Keep Growing Detroit

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#Keep_Growing_Detroit (#KGD)

Keep Growing Detroit (KGD) exists to promote a food sovereign city where the majority of fruits and vegetables Detroiters consume are grown by residents within the city’s limits. Our staff operate a number of established and nationally recognized programs, including the #Garden_Resource_Program (#GRP) and #Grown_in_Detroit (#GID). Keep Growing Detroit’s strategic approach to achieving our mission facilitates beginner gardeners becoming engaged community leaders and food entrepreneurs, addressing the immediate needs of the community while promoting sustainable change in our food system.

▻http://detroitagriculture.net

#D-Town_farm

In June 2007 we acquired use of a ½ acre lot, on Collingwood at Cascade, on Detroit’s westside, owned by the Pan African Orthodox Christian Church. This site had previously been used as a garden site by the church, but had not been under cultivation for a few years. We named the site D-Town Farm. ; We created beds, walkways, an irrigation system, developed a team of daily crew leaders, acquired additional tools and sold produce both at the site itself and at Eastern Market. We held our First Annual Harvest Festival in September of 2007. We fully expected to plant at the site in the April of 2008, but we were notified in March that the church had plans for its own use of the site.

▻http://www.d-townfarm.com

Community food security network

The organization was founded to ensure that Detroit’s African American population participated in the food movement and because we are the vast majority of the population in Detroit, that we are in the leadership on that movement locally.

▻https://detroitblackfoodsecurity.org