Tours will highlight the many urban gardens and farms within Detroit on Saturday, Aug. 9 at 4:30 p.m.
About 350
people participated in last year's tour. This year, one bus
will tour West Side farms, another East Side farms.
The Garden
Resource Program is sponsored by the Detroit Agriculture Network,
Earthworks Garden/ Capuchin Soup Kitchen, the Greening of Detroit, and
Michigan State Extension Wayne County. Together they support urban
agriculture and sustainable farming practices.
The tour will
begin and end at the Catherine Ferguson Academy at 2750 Selden on
Detroit’s Southwest side. Prior registration is required and can be
done by phone or e-mail. Contact Ashley Atkinson, at 313-237-8736 or
via email at
[email protected]. A harvest potluck is planned for after
the tour at 8 p.m.
Some of the scheduled gardens the tour will
visit include the 4-H Community Center on the East Side, the newly
created Black Food Security Network Garden on the East Side, the
community garden at Romanowski Park on the West Side and the Catherine
Ferguson Academy’s garden.
Sources: Ashley Atkinson, Detroit Agriculture Network, Lindsay Turpin, Detroit Garden Network
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