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Articles by Mark Dowie

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Detroit’s Urban Farms: Food Among the Ruins

Mark Dowie August 19, 2009 Mark Dowie

Detroit, the country's most depressed metropolis, has zero produce-carrying grocery chains. It also has open land, fertile soil, ample water, and the ingredients to reinvent itself from Motor City to urban farm.

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