From LA Times – December 27, 2009
Reporting from Detroit — On the city’s east side, where auto workers once assembled cars by the millions, nature is taking back the land.
Cottonwood trees grow through the collapsed roofs of homes stripped clean for scrap metal. Wild grasses carpet the rusty shells of empty factories, now home to pheasants and wild turkeys.
This green veil is proof of how far this city has fallen from its industrial heyday and, to a small group of investors, a clear sign. Detroit, they say, needs to get back to what it was before Henry Ford moved to town: farmland.
Investors see farms as way to grow Detroit (LA Times)
This is the agriculture of the future. As energy supplies start to contract, and local sources of food are needed, people will no longer frown about urban farming. As these articles show, this movement is well on its way of becoming an acceptable norm.
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