Movie and Potluck: Grown In Detroit May 11, 2012

Join us at our next screening of the Sustainability Film Series, a collaboration between Growing Hope, Ypsi Food Coop, Transition Ypsi, and the Ypsi District Library. We attempt to feature films that teach about the building blocks of a sustainable and resilient community, such as sustainably grown food, clean and available water, stable infrastructure, good health, art & soul, economic justice, renewable energy, right livelihood, etc. The potluck begins at 6pm -- please bring a dish to pass!

Grown in Detroit is a film by Mascha Poppenk. In the last fifty years, Detroit (once one of the wealthiest cities in America) has transformed into one of the most economically and socially challenged. Where residents once had major supermarkets and affordable, healthy dining, now liquor stores sell groceries from behind bullet-proof glass, and fast food restaurants are rampant. However, despite Detroit's struggles, the city and its residents have emerged with their own solution. Detroit is transforming itself from Motown to GROWtown. Grown in Detroit focuses on the urban gardening efforts managed by a public school of 300, mainly African-American, pregnant and parenting teenagers at the Catherine Ferguson Academy.