urban farming

Tepfirah Rushdan is Detroit's new urban agriculture director. She’ll work to support the current farms in the city and help turn more vacant land into farms.

From who grows it to who cooks it, systemic racism has a major impact on the food that we eat. Take, for instance, farming. Less than two percent of…

A few miles from the heart of Detroit’s downtown, sandwiched between diverging freeways is a sort of microcosm of the city: a factory, a boarded-up…

The Next IdeaSince mankind first began growing crops, the farmer's enemies have been drought, wind, wild temperature swings: curve balls served up by…

State economic development officials and a nonprofit urban farming group have launched a crowdfunded campaign to turn a vacant Detroit building into a…

The Michigan Urban Farming Initiative, or Mufi, is debuting what it calls the country's first sustainable "agrihood" in Detroit.Tyson Gersh, the president…

The United States Department of Agriculture is reaching out in a special way to women and minority farmers and growers in Michigan. What’s behind this…

Just a few minutes away from our state Capitol building rests Lansing’s Urbandale neighborhood – an area trapped in the city’s 100-year floodplain.The…

The Next Idea Private development has changed the face of Detroit. New restaurants, shops and houses have popped up in Midtown, Corktown and downtown…

John Hantz heads a business financial services conglomerate. He wants to plant 15,000 trees on 140 acres of Detroit land he bought in 2012. It would be…