Activists tap a sweet Indigenous tradition to connect youth of color in Detroit with

[CassTechGrad]

PBS-Mar 11, 2024...“As urban peoples, our relations to nature too often come at a distance,” said Antonio Rafael, cofounder of the Detroit Sugarbush Project. “Our modern lives keep us staring at screens, living in boxes, and out of touch with the real world. Sugarbush recenters life.”

They quietly collected sap in the sugar maple grove off Outer Drive in Detroit’s Rouge Park, and boiled it down to make maple syrup and sugar…https://www.pbs.org/newshour/educati...h-the-outdoors

[Jimaz]

I've heard claims that walnut syrup tastes even better but I'm skeptical.

[Richard]

Canada may get mad thinking it will jeopardize their maple syrup industry.

This is cool in so many ways and gives the added benefit of getting people out into nature.

They used to have programs like this in the past but not sure what color has to do with it,I know plenty of people of color that hunt,fish,camp and even know how to swim,shocking I know.

For many when they were growing up it was how they survived.