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Keep Growing Detroit's farm in Eastern Market
Posted inCommunity

Keep Growing Detroit fundraises to buy neighboring Eastern Market property, aims for ‘food sovereign city’

Headshot of Planet Detroit intern Maya Moore by Maya Moore August 21, 2025August 21, 2025

Keep Growing Detroit nears $40,000 fundraising goal for purchase of neighboring Eastern Market property.

Compost pile at Sanctuary Farms in Detroit.
Posted inNews

Detroit launches pilot composting program, ‘lays the foundation’ for citywide system

Avatar photo by Ethan Bakuli August 14, 2025August 14, 2025
Sharing Excess CEO Evan Ehler, left, GenesisHOPE director of community health and wellness Selena Asberry-Goss, and Chad Techner, founder and CEO of Metro Food Rescue.
Posted inNews

Detroit food rescue partnership kicks off with 617,000 pounds of produce in 2 months

Avatar photo by Dustin Blitchok June 24, 2025June 24, 2025
Jason Ford on the second floor of the Detroit People's Food Co-op
Posted inNeighborhood Reporting Lab

Jason Ford’s next chapter begins at Detroit People’s Food Co-op: ‘We gotta build the systems’

Avatar photo by Aderonke Ibironke June 10, 2025June 30, 2025
Dazmonique Carr, owner of Deeply Rooted Produce, stands next to a van bearing the company's logo.
Posted inNeighborhood Reporting Lab

How Dazmonique Carr works to improve Detroit’s food access, one produce box at a time

Avatar photo by Tamia Davis May 30, 2025May 30, 2025
Brittney Rooney, lead farmer at Detroit's Beaverland Farms.
Posted inNeighborhood Reporting Lab

Brittney Rooney grows food on Beaverland Farms — and community in Brightmoor

Avatar photo by Carole Hawke-Diop May 6, 2025May 6, 2025
People wait in line outside a building.
Posted inNews

Nonprofits deliver more halal meals to seniors, as demand and need rise

by Mickey Lyons July 31, 2024
Posted inCommunity

Cristo Rey students create cookbook from urban garden harvest

Avatar photo by Estefania Arellano-Bermudez June 26, 2024July 4, 2024
Cows each hay behind a wooden barrier.
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‘None of us saw this coming’: Michigan confronts bird flu in cows

Avatar photo by Izzy Ross, IPR June 6, 2024June 6, 2024
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What we’re reading: Clark Park revival, water bill help, and fixing Michigan’s lead pipes

Avatar photo by Nina Misuraca Ignaczak May 9, 2024May 16, 2024

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