FUN FACT: Detroit’s Fisheye Farms has a steamer that sterilizes the soil to around 160°F, killing off weed seeds and helping prevent soil disease.
Hey, it’s JB!
This week I went to the state’s MI Healthy Climate two-day conference held at Huntington Place. More than 1,000 people attended the third year of the conference which meant that I ran into tons of Detroit climate and environmental leaders.
One interesting piece of news that I picked up – a new grassroots group called the Detroit Community Compost Collection Project is launching a pilot this year for 200 participants.
DCCCP is composed of Sanctuary Farms, Detroit Black Food Sovereignty Network, Detroit Black Farmer Land Fund (DBFLF), Detroit Food Policy Council, Sacred Spaces, Oakland Avenue Urban Farm and supported by Industrious Labs.
I have all the details in the story linked below and details on more than $1 million the state granted Wednesday to compost and food waste reduction programs in Detroit.
Dig In,
JB
- Folk Detroit has an interesting interview on sustainable farming with Fisheye Farms, a .89-acre urban farm in Detroit.
- Rouge Park is having a volunteer workday Friday to plant cherry and pawpaw trees in the park.
- A new Black-owned restaurant with 100% halal meat, Choixes, is now open in New Center.
- Detroit chef Sara Welch resigned from Marrow to open a restaurant in Traverse City.
- A new cocktail bar with a rooftop patio, Pocket Change, has opened in the former Collect Beer Bar location in Eastern Market.
- A Venezuelan immigrant reportedly went the wrong way into Canada while delivering a food order in Detroit, and was deported.
- The Northwest Detroit Farmers Market is looking for vendors.
- Miss Eva’s Detroit is hosting an official release party for Black Eden 1912 Bourbon, inspired by the rich legacy of Idlewild, known as “Black Eden.
The weekly schedule of pop-ups, food events and more. Click on the calendar below created by Bekah Galang.
- Rosa is hiring a team lead and baristas.
- Detroit Farm and Cider is hiring a full time farm laborer.
- Eastern Market is hiring food and health fellows.
