Urban Farming in a Post-Industrial Detroit

Posted by tomo at 02:10 AM in urban . | 1 Comments

Grassroots projects are taking root in Detroit's urban wasteland, literally. Volunteer, student, and neighborhood groups (as well as anarchist groups like Trumbullplex, but for other reasons) are either buying up long vacant lots on the cheap or simply taking custodianship of many acres of ghettoweeds to grow a variety of vegetables as well as raise animals for their tasty byproducts. This urban agriculture is a central component of Adamah, a bottom-up planned village within a city that hopes to be a model for a future Detroit that is built up of self-sustaining, liveable neighborhoods, independent of a single industry, where residents live in co-owned housing and work in their own neighborhoods earning a living wage as well as earning fulltime benefits.

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