Totoro-like figures having a picnic under a flowering tree. Text on the image reads "Beltane Celebration: Tender Heart Gardens / April 30 at 6pm / 707 S. Foster". Next to that text are the activities listed in the caption.

11/04/2024

Daylight savings has reminded us that it's getting too dark too early for weekday evening work days. We will not be meeting for work days at the garden on Thursdays for the rest of the year. Please continue to join us at work days on Sundays from 10-12 as we put the garden to bed for the winter!

Image description: "Thursday workdays have ended for the season! Find us on Sundays from 10am-12pm through the rest of Fall" over a blue background image of a frosty field. The Tender Heart Gardens logo is in the corner.

07/04/2024

Join us in the garden on Wednesday, July 17th, from 6:30-8:30pm, as Nicole hosts an Empathy and Communication Workshop. We’re eagerly looking forward to learning, connecting, and growing together!

06/23/2024

If you're curious about making textiles from wild-harvested fibers, join us during our Thursday work day on July 4 from 6-8. will be showing folks how to harvest from our wild stinging nettle patch and make cordage from nettle fiber!

Wear long sleeves and pants if you are planning to harvest (and gloves if you have some, but we've got a bunch if you don't), as these friends do in fact sting! The cordage processing isn't stingy, though, so folks who come underdressed can still participate.

06/08/2024

I'm not the bug guy at the garden, but even I can appreciate the high caliber of friends we've been making out here this season. If you want to make friends too, join us Thursdays 6-8 and Sundays 10-12 as we wrap up spring planting!

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05/31/2024

Potatoes are in! Bees are happy! Join us at our weekly work days on Thursdays from 6-8pm and on Sundays from 10-12!

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05/23/2024

We will NOT be in the garden this upcoming Sunday, May 26th. Looking forward to seeing y’all next Thursday, 6-8pm :)

05/14/2024

Folks of all skill-level are eagerly welcomed to join us as we begin our routine garden workdays this Thursday, May 16th!! 🌱

12/31/2023

THG's Winter Planning Potluck will be on Sunday, January 7 starting at 5pm (the actual meeting will start close to 5:30) at Morgan's house (DM for address), facilitated by and . This will be a space where gardeners (and prospective gardeners!) can discuss our plans for the 2024 season and reflect on how those plans fulfill our purpose of growing q***r kinship.

09/26/2023

Please join us for our Indigo Dyeing + Potluck this coming Sunday, October 1st at 6 PM

You are invited to bring animal fibers such as wool or silk that you would like to dye and a food to share as well. 💙

Address

707 S Foster
Lansing, MI
48912

Website

http://www.tenderheartgardens.com/

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