Food Security/ Urban Gardens and farms
Co Lab Creative
Based in Detroit, Co-Lab Creative is an interdisciplinary group formed to initiate creative, educational projects that address social inequity and ecological distress. Our projects emphasize community involvement and involve Detroit youth at a variety of ages. Current projects include schoolyard gardening and grassroots product design. The goal is to create beautiful, well-crafted, quality designs and places that express respect for humanity and the natural environment.
Detroit Agricultural Network
These Detroit urban agriculture and community garden programs are a collaborative effort brought to you by the Detroit Agriculture Network, The Greening of Detroit, Capuchin Soup Kitchen’s Earthworks Garden and Michigan State University.
Detroit Black Community Food Security Network
The Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN), a non-profit, grassroots, community organization aims to change our thinking about food, where it comes from, and who controls it. It was formed in 2006 for the following purposes: ·Influencing Public Policy ·Promoting Urban Agriculture ·Encouraging Co-operative Buying Habits ·Promoting Healthy Eating Habits ·Facilitating Mutual support and collective action among our members ·Encouraging young people to pursue careers in agriculture, aquaculture, animal husbandry, bee-keeping, and other food related fields.
Detroit Food Justice Task Force
The Detroit Food Justice Task Force is a consortium of People of Color led organizations and allies that share a commitment to creating a food security plan for Detroit that is: sustainable; that provides healthy, affordable foods for all of the city’s people; that is based on best-practices and programs that work; and that is just and equitable in the distribution of food, jobs and profits.
Detroit Food Policy Council Forums
Please join the Detroit Food Policy Council (DFPC) at one of our
upcoming community forums on food and the food system in Detroit.
Learn how to get involved and create solutions around four topics:
Healthy Food Access, Urban Agriculture, Community Food Justice and
Schools and Institutions.
Your input will help us plan our first annual Powering Up the Local
Food System Summit scheduled for May 19-20 at Eastern Market.
The forums will be held as follows:
Tuesday, April 19 at Gleaner’s Community Food Bank, 2131 Beaufait,
Detroit 48207 6-8 p.m.
Wednesday, April 20 at Nsoroma Institute, 20045 Joann St. Detroit
48205 6-8 p.m.
Tuesday, April 26 at Christ the King Church- Koelzer Hall, 20800 Grand
River, Detroit 48219 6-8 p.m.
Thursday, April 28 at Most Holy Redeemer Church, 1721 Junction,
Detroit 48209 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
The Detroit Food Policy Council was established in 2009 and is
committed to nurturing the development and maintenance of a
sustainable, localized food system and a food-secure city of Detroit
in which all of its residents are hunger-free, healthy and benefit
economically from the food system that impacts their lives.
For more information, visit our website at www.detroitfoodpolicycouncil.net,
send an email to detroitfoodpolicycouncil@gmail.com or call the office
at 313.833.0396.
Cheryl A. Simon
Coordinator
DFPC
Earthworks Urban Farm
Earthworks works to restore our connection to the environment and community in keeping with the tradition of our spiritual patron, St. Francis. It is a working study in social justice, as well as in being more connected to the food we eat. This project relies on the gracious donations from supports of the Capuchin Soup Kitchen and of time from volunteers and materials from sponsors. Neighbors and friends of all ages, incomes and faiths join us in our work.
Georgia Street Community Collective
The mission of the Georgia Street Community Collective is to provide the residents of our community with:
Health by maintaining the Georgia Street Community Garden and Market Education by establishing and maintaining the Georgia Street Community Center/Library Leadership Skills, by providing positive role models Protection, by having the Community Center/Library to give the youth a place to meet, and to Rebuild and Sustain Our Community One House, One Block, One Neighborhood at a Time.
Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit
Our Mission Founded in 1990, Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit is a nonprofit organization that promotes practical environmental solutions and innovative social strategies for restoring the Earth and communities. “It’s All Alive, It’s All Intelligent, It’s All Connected.” Bioneers offers pragmatic solutions that honor the living web of the natural world as the most fertile source of inspiration and models. It’s all alive.
Green Toe Gardens
Green Toe Gardens is a community based Michigan apiary founded by Rich Wieske and Joan Mandell. Today we have over 60 hives in the city of Detroit and in its northern suburbs, producing honey, pollen, propolis and queens.
Greening of Detroit
The Greening of Detroit was founded in 1989 to improve the quality of life in Detroit by guiding and inspiring the reforestation of Detroit’s neighborhoods, boulevards and parks through tree planting projects and educational programs. Over the years The Greening has expanded its outreach to include a broad sector of greening activities. Its mission reflects this growth: “Guide and inspire the growth of a ‘greener’ Detroit through planting and educational programs, environmental leadership, advocacy, and by building community capacity.” Annually, The Greening hosts planting projects, ranging from full park restorations to streetscape renovations and massive street tree plantings to the creation of community and family vegetable gardens.
Growing Power
Growing Power transforms communities by supporting people from diverse backgrounds and the environments in which they live through the development of Community Food Systems. These systems provide high-quality, safe, healthy, affordable food for all residents in the community.Growing Power develops Community Food Centers, as a key component of Community Food Systems, through training, active demonstration, outreach, and technical assistance.
The Yes Farm
Inspired by our community, The Yes Farm is a collective of artists acting as urban farmers, teachers and builders in the Near East side of Detroit.
Fueled by social awareness and environmentally conscious actions: we re-purpose salvaged materials from abandoned and burnt-out houses and factories to rebuild our gallery and homes, work with our community to maintain and expand the large amount of cultivated land, and are personally determined to bring a more attainable understanding of the arts through hands-on workshops and informative art shows.