Food is Medicine 2024
“Let food be thy medicine.”
Our bodies are amazing machines that require proper nourishment
The Detroit Abloom Outdoor Wellness Garden specializes in teaching about the significance of a healthy and wholesome plant-based diet. The world is finally waking up to the truth that a meat-centered diet causes many kinds of preventable chronic and fatal diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and auto-immune-deficiency-related disorders, just to name a few. Because these diseases are rampant in our communities, both in the Grosse Pointes and in Detroit, we are making a special effort to teach people how to joyfully transition to a healthy, delicious, and life-sustaining whole food plant-based diet.
We will have different instructors focusing on different healthy food and sometimes, ethnic dishes! This summer dinner series includes a presentation delving into the subject matter and a community meal at our 32’ Community Table. 5:30 -7 pm at 248 Manistique St. at the pavilion!
Meet Justine Schneider, DA Board Member and director of Food is Medicine https://www.instagram.com/properlyforked/?hl=en
Food is Medicine 2025 -
We are currently working on the 2025 FIM Schedule. Check out the following 2024 schedule.
2025 Class List -
Come join us for a meal and learn how food can be your medicine!
If you would like to come to a class - click HERE to register. All of the classes are $10/person for the class, dinner and comradery!
A summer class and dinner series every Thursday, 5:30 - 7 pm, starting June 12, 2025 thru September 25th at the pavilion. We will have different instructors focusing on different healthy food and sometimes, ethnic dishes! Join us to learn and share a meal!
June 12th - Natalie Alinder, (1 of 2) Breakfast with Red Lotus Lifestyle
June 19th - Tom Milano, Keeping your Body Fueled in Summer Heat
June 26th - Megan Irving, Ancient Grains
July 3rd - NO CLASS
July 10th - Geneva McCloud, Kids Can Cook!
July 17th - Dr. Pooja Gupta, (1 of 2) Eat to Beat Cancer
July 24th - Dr. Pooja Gupta, (2 of 2) The Power of Beans
July 31st - Sabine Iafrate, Summer in France
August 7th - Stephanie Selvaggio , Plant Based Protein
August 14th - Justine Schneider, Seasonal Eating & Summer Tomatoes
August 21st - Carl Hay, American Classics
August 28th - Natalie Allinder, (2 of 2), Super Hydrate with plants for Summer
September 4th - Nick Marinello (1 of 2) Fermenting 101
September 11th - Yaseen Jawad, Middle Eastern Mezze
September 18th - Maggie Smith, Prep-Ahead Broccoli Crunch Salad
September 25th - Nick Marinello (2 of 2) Fermenting Fun
Come join us for a meal and learn how food can be your medicine!
$10/person
We received a 2021 donation to construct a Community Table for our Community Meals initiative. Tom built 2 - 16 foot tables for these meals, and Food is Medicine. We held two free Community Meals in 2021. One of them featured a trio from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra! We want to continue this in 2023. If you would like to contribute to this, please get in touch with us and let us know how you would like to be involved!
Community Meals
Come, learn and see how food can unite and heal!