Googling “urban farming” yields, not surprisingly, numerous results for cities such as Portland, Oregon, presently — but where it really starts to look interesting is when you look at one of the United States’ most economically depressed cities: Detroit, Michigan.
from the Urbanophile:
Detroit is also attracting dreams of large scale renewal through agriculture, as Mark Dowie [...]
(A work in progress)
Every so often, societies, from microbes to men, cyclically find themselves in a time of uncertainty, even panic. It seems to happen much more frequently than people even seem to collectively recall, it seems. Then, the dust clears, and just as cyclically there is a period of new interest — a frontier. [...]
I have a few things to take care of today, out and about, but I’m ruminating an article, inspired by a number of things. Meanwhile, enjoy a virtual visit to Stony Creek Farm.
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