A close look at the complicated relationship between Detroit’s Black communities and urban agriculture.

Urban agriculture has been a response to Detroit’s vacant land concern among residents and city officials for decades — more than a century, even, if you consider former Mayor Hazen S. Pingree ...

With Tepfirah Rushdan's appointment, Detroit joins Atlanta, Philadephia, Boston and Washington D.C., in hiring a director of urban agriculture.

A close look at the complicated relationship between Detroit’s Black communities and urban agriculture.

With lots of empty space and a shrinking population, Detroit may be ready to try something radical: urban agriculture.

Detroit, which revolutionized manufacturing with its auto assembly lines, could once again be a model for the world as residents transform vacant, often-blighted land into a source of fresh food.

Since 2016 Detroit has gained more than 22 new large scale gardens and farms. As these new farmers put down roots, some wonder what the future of urban agriculture will look like there.

Hantz Farms, a company owned by wealthy investors, has bought 1,500 abandoned lots on Detroit’s lower-east side for half a million dollars.

Dan Carmody, Eastern Market president, said Detroit is a national leader in urban farming because of "the sheer number of people participating in it." He said there are 20,000 people working on ...

Detroit should aggressively promote urban agriculture for a large part of its nearly 50 square miles of vacant land. The amount of Detroit's vacant land is incomprehensible even to urban experts ...

Then, in 2013, Detroit passed the Urban Agricultural Ordinance that legalized what Hebron and many Detroiters were already doing — farming and communal gardening.

Despite Detroit's reputation as a mecca for urban agriculture, a new analysis of the city's Lower Eastside, which covers 15 square miles, found that community and private gardens occupy less than ...