simple farmer

“If you’re not aware of context in which you’re operating, if you’re not aware of the social and political dynamics, if you’re not aware of the last 50 years of struggle for black empowerment in the city of Detroit, and you just fall down out of wherever you came from and you plop in here and you say, ‘Well, I’m here, and I’m going to do farming,’ then you’re likely going to move in a way which is not going to be supportive of community goals and aspirations, and perhaps could even undermine those,” said Malik Yakini, the executive director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, and a native of Detroit.

— Read on www.marketplace.org/2018/03/27/sustainability/detroits-new-urban-farms-bring-both-welcome-change-and-raise-questions