(MI) The Detroit News – Gardening is quiet and hopeful, a specific remedy for despair that requires only soil, water, sunshine and human will.
That’s why, in the shadow of a long-closed Catholic school, in a ravaged east side neighborhood, a woman steers a small tractor through a field, leaving crisply trimmed grass behind.
That’s why “urban farming” is suddenly being talked about as a practical way to reclaim the Detroit prairie: It nurtures people and feeds them. More
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