On the cool and breezy Wednesday evening of June 24, a crowd of about 50 neighbors and Huss Project enthusiasts gathered on 8th Street. It was Huss' first Community Fun Extravaganza of the summer and we were ready for fun! Throughout the many different activities that happened -- including crafting, playing sports on the back field, puzzling, gardening in...
Our garden tower, gifted to the Huss garden by a generous friend, is chock full of onions, nasturtium and salad greens....
Rob primes the wood for new signs for the garden and summer activities. The wood panels are repurposed from cubicles that had been used for in-school suspension and the wood posts are repurposed from old pallets....
These winter peas were planted last fall as a cover crop while the garden lay dormant. Winter peas add nitrogen-rich biomass to the soil and offer great weed control, making them an ideal plant to help soil health. And when they flower in late spring / early summer, they're quite beautiful, too! Thank you Henry and...
The Huss Garden at the Huss Project is growing again! We've added extra space in the garden to grow vegetables this season and we're hoping to grow more good food than ever before. The produce we grow is distributed through our agency partners at Keystone Place, Domestic and Sexual Assault Abuse Services, and the Community Kitchen at...
Last year, the Community Economic Development Association of Michigan (CEDAM) gave the Huss Project a grant for $800 to build eight picnic tables. So we were excited when they mentioned the possibility of being featured in an upcoming episode of The Bright Side, a video series highlighting good projects around our state. The good folks at CEDAM...
What do Outsiders, Magic, Showdowns, and Turning Points have in common? These are the themes for our series of 2015 storytelling nights! Need more? Have you ever felt like your were on the outside looking in? Have you ever known anyone who didn't seem to belong? That's our kickoff theme for the first storytelling night. Stories...
*cino volunteer staffer Deborah Haak at last summer's Farmers Market. The Huss Project is once again participating in the Three Rivers Farmers Market! Join us from 1:00 to 6:00 p.m. every Thursday from May 28 to September 3 to purchase fresh, local produce to support the Huss Project. On June 11, July 9 and August 6,...
*culture is not optional, the parent organization of the Huss Project, recently received a $2,500 grant from Omni Community Credit Union to help pay for an outdoor pavilion that will be constructed on the north end of the building this year. This funding comes alongside a $2,000 grant received last year from the Three Rivers...
As part of a Community Visioning process in Three Rivers, Michigan, the Huss Project was invited to present our project for consideration as a community priority moving into the future. After a short 2-minute presentation during the second session, we received enough votes from the community to be invited back for a longer 10-minute presentation...
People keep telling us that we should start a restaurant. To quote one satisfied Supper Club attendee, "You guys are the best restaurant in Three Rivers!" Even said glibly, this is a comment that has stuck with us. We would never sell short the efforts of those restauranteurs already established in our fine city, but...
The garden at the Huss Project has become something special for the folks involved in and around the school. We find ourselves continuing to learn more about the process of growing food, of sharing that food, and what it means in the context of what we're trying to do at Huss. The arm of that endeavor...
