The Huckleberry Explorers Club Fall Fundraiser III

Greetings, our dear Huckleberry friends!

Here we are to report on another glorious and jubilant year at the Huckleberry Explorers Club Museum and General Store and Gardens.

We continued our collaborations with local musicians in our museum and garden, including Michael Malis' Other Tones series, which supports performances of experimental and new music. This was really great. Even I, Shuffy, performed!

In addition, we supported some fine Detroit poets with readings in the garden, and have just published the first book supported by The Huckleberry Explorers Club, The Sabbath Day, a book written by our dear friend in Detroit, Preacha Otis. Now for sale in the General Store.

If that weren't enough, we showed some incredibly wonderful and some downright terrible films in our beloved microcinema. As well, we enjoyed weekly meditations in the garden and had several harvest festivals, including Strawberry Fest in which we tried to eat the grotesque amount of strawberries we are now growing.

Speaking of our garden, which provides joy and food to the neighborhood has, thanks to your support of 2023, become more delightful than ever, with improvements made to the cob oven (next year, green roof!), vegetable beds, and our bird-seducing pond. We also planted about 10 or 15 new trees (I have lost count) and many more pollinators, attracting sexy butterflies and dragonflies and houseflies (they are pollinators too, don't hate).

But mostly we are continuing to be a space of beauty and wonder here in Detroit, free and open to all, with our aforementioned Museum and General Store, where you can always buy something useless, contemplate the fragile nature of the material world, receive a hug, or just enjoy a free cup of coffee and some conversation.

Friends, we received your support last year and it was so appreciated. Now we ask again. We are helped immensely by a team of dedicated and tireless volunteers - but frankly, the garden has become so enormous, we really need to start paying some folks for help. $3 buys someone a cup of coffee. $100 plants a tree. $300 pays a neighborhood friend to help us mow and dig holes.

Please help us carry on with our brave efforts here in this most magnificent city of Detroit.

Stefany Anne "Shuffy" Golberg

Director and Founder