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

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

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.

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 ...

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.

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

Brightmoor is one of many blighted neighborhoods in Detroit, but a small group of people is hoping to save it through farming. For more, guest host Celeste Headlee speaks with Riet Schumack, co ...

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 ...