If the empty lots of Detroit aren't filled with development, well,
there's another idea: Urban farms. The city is ripe with vacant land just waiting to be tilled.
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In the empty lots where houses once stood, the soil nourishes
fast-growing weeds, turning land back into chunks of prairie-like flora
that carpeted the ground before the French fur traders ever landed in
the area. When I see this, I see the potential for farms and gardens,
for a green revival. I see Detroit's opportunity to be at the forefront
of an urban farming or a green energy movement that would perhaps put
it on the map for energy alternatives --- and create food and jobs for
those who have been left out of the economic picture for years.
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