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Nourishing Communities: How Urban Agriculture feeds, educates, and uplifts Michigan cities

Thursday, September 18, 2025 10:25

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Executive Director Julius Buzzard and local artist Curtis Wallace stand outside the freshly painted Ypsilanti Farmer’s Marketplace, a downtown food and vendor market that uplifts local farmers, artisans, and vendors. Courtesy.

Community gardens provide more than just food for urban residents. These organizations serve as educational centers, community spaces, and environmentally-friendly food production for urban Michigan residents.

By Laura Fitzgerald
metromode
Sept 11, 2025

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t’s a method of food production in cities and suburbs that provides food to the people who live closest to where the food is grown, says Naim Edwards, the Director of Michigan State University Extension’s Urban Agriculture Center.

Community gardens typically feature a diverse range of crops that produce nutritionally dense, nourishing food, Edwards says.

“Ecologically, [community agriculture] tends to be more diverse. So urban farms and community gardens usually grow anywhere from five to 50-plus things, whereas an (industrial) farm is just acres on acres of one thing, which is not healthy for biodiversity, for insects, for birds, pollinators, mammals, humans, air quality, water quality,” he says.

“It creates a degraded ecosystem – essentially a less resilient system that is more dependent on water, fertilizer, and energy – whereas urban and community agriculture tend to work more in harmony with the earth and with the surrounding community.”

During economic downturns and supply chain disruptions – most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic – urban residents turn to community agriculture to save money on food costs and foster self-reliance.

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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/nourishing-communities-how-urban-agriculture-feeds-educates-and-uplifts-michigan-cities/

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