Detroit Mercy Law’s Urban Agriculture course gives students a new perspective on the city’s legal landscape

    Detroit Mercy Law’s Urban Agriculture class tours one of the greenhouses at RecoveryPark in Detroit. L-R: Prof. Jacqueline Hand, Emina Alic, Matt Grove, Michael Delehant, Esther Harris, Prof. Amanda Gregory, Alicia Schomaker, Jenna Swartzmiller.

    Something extraordinary is happening in neighborhoods all around the city of Detroit. Hundreds of lots formerly plagued by abandoned houses and crab grass are now home to chicken coops, flower and vegetable gardens, and large-scale drip irrigation fields blooming with crops of all kinds.

    Detroit Mercy Law’s Urban Agriculture class tours one of the greenhouses at RecoveryPark in Detroit. L-R: Prof. Jacqueline Hand, Emina Alic, Matt Grove, Michael Delehant, Esther Harris, Prof. Amanda Gregory, Alicia Schomaker, Jenna Swartzmiller.

     

    Detroit Mercy Law students Alicia Schomaker and Matt Grove get up close and personal with the livestock at Pingree Farms in Detroit.

     

    Pingree Farms owner Jim Green introduces Prof. Amanda Gregory to a turkey.