Travel and mom duties have kept me away for nearly a month and I’ve got a huge backlog of things to write about. But I found this article in my travels today and I just had to share it.

It contains some startling facts about the almost total food desert that exists in Detroit. One factoid: “About 80 percent of the residents of Detroit buy their food at the one thousand convenience stores, party stores, liquor stores, and gas stations in the city.” Walk into a convenience store today if you get the chance and imagine being restricted to the offerings there. Sobering, isn’t it?

However, unlike a lot of articles I’ve read in urban newspapers over the past few years, this one offers an equally startling, innovative solution. Turn the vast tracts of abandoned land in Detroit into cropland. From the article: “An American Institute of Architects panel concludes that all Detroit’s residents could fit comfortably in fifty square miles of land. Much of the remaining ninety square miles could be farmed.”

What an amazing thought. The entire article is highly worth reading and I encourage you all to take the time to do so. Peace out…