Last week, in the wake of a post on urban food production and how it might help stave off the impending cannibal apocalypse, a reader by the name of KJC asked what people thought about John Hantz, and his plans to create a massive for-profit farm in the heart of downtown Detroit. As I didn’t […]
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Would the Hantz Farm be good for Detroit?
Posted in Agriculture, Detroit, Food Also tagged Ashley Atkinson, cannibal apocalypse, Center for Economic Security, community gardens, CS Mott Group for Sustainable Food Systems, Dan Carmody, Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, eminent domain, Food & Society Conference, Greening of Detroit, high-fructose corn syrup, John Hantz, local food production, Malik Yakini, Matt Allen, Michael Hamm, Michigan State University Extension, monocultures, plantations, post-petroleum era, public policy, Thomas Jefferson 29 Comments
Ypsi/Arbor Transition training
I’ve written quite a bit here over the past year or so about the Transition Town movement, so I won’t get into a lot of the background right now. [You can find details by doing a site search on “Transition.”] I did, however want to pass along this update as to what happened during last […]