Melvin Parson and I have been working off an on for the past two years on an interview for this site. It began as an Ypsilanti Immigration Interview, and, over time, as we dug deeper into his work with We The People Growers Association, evolved into something more about his dream of establishing a world-class […]
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Melvin Parson and the campaign to create a world-class urban farm in Ypsilanti
Also posted in Agriculture, Ann Arbor, Detroit, Environment, Food, Sustainability, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Tagged 13th, addiction, Ann Arbor, Avalon Housing, Black Beauty, community gardens, culinary arts, Dawn Farm, Detroit, Doug Coombe, drugs, Edible Avalon, Emanuel Tyus, food hub, fundraising, Great Migration, Henry Ford, Henry Ford Museum, heroin, inequality, Kerrytown, Kerrytown Farmers Market, local food, local food production, matching grants, Melvin Parson, Michigan Department of Corrections, Parkridge Homes, Port Huron, prison industry, prison reform, Shaka Senghor, social justice, St. Joseph Mercy, substance abuse, the hiring on ex-fellons, urban farming, Washtenaw County Jail, We The People Growers Association, We The People Opportunity Center, white flight, Wizard of Oz, YCS, Ypsi immigration interview, Ypsilanti Community Schools 9 Comments
A new downtown pop-up puts Ypsi youth to work bridging the digital divide
There’s a new pop-up computer retailer in downtown Ypsilanti this holiday season. It’s called Digital Inclusion (DI), and it’s the most recent outgrowth of a program that started half a dozen years ago to get computer systems into the hands of folks on the wrong side of the digital divide. And, if the pop-up goes […]
Also posted in Local Business, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Tagged B.Side, computer access, computers, digital divide, Digital Inclusion, Eastern Michigan University, EMU, Jack Bidlack, North Washington Street, Pure Michigan Social Entrepreneurship Challenge, recycling, refurbished computers, social enterprise, technical training 13 Comments
Are iPhones, social media, selfies and other societal trends fucking up the restaurant business?
My friend Rhonda Crosson, who left a career as a biochemist in Michigan to become a baker in the big apple, recently shared the following from Craigslist NYC. Personally, I suspect it’s fiction, but, as it raises a number of interesting issues concerning how personal technology is impacting the restaurant business, I thought that I’d […]
Also posted in Food, Uncategorized Tagged cell phones, restaurants, Rhonda Crosson, selfies, social media, surveillance, surveillance culture, video surveillance 14 Comments