The position, to improve efforts to support city farm projects, is similar to others being created across the country.

Jena Brooker
Jena is a BridgeDetroit's environmental reporter, covering everything from food and agricultural to pollution to climate change.
JB’s Bites: 22 new Detroit coffee shops
BridgeDetroit food reporter Jena Brooker shares a few up and comers in the Detroit coffee space, pop-ups events you won’t want to miss and more.
Eastsiders are fed up with Stellantis truck traffic. Street plan up for city approval might not help
A city authority will take another 60 days to consider a traffic plan eastsiders worry would increase trucks. They already see more than 450 trucks a day
Group bike riding in Detroit: How it began and how to join
A recent history and a list of free, public group bike rides in Detroit
Detroit’s Friday swim club on Belle Isle quickly growing
The Belle Isle Swim Club meets every Friday at 7 a.m. to swim, hang out, and drink free coffee.
JB’s Bites: The Veggie Express and a collard cookoff
BridgeDetroit food reporter Jena Brooker has the dish on a rickshaw delivering fresh produce to Detroiters, an inaugural collard green cookoff and more.
Get ready for Detroit’s inaugural collard green cookoff
Five chefs will cook up 40 pounds of collards apiece to be judged on taste, texture, smell and creativity.
Film on Indigenous food sovereignty screened in Detroit
‘Gather’ highlights Indigenous efforts to reclaim identity and heal trauma through food sovereignty.
Solar-powered rickshaw delivering local produce to Detroiters
The Veggie Express means better access to fresh food in Detroit neighborhoods, and increased profit for farmers.
Detroit environmental lawyer selected for Obama leadership program
Jeremy Orr is director of litigation and advocacy partnerships for Earthjustice and an adjunct law professor at Michigan State University.