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In just a few weeks, applications will open for the Detroit Black Farmer Land Fund, whose mission is to “rebuild inter-generational land ownership for Black Farmers in Detroit.”
Founded by the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, Oakland Avenue Urban Farm and Keep Growing Detroit in2020, the fund has been providing financial and technical help to Black Detroit farmers to purchase land.
To date, the fund has helped 80 Black farmers in Detroit collectively purchase nearly 20 acres of land across the cityand distributed a total of 239 awards.
The application opens June 19.
For the first time this year the fund is going on tour at local library branches to help get potential applicants ready and to answer questions about the program. The first stop was held last night at the Jefferson Branch.
Upcoming stops include: June 25 at Douglass Branch, July 7 at Parkman Branch, and July 23 at Edison Branch.
Learn more about the Detroit Black Farmer Land Fund at their website.
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The weekly schedule of pop-ups, food events and more. Click on the calendar below created by Bekah Galang.
JB with food from Tacohibachi at Bryce Detroit’s annual “Memoryal Sunday Block Party.” Credit: Jordan Brooker
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