Model D urban agriculture activist Patrick Crouch wraps up the season with thoughts on where Detroit farming culture is at and where it needs to be going. Or should we say growing? Dig in, dear reader, and let us know what you think.
Art and urban agriculture are a match made in, you guessed it, Detroit. Compost bins double as canvases for painters; funky sculptures adorn community gardens. Patrick Crouch hits the Northend to show us how one neighborhood gets it done when inspiration meets perspiration.
Patrick Crouch visits the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, where vegetable crops, mushroom gardens and social justice are all being cultivated. And they are not alone in doing crucial work at the intersection of class, race, economics and the future of the city.
Earthwork's Patrick Crouch is a busy guy, serving on food policy councils and collaborating with other players in Detroit's growing agricultural networks and projects. But not too busy to write about developments here getting attention around the world. Welcome aboard, friend.
Detroit is a city of neighborhoods. No, make that urban villages that stretch across its 140-square miles. Patrick Crouch takes a closer look at an old Polish settlement west of Hamtramck and east of Dearborn, where the kielbasa and pierogi and corner bars attract old and new patrons.
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