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GROUP DETAILS
Created: Oct 10, 2007
Updated: Sep 28, 2009
Membership: Open
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Problem
Action
Detroit Summer is a multicultural, intergenerational, youth movement to rebuild, redefine and respirit Detroit from the ground up. Their main objective is to foster youth initiative through community beautification projects, visioning workshops, and intergenerational dialogues.
Services offered by the project:
Learning how to make urban land hospitibale to growing vegetables, fruits, flowers
Cultivation skills
Learn what it takes to be a local farmer
Community growth and community building
Results
The development of the Detroit Summer organic gardening
project lead them to the Gardeing Angels, an informal network created
by the late Gerald Hairston, former auto worker and passionate
environmentalist.This network consists mainly of African American
elders who seized the opportunity created by vacent lots and the citys
Farm-a-lot free seeds to plant gardens all over the city of Detroit.
The Gardening Angles lead the Detroit Summer gardening activists to Paul Weertz, a science teacher at Catherine Ferguson Academy (CFA), a public highschool for teenage mothers, who was helping his students learn respect for life and for the earth along with math and science by raising farm animals, planting a garden and fruit orchard, and building a barn. As a result, instead of dropping out in large numbers (about 80 percent) of these ladies stay in school and go on to college.
Limitations
When to Use
What to Do
Tips
Equipment
What/who: Environmental Protection Agency, Urban Planning award
Material donations: Gardening equipment and agricultural expertise
Loans: N/A
For: N/A
User fees: N/A
For: N/A
Assessment
Nature of the evaluation: With all Detroit Summer youth participating in the creation and development of new programs and improving existing ones, they take ownership of the program as they present ideas and create programs.
Related Resources
Partners within the community:
Many Detroit youth and staff from Detroit Summer and the Boggs Center to Nurture Community leadership.
Partners from outside the community:
Many University professors and students across the country have become
very interested in the community success and inspiration of Detroit
Summer and the community organic garden project. Every year students
and professors have come to work with these Detroit revitalization
projects ranging their stay anywhere from a few days to months at a
time. Some of these University students have moved to Detroit to become
a permanent part of the movement.
