SPRING CHICKEN FUNDRAISER AND BONFIRE

Each year, as the earth tips toward longer days, The Joy Project gathers around a shared table to begin again.

The Spring Equinox marks a moment of balance — equal light and dark — and we honor it the way our ancestors often did: by cooking, by feeding one another, by making sure no one steps into a new season alone.

For a $30 donation, you’ll receive:

• Brown Stew Chicken — slow-simmered in a deep, caramelized gravy with thyme, scallion, allspice, and sweet pepper. Tender, rich, and meant to be eaten with your hands and your whole heart.
• Rice & Peas — coconut-scented rice cooked with kidney beans, garlic, and herbs. A grounding companion to the stew.
• Seasonal Green Salad — crisp greens to remind us what’s emerging from the soil right now.
• Sorrel Beverage — ruby red hibiscus steeped with warming spices. Tart, bright, and restorative — a drink of celebration and circulation.

This dinner is more than a meal. It’s how we fund seeds, soil amendments, youth programming, storytelling gatherings, and the quiet daily work of tending land and each other.

Your contribution helps us:

• Prepare the soil for planting
• Launch our fourth growing season
• Maintain our seed library
• Keep the garden accessible and welcoming to our community

When you donate, you’re not just buying dinner.
You’re investing in land stewardship, food sovereignty, and a Detroit rooted in memory and possibility.

Come eat. Come gather. Come help us begin again.

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

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