No joke. What jumps out to me was the fact that Henry Ford (and I’m assuming they mean the hospital) buys most of their stuff from local gardeners. I know that most urban folk have gotten out of the habit of growing their own food–and sometimes it’s hard for me to remember that black Americans for the most part have a rural rather than urban history. But the sooner people get on this bandwagon and get off at least one of the tits that holds us hostage the better. As my own wallet gets increasingly tighter and tighter I wish we had our own plot so we could at least live off of our own vegetables for a bit. Thanks to Chow for dropping this story on me.
20,000 Urban Gardeners Wanted in Detroit
by admin | Aug 2, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Urban Politics | 4 comments
Doc its Ford world headquarters that buying the food,the founder was an avid evironmentalist,my youngest son works at a new truck plant which roof consist of plants that absorb pollutants
the urban agricultural endgame objective…,
this is HOT. how’d you get hipped to it?
just your standard run-of-the-mill grassroots correspondence with like-minded folks…,
of course, you can take for granted that there will be an advanced technology component – I should say advanced application of technology – in almost any project that draws my interest.
at the end of the day, it really does come down to making better use of what we already have available to us.
no deus ex machina required.