urban farming

Detroit’s Urban Agriculture Zoning Moves Ahead

Detroit’s planning commission has approved the city’s new urban agriculture zoning ordinance.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/12/08

The Lawrence Tech Blue Devil plugs in. Matt Roush photo.

Lawrence Tech Event Helps You Get Sustainable

Information about sustainability in all those fields is available at Lawrence Technologial University’s eighth annual Seminars On Sustainability, Friday and Saturday at the school’s Southfield campus, 21000 W. 10 Mile Road.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/10/05

Produce growing on the farm. (WWJ: Pat Sweeting)

Urban Farm Thriving In Rouge Park

Not only does this farm make positive use of the land, it provides fresh produce and even honey from the resident bee-keeping operation.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/04/27

City Tables Issue, Wants Woman To Discuss Backyard Farm With Neighbors

After a three-hour hearing, city officials have decided to “butt out” of the debate over a Livonia woman’s pet chickens and goats.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/03/08

Neighbors Face Off Over Backyard Farm

”Let me keep my goats.” That’s what a Livonia woman will ask city officials at a zoning hearing Tuesday night.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/03/06

Neighbors Face Off Over Backyard Farm

The battle lines have been drawn in a Livonia neighborhood over a family’s chickens and goats.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/03/01

Backyard Chickens Now Legal In Ferndale

Ferndale residents will be allowed to keep up to three hens in their backyard under an ordinance approved by the City Council.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/01/11

$50,000 Grant To Kettering From Ford Will Help an Urban Farm Get off the Water Grid

For the second year in a row, Kettering University has won a $50,000 grant from the Ford Motor Company Fund’s Ford College Community Challenge (Ford C3) to help Flint’s Harvesting Earth Educational Farm.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2011/10/13

The raised vegetable beds at Compuware's Lafayette Greens urban mini-farm in downtown Detroit.

Compuware, City Open Urban Farm Downtown

Hundreds of Compuware Corp. workers, city officials, and the just plain curious attended Wednesday’s grand opening of Lafayette Greens, the tech giant’s experiment in urban gardening in the heart of downtown Detroit.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2011/08/31