Over the weekend I had the opportunity to visit the Michigan Urban Farming Initiative (MUFI). We took a look at their plots and ongoing work in the gardens. Then we checked out a building they are working to acquire and convert the back half into a hydro/aquaponics facility. Detroit has lost about 200,000 people in the last dozen years. That’s a big hit and it leaves a lot of empty property. MUFI is buying up abandoned homes, demolishing them and recycling the materials into their growing urban agriculture initiative. In a sense, MUFI is an organic creature itself; taking in resources from it’s environment and using them become a thriving entity. But I digress…
Darin, Mike, Aaron and I with the MUFI booth at a Youth and Health event in Detroit.