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Garden Resource Club (GRC)

The GRC is a club of gardeners of varying skills and abilities who are connecting to growing food, flowers and medicine together. It is completely free to join, and we ask our members to re-join every year for the new season so we can prepare the resources needed.

Join Today

    • We stay informed with a weekly newsletter sharing events, volunteer opportunities and resources.

    • We offer exclusive resource access to Club members, like soil and compost drops.

    • We have monthly member meetings where we share food and our garden triumphs and questions, seeds and stories.

    • GRC Members get exclusive early access to our annual organic Transplant Sale.

  • All are welcome! You do not have to be a Pontiac resident to join, but our activities are generally focused on Pontiac sites.

  • All you have to do is fill out THIS FORM and you’re a member! You’ll receive regular updates about upcoming classes, free resources, and more!

“[The Garden Resource Club] helped me to start my garden. The network motivated me to build my capacity as a grower and share my enthusiasm with friends and family ”
— Garden Resource Club Member
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Interested in what we’re up to? Check out our events!

View our 2026 calendar
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Join Our Farm Work Days

And help us make a bigger impact.

Weekly Farm Days are scheduled to support Mucha Fruta Farm and provide garden skills classes! Join us every second and fourth Thursday, 6:00 - 7:30 pm, beginning May 28th, 2026.

We’re a nonprofit that relies on donations to help make Pontiac a better place to live and eat. But we understand that donating money isn’t always possible. If you’d like to support our work, consider donating your time as a volunteer! You can help spread the word, share your gardening knowledge, or pitch in however you’re able.

Get Connected

Ways to Financially Support Our Work

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We’re grateful for all forms of support, time being one of the greatest. But to continue doing the work of providing low-cost and free programming and materials, grant funding and financial contributions are necessary — here are ways you can keep the work going!

  • Kroger Community Rewards: If you are a Kroger shopper, sign up to share Community rewards with us! Just log in to your online Kroger account, head to your profile and on the left select "Community Rewards". Search for Growing Pontiac and select us to share your Kroger points as a quarterly cash donation!

Side walls are up! It feels like summer in the prophouse 🥹 that means we are getting into water-twice-day season! DM us if you are local to Pontiac and are interested in learning how to help water these lil guys on our Watering Team until our BIG pl
Heads up! Our next greenhouse volunteer day is 4/16! We will be putting basil, brassicas (kale, collards, mustard), chard, and flowers into trays for our big annual plant sale on May 14th and 15th! This is both seated and standing, fine motor work.
Do y'all know about our friend Juls? We are lifting her up because she is an outstanding community member. She is mega multi-talented and ALWAYS there to lend a hand. Juls is managing stocking our seed library this season at @pontiacpubliclibrary. Y
Thank you everyone for coming to this whirlwind tray-up session in the greenhouse!!! We couldn't do it without you 🥲 all of tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, half of our flowers and herbs are all complete! Next up: fast growing flowers, okra, gandules,
Volunteer with us! It's time to put tiny tomato seedlings in their trays <3 DM us with accessibility questions! This work is best for kids 10 and up.
Did you know we have a FREE club in Pontiac dedicated to helping gardeners of all skill levels to connect and learn to grow food, flowers and medicine for the whole ecological community? Join us at the link in the bio! We can't wait to share our fre
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Check it out! We would love to meet you! Email hello@growingpontiac.org with questions.
Happy Spring Equinox! Leave your leaves and stems until *nights* are over 50 degrees for a week to protect the invertebrate friends who live in our gardens ❤️ Onward, to longer days!
Seed sorting party tonight! Our March Member Meet Up is a volunteer opportunity: we will be sorting retail seed packets by variety so we can more easily stock our Pontiac Seed Library at the @pontiacpubliclibrary This is seated work (or standing,
Can you believe it's March?! So much is happening! - Pontiac Public Library SEED LIBRARY Is stocked! Swing through for free seeds in the lobby. Let us know if ya wanna volunteer ;) - Some seeds are germinating at the @micah6community prophouse! Stay
Getting started in the greenhouse soon! Big thank you to @micah6community , @mothership_reconnection and @healthy.futures.ofs for helping us load 80 bags of soilless mix in this weather!