Gotta make this post short I have a exam to study for sorry people it will be awesome. I had arrived in NoCo early afternoon when I found Greg in the back yard getting prepared for the day. He had told me he is going to plant Mazola today to get the leaves later on. While getting prepared he was explaining to me he was primarily growing the Mazola for him, due to the cost of it. He had gone on and told me that there are crops he does not grow for the sole reason being that they are incredibly expensive right from the start. This had got me to thinking, if large scale commercial urban farming can be a reality the true power and influence Detroit will have for other cities in the U.S like Milwaukee, Philadelphia to round the globe like Beijing and Dublin. That the availability of having practically every vegetable and fruit grown here and produced by citizens of these cities who are making profit and creating jobs works almost in complete harmony. Though with most respect to Greg and Brother Nature Produce he cannot grow anything due to lack of investing, which is understandable. So anyways...
We had gotten the Mazola ready to plant and this had caught me extremely off guard. Greg said to get best results is to naturally start right from the beginning. So he pulls out a homemade blowtorch he put together. It was pretty much a propane tank any one of us would use with our grill in the backyard. He had told me he needed the top layer of soil to be warm for the Mazola seeds to survive. I decided to step neer the large greenhouse which was unbelievably humid. Greg went by a few sweeps with the blowtorch. I do have to say he was looking like a bad ass with it.
He finished and we planted the Mazola. Towards the end of my stay I had taken home a bag of greens grown and harvested in NoCo Detroit. I got home and made a great salad with the mixed greens that Greg told me to enjoy. If anyone wants to know what the salad is I'll be more then happy to share.
Before leaving I had thought about the possibilities that Detroit had when the geographical land scape of the city can be properly restructured and bring in the deep pockets to invest in the city and hire people from the city and metro area as well. Bloggers what do you think?
We had gotten the Mazola ready to plant and this had caught me extremely off guard. Greg said to get best results is to naturally start right from the beginning. So he pulls out a homemade blowtorch he put together. It was pretty much a propane tank any one of us would use with our grill in the backyard. He had told me he needed the top layer of soil to be warm for the Mazola seeds to survive. I decided to step neer the large greenhouse which was unbelievably humid. Greg went by a few sweeps with the blowtorch. I do have to say he was looking like a bad ass with it.
He finished and we planted the Mazola. Towards the end of my stay I had taken home a bag of greens grown and harvested in NoCo Detroit. I got home and made a great salad with the mixed greens that Greg told me to enjoy. If anyone wants to know what the salad is I'll be more then happy to share.
Before leaving I had thought about the possibilities that Detroit had when the geographical land scape of the city can be properly restructured and bring in the deep pockets to invest in the city and hire people from the city and metro area as well. Bloggers what do you think?
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