Semester D

The recent speakers that we have encountered have been really thought provoking to me.  The one probably on everyone’s mind is Wayne, who is very idealistic about food policy.  I think that he serves as an interesting reference point for me to start to realize some of the inequalities that exist in our current food [...]

The arguments against urban farming–its small scale, its questionable economic feasibility, and simply its difficulty–are all completely valid. However, these “problems” in my opinion are in fact the solution to what has become our food chain which is at best, misdirected by industry, and at worst, frankly disgusting and pushing some ethical boundaries to the [...]

Dozens of local, national, and international news articles have profiled urban farming as a transformative solution to many of Detroit’s problems: unused land, high unemployment, declining communities, and a lack of fresh food. However, I’m not at all convinced that urban farming has the properties and possibilities some of its proponents claim it does. My [...]