Subject / Headline: Detroit does it best

Greetings gardeners,

Detroit is rarely portrayed as the model of anything positive by the media, but our Urban Farming community is breaking that trend. Detroit is being used as an example for other major city’s such as New York and San Francisco for how to make urban gardening as successful.

What’s Detroit’s recipe for success? It takesa community that care deeply about their city, an administration that’s willing to help and space on which to build gardens.

Below we have links to a few of the articles highlighting the success of Detroit gardens and what it is that makes them so successful

Good Magazine explains all the things that Detroit is doing right, and advises other cites to take notice.

What makes the Detroit model so special? In addition to their large annual yields, the farms show strong community involvement and rate of return—over 80 percent of the gardeners in the GRP return to the program each spring.

Even the mayor is in support of Urban farming as Crain’s Detroit Business reports

Detroit Mayor Dave Bing’s administration works on a plan to align the city’s geography with its ability to deliver services, urban farming can be a key component of putting the city’s vacant land into productive use.

Detroit's new evolution from manufacturing to agriculture is catching the eye of cities around the country reports the Christian Science Monitor.

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.With growing interest in locally raised food, cities including New York, Los Angeles, and Seattle are looking at ways to foster and manage urban agriculture. San Francisco's mayor has proposed creating community gardens on vacant public land citywide.

Great things are happening and we know even greater things are still to come. As always we encourage you or anyone you know that might need help to drop us a line, we’re happy to help out. Keep growing

-Garden Resource Program