Bloom Gardens exists to transform Detroit's Joe Louis Greenway into a living network of community gardens that provide fresh food, hands-on education, and spaces for connection. Our mission is to activate vacant land and underutilized spaces into hubs of sustainable food access, youth empowerment, and community pride. By blending urban agriculture with digital coordination, we are building a resilient network that nourishes both people and neighborhoods for generations to come.
Transforming the Joe Louis Greenway into Detroit's premier urban agriculture network
A Detroit where every neighborhood has access to fresh, locally-grown food and where communities are connected to share resources and knowledge.
We envision the Joe Louis Greenway as the backbone of Detroit's urban agriculture movement—a 27.5-mile corridor where food security, community connection, and environmental stewardship come together.
As our first active community hub
By 2028 along the Joe Louis Greenway
To support planting, maintenance, and events
To nearby residents, starting with the Green Lawn community
These principles guide everything we build and every decision we make along the Joe Louis Greenway
Every Garden we build serves the real needs of Detroit's communities.
We measure success by community growth, volunteer engagement, and food produced.
Our platform is open-source, transparent, and built with community input from other gardeners.
We build for long-term impact, environmental responsibility, and community resilience.
The Joe Louis Greenway is Detroit's newest and most ambitious green infrastructure project—a 27.5-mile corridor that will connect 23 neighborhoods through parks, gardens, bike paths, and community spaces.
Bloom Gardens is strategically positioned along this transformative corridor, creating a network of urban gardens that serve as community hubs for food access, education, and connection.
Our gardens are more than just growing spaces—they're nodes in a larger network of community resilience, environmental stewardship, and social connection along the Joe Louis Greenway.
Bloom was started by three young Detroiters who grew up in the heart of a food desert. Living in a community where access to fresh produce was limited, we realized that if we wanted healthy food and a thriving neighborhood, we had to create it ourselves.
What began as a vision to grow our own food has evolved into a mission to empower our community to do the same. We are starting small, with two lots along the Joe Louis Greenway, building spaces where neighbors can learn about gardening, sustainability, and self-reliance.
Bloom is more than just gardens—it's a growing digital platform designed to connect people to resources, teach sustainable practices, and showcase the impact of local efforts. Our goal is simple: help Detroiters take control of their food, their land, and their future, one garden at a time.