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According to a recent report, Detroit is a food desert. This means over half a million city-dwellers must travel twice as far to reach the closest mainstream grocer as they do to get to a fringe location?like a liquor store?gas station or fast food restaurant. With the estimated 10,000 Detroiters that are leaving the city each year?the likelihood of grocers moving in decreases. Those folks who do move often leave behind abandoned building and vacant lots. This piece explores urban gardening, and how as a movement, it can serve as a common solution to all of these aforsaid issues.
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According to a recent report, Detroit is a food desert. This means over half a million city-dwellers must travel twice as far to reach the closest mainstream grocer as they do to get to a fringe location?like a liquor store?gas station or fast food restaurant. With the estimated 10,000 Detroiters that are leaving the city each year?the likelihood of grocers moving in decreases. Those folks who do move often leave behind abandoned building and vacant lots. This piece explores urban gardening, and how as a movement, it can serve as a common solution to all of these aforsaid issues.
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INTRO: According to a recent report, Detroit is a food desert. This means over half a million city-dwellers must travel twice as far to reach the closest mainstream grocer as they do to get to a fringe location?like a liquor store?gas station or fast food restaurant. With the estimated 10,000 Detroiters that are leaving the city each year?the likelihood of grocers moving in decreases. Those folks who do move often leave behind abandoned building and vacant lots. But as Detroit Today?s Zak Rosen recently discovered?more and more Detroiters are beginning to change their fate, and their landscape?with their own hands
In early August, more than 350 people climbed aboard 6 buses while another 60 or so mounted bikes for a guided tour of Detroit?s urban gardens and farms. It all began at the Catharine Ferguson Academy. The academy is a Detroit Public School for pregnant and parenting...
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