Detroit's bright spot: booming urban farms
1000% growth in 6 years: Thats how fast urban food gardens are growing Motown. When I wrote about urban farming for the NYT last year, Greening of Detroit’s Gardening Resource Progarm was tickled to have gone from 80 gardens in 2003 to about 360 in 2007. This year, they had 866. And their sales at their urban farm cooperative—which sells city-grown produce at WIC offices and the city’s Eastern Market—boomed from about $15,000 last year to roughly $50,000 this year. Note: This is all according to Ashley Atkinson, the GRP coordinator—it is not, unfortunately, something I’ve been able to verify independently.
