Food is Medicine 2026
“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
2026 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 18, 2026 thru September 10th 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 18 Delicious Wild Fermentation. Nick Marinello
June 25 Herbaceous Spring Rolls, Colleen Serra
July 2 No Class
July 9 Eat the Rainbow, Microbiome Connection, Dr. Pooja Gupta
July 16 Mediterranean Lifestyle, Sabine Iafrate
July 23 Asian Ferment Feast, Nick Marinello
July 30 Seasonal Cravings: Tomatoes, Justine Schneider
Aug. 6 Seasonal Cravings: Stone Fruit Justine Schneider
Aug. 13 Kids Cooking Class, Geneva McCloud
Aug. 20 Eat the Rainbow, Gut Feelings, Dr. Pooja Gupta
Aug. 27 Pollinator Magic, Colleen Serra
Sept. 3 Vegetarian Street Foods, Carl Hay
Sept. 10 Vegetarian Street Foods, Carl Hay
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!