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Urban farms are an incredibly relevant issue right now in the Detroit area of Michigan where the unemployment rate is around 1/4 the job-seeking population and families are not finding enough food to eat. This video talks about how urban farms in abandoned areas of the ci.... Children are learning how to eat right and form a tight bond with life cycles.
Have you ever heard of Growing Power? I love this video series and supporting videos as it shows an inspirational transformation of a community through an urban greenhouse and a man's powerful dream and focus.
1.Growing Power- The Greenhouse
2.Growing Power- Vermicompost(I <3 worms- really the best little buggies on earth)
3.Growing Power-Aquaculture
There's an amazing book titled The Pull of the Earth by Laurie Thorp which is about how a school garden changed the lives of children in an elementary school in a low income neighborhood (brought peace into their turbulent families, improved their nutrition, changed the way they related to their food and sustainable food growing practices). This was Laurie's dissertation research at MSU. You can read a bit of it at the link above- although the book itself is pricey.
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