Grow Benzie

Grow Benzie enriches our region by fostering positive action to increase access to healthful foods, jobs, life skills, and each other and by providing a community place that supports and nurtures these activities.

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By supporting Grow Benzie, you can help strengthen Benzie County’s community by enabling local initiatives to focus on their mission-driven work without the burden of operational challenges. Your contributions, whether through donations, volunteering, or joining our Partner Network, directly fund services like bookkeeping, volunteer recruitment, and program spaces that uplift small nonprofits and entrepreneurs. By participating in our events, utilizing our co-working spaces, or advocating for our collaborative model, you help build a vibrant, interconnected community that fosters long-term prosperity for all.

Founded in 2007, Grow Benzie is a non-profit community center located in rural Benzie County. Formerly a commercial nursery with three 5,000 sqft hoophouses, a 3,200 sqft ranch house, and a 6,500 sqft retail building- we now have dozens of partners utilizing our campus for year-round public events: potlucks and concerts, classes and workshops including gardening (in our hoop houses), culinary and nutrition (in our commercial kitchen), sewing and knitting (in our sewing studio), and a weekly farmers market (in our community center and picnic area). Our 4-acre campus includes an event center, commercial kitchen, shared office space, incubator farm, bee yard, MakerSpace, sewing studio, community garden & farmers market. Partner organizations offer year round programs and events for youth & adults.