Film: Urban Roots August 4, 2011

URBAN ROOTS, directed by Detroit-native Mark McInnis is a documentary that tells the powerful story of a small group of unique individuals involved in Detroit’s urban agricultural movement.

The industrial powerhouse of a lost American era has died, and the skeleton left behind is present-day Detroit.

But now, against all odds in the empty lots, in the old factory yards, and in-between the sagging blocks of company housing, seeds of change are taking root. A small group of dedicated citizens, allied with environmental and academic groups, have started an urban environmental movement with the potential to transform not just a city after its collapse, but also a country after the end of its industrial age. Urban Roots is the story of a group of dedicated Detroiters working tirelessly to fulfill their vision for locally-grown, sustainably farmed food in a city where people -- as in much of the county -- have found themselves cut off from real food and limited to the lifeless offerings of fast food chains, mini-marts, and grocery stores stocked with processed food from thousands of miles away. The people of Detroit have taken on the enormous task of changing this for themselves, and to under-stand their story is to understand how we can change it for us all.

See the trailer here:
http://www.treemedia.com/t​reemedia.com/Urban_Roots.h​tml

Co-Sponsored by Transition Ypsilanti, Growing Hope, and the Ypsilanti Food Coop.