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
Posted in Agriculture, Ann Arbor, Detroit, entrepreneurism, Environment, Food, Sustainability, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged 13th, addiction, Ann Arbor, 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
The desperate need for affordable housing in Ann Arbor, the story of the black history mural that brought the community together, and nudity on the radio… on episode 32 of the Saturday Six Pack
Every episode of the Saturday Six Pack, toward the end, devolves into chaos. It’s been that way since we first started the show. We begin each episode with the best of intentions, but, somewhere along the line, things start to careen off in a direction that would wouldn’t have thought possible just a few hours […]
Posted in Art and Culture, History, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged affordable housing, Affordable Housing and Economic Equity Analysis, art, black history, Brett Lenart, Chuck Warpehoski, Colin Moorhouse, Douglas Jones, economic segregation, Elijah McCoy, HP Jacobs, Lynne Settles, Mary Jo Callan, Matt Siegfried, Michael Appel, Minus9, murals, nudity, Platt Road, public art, public nudity, Rob Krupicka, The Who Guy, Tom Perkins, Washtenaw County Office of Community and Economic Development, YCS, Ypsi Underground, Ypsilanti Community Schools 27 Comments