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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Film on Indigenous food sovereignty screened in Detroit
‘Gather’ highlights Indigenous efforts to reclaim identity and heal trauma through food sovereignty.
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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.
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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.