The Mo' Green Town proposal by New York City activist Majora Carter just might hit the sweet spot in Detroit urban agriculture.
Carter visited Detroit recently to talk up her plan to create a worker-owned urban agriculture cooperative venture. By pooling the efforts of numerous small growers in Detroit, it would attempt to grow big enough to generate real profits and a return for investors. But it would be run by local community growers themselves.
That seems to fit midway between Detroit's hundreds of tiny, volunteer garden plots and the big, mechanized, for-profit farm that businessman John Hantz proposed earlier this year.
And as a worker-owned co-op, Carter's venture might not ruffle the feathers of the nonprofit community that for the most part opposes Hantz's for-profit proposal.
Carter said commercializing what is now largely a nonprofit volunteer operation is the best way to help poor Detroiters.
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