Welcome to the agrihood: Lansing’s booming farm scene
Ingham County Land Bank’s garden program has leased 90 vacant lots to 100 urban growers since 2009.
By Joan Nelson
City Pulse
Nov 6, 2024
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Every quadrant of Lansing has an agrihood, where urban farmers grow crops to sell at 20 mid-Michigan’s farmers markets. Or to restaurants. Or to the Eastside Lansing Food Co-op, a neighborhood grocery store that prioritizes locally grown foods.
These uber-local farms are small, independent operations, many spread over several non-contiguous lots. An example is the eastside’s Urbandale Neighborhood, where a dozen or so growers have found farming to be the best and highest use for that 100-year floodplain.
Many entities straddle a blurry line between farming and gardening. For instance, Lansing’s agrihoods include 54 community gardens operated by the Lansing Garden Project, a 42-year-old Greater Lansing Food Bank program. They range from a corner lot to 8 acres where nearly 2,000 people grow food. Participants have access to gardening education programs, seeds, vegetable transplants and other resources.
“While many neighbors use their plot to raise food for their families, others sell food to markets,” Garden Project manager Julie Lehman said. She added that many community gardeners are new Americans, often with well-developed farming skills, who raise food to sell to members of their immigrant community, e.g., Burmese, Nepalese, Bhutanese, and Hmong.
Source: https://cityfarmer.info/welcome-to-the-agrihood-lansings-booming-farm-scene/
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