MSU proposes urban agriculture project in Detroit

[gazhekwe]

The goal, said Rick Foster, director of MSU’s Greening Michigan Institute, is to make Detroit the center of a worldwide research effort devoted to growing food inside cities as a way to get fresh food to urban residents and to put vacant urban land back into productive use

I love this idea, and Detroit is perfect to be on the cutting edge of this movement. Now if only we can stop getting in our own way.

[leady106]

The free press article mentioned vertical agriculture for this project, I hope they would consider using part of the Packard Plant? If it becomes economical viable they would have plently of building space and land area to expand. The redisgned roof could collect rain water, provide solar and wind power while being farmable [[if that is a word). They could also use areas of the plant for crops that require little or no sunlight [[I believe there is a chinesse vegtible staple that is grown in the dark). A show on PBS had an old structre converted to an agriculture used combined with a fish farm.