Detroit's urban farming initiatives are clearly gaining traction. An award-winning documentary is traveling the festival circuit and will soon be aired on TV: Grown in Detroit, by Dutch filmmakers Mascha and Manfred Poppenk. The film shows how nature has taken over Detroit's abandoned landscape, how farms, bee colonies, and native flowers now nourish a growing revolution. The film focuses on the gardening/farming program at the Catherine Ferguson Academy for Young Women, a school for pregnant and parenting teens. The filmmakers present the case that the students' initial resistance disappears when they reap the rewards of their bounty.Watch the trailer at www.grownindetroit.tv.
Could Detroit become an urban oasis?!
ReplyDeleteIf you are in the Detroit area - the film will be airing on Detroit PBS 56, Sept. 22 9-10pm and Sept. 23 2:30-3:30am
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