Everybody Eats. If you don't you die. This fact of life makes the grocery store business very viable with an instantaneous customer base. So why is there not one mainstream grocery store in all of the City of Detroit?
Whether it's crime, location or taxes Detroit citizens are making due without a main grocery store with an excellent solution. Detroit has lots and lots of vacant lots--60 sq. mi of it. Detroiters are trending back to the very roots of humanity: homegrown food. Through programs like Adopt-a-lot, the successful Eastern Market, independent grocery stores like Honeybee's Market and upcoming agriculture corporation such as Hantz Farms, Detroit is making lemonade out of their own grown lemons.
There are so many advantages to this type of production of food. It removes blight, creates community, feeds the hungry locally, provides entrepreneurial opportunities and gets citizens the type of nutrition they need. I really think it is great how Detroit is able to take something that isn't ideal and create an alternative answer.
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