Comments on: The rise of urban farms in Detroit http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/the-rise-of-urban-farms-in-detroit/ Dig Michigan! Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:03:36 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Absolute Michigan http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/the-rise-of-urban-farms-in-detroit/comment-page-1/#comment-38885 Absolute Michigan Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:56:22 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/?p=1413#comment-38885 Here is an interesting article and audio from NPR - <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91354912&ft=1&f=1003" rel="nofollow">Farms Take Root in Detroit's Foreclosures</a> <blockquote>Wayne County, Mich. — home to Detroit — has been hit especially hard by the mortgage crisis. The county has inherited thousands of unwanted properties, leaving plot after plot of vacant land. So a nonprofit group pitched an idea: Take that unused land, and grow food for the needy.</blockquote> Here is an interesting article and audio from NPR - Farms Take Root in Detroit's Foreclosures

Wayne County, Mich. — home to Detroit — has been hit especially hard by the mortgage crisis.

The county has inherited thousands of unwanted properties, leaving plot after plot of vacant land. So a nonprofit group pitched an idea: Take that unused land, and grow food for the needy.

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