In The News
Breath of Hope
James R. Gaines. Video by Chris Bravo.
Greens and Greenbacks
Larry Gabriel. Gardening was probably the last thing on the minds of most folks around here last Saturday when heavy snow cut fantasies of an early spring as short as the little heat wave that cruised through town a couple of weeks ago.
America’s Top Ten Urban Farms
Natural Home Magazine. Letitia L. Star. March/April 2009. Sustainable urban farms provide fresh, local produce to city dwellers and restaurants. Here are some of our favorites.
The urban prairie: Detroit farms connect people, food.
Marti Benedetti. Crain News Service. August 11, 2008. More than 300 years after it’s founding, a portion of Detroit is returning to its agricultural roots.
Growing Green in Detroit.
Olga Bonfiglio. Christian Science Monitor. August 21, 2008. A Rust Belt city discovers the benefits of urban gardening.
The Emerald City. Michele Owens. O Magazine. April 2008.
Detroit Arcadia. Rebecca Solnitz. Harper's Magazine. July 2007.
Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century
Earthworks is featured in the Stuff: Food and Farming section.
Green Cities. Organic Gardening Magazine. February/March 2008.
...Forbes magazine rated Detroit one of America's dirtiest cities. The flight of industry and residents has left 40,000 vacant lots behind. By joining the forces of the Detroit Agriculture Network, the Greening of Detroit group, and the Earthworks Garden, the Urban Gardening Resource Program is converting once-fallow land into vibrant urban farms to feed and educate residents
Detroit's Urban Garden. Brandon Q. White. The Michigan Messenger. November 2008.
. . . much of Detroit could be said to be in a food desert. An urban agricultural movement is emerging as a solution to the problem. Earth Works, a nonprofit based in Detroit, picks up where grocery stores leave off by empowering residents to grow their own produce.
Urban Gardens Are Detroit's Hope. Elizabeth Wahl.
Article about the 2007 Detroit Urban Garden Tour.
Betsy's Herb Garden Blog. Video of 2007 Detroit Urban Garden Tour. August 2, 2007.
Earth Works Garden. Christopher Thompson. City Life. March 29, 2007.
How often do we stop to think about how much time and work went in to getting the fresh produce on grocery store shelves? To most of us it's as if it appears by magic, but those who grow produce know how just much work goes into farming…
Green Idea in Wayne County. Detroit Free Press. February 28, 2006.
Community gardening grows: Program teaches leadership, how to revitalize lots…
The Secret Life of Urban Bees. Shannon Gittleman. Detroit Free Press. February 2006.
Suburban vistas may tempt some of their human counterparts. But for honeybees, life south of 8 Mile is infinitely sweeter…
Detroit monk toils in soil to feed needy. David Josar. Detroit News. Sept 11, 2005.
Brother Rick Samyn, 49, with his baseball cap and tattooed arms, has turned his love of the environment into a cottage industry in Detroit that provides food for the poor, reuses vacant lots and teaches young and old about gardening and agriculture…
Detroit Urban Agriculture. Laurel Bower Burgmaier. Iowa Public Television July 9, 2004.
Rather than sitting by and doing nothing, many Detroiters have taken up small-scale farming on the now-green spaces…
City Kids and Country Pies. Diane Conners. Great Lake News Service. March 4, 2005.
Up North farmer, downstate friar team up on fresh food…
Co-Lab Studio's Earthworks Greenhouse Project.
Gardens Nurture Neighborhood Pride. Detroit News. September 17, 2002.
Brother Rick Samyn harvests eggplant at Earthworks Garden...
Urban farms take root. Detroit News. March 17, 2007.
Across town, near Mount Elliott Cemetery, the Earth Works Garden has ... The Earth Works Garden on the city's east side is always looking for volunteers. ...
Urban organic garden grows healthy foods, kids. Detroit News. July 18, 2004.
While drug dealers conduct business on nearby corners and a homeless man naps against a building, children in an organic garden yards away pluck blackberries from a bush, plopping the juicy fruit into tin buckets..
Urban Harvest. Jonathan Cunningham, Stacey Malasky. Michigan Citizen. September 6, 2003.
On Aug. 13, over 150 community gardening enthusiasts filled three buses and several cars to caravan through the streets of Detroit, visiting ten urban garden sights for this year's annual Detroit Agriculture Network Garden Tour…
Detroit volunteer dedicated to less fortunate. Detroit News. October 5, 2006.
Marcia Lee, 23, knew early on that she wanted to spend her life helping others. She began volunteering in high school, and while in college facilitated a course on homelessness…
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