Early Stages (years one & two:

During our first year, we initiated the development of an urban agroecology and agroforestry demonstration garden in the Lansing Eastside neighborhood of Urbandale. Most of the harvest from the first year's crop went to our collaborators, whose work addressed the food insecurity issues faced by our local unhoused community members. 

In our second year, we will receive Urbandale and other Greater Lansing community members as collaborative gardeners in our Las Moreras urban agroecology garden. We also secured the lease of a large, adjacent lot previously utilized by the Lansing Urban Farm Project. We plan to scale up our planning and collaboration with partners to address Lansing's food insecurity issues more effectively. 

Long Term Plans (three to five years):

To develop an urban agroecological farm-to-plate system. This entails establishing a high tunnel at our second Hayford location and securing partnerships for a food pantry, food processing, and packaging facility. These measures will provide our collaborators and us with locally grown, processed, and prepared food that also contributes to our goal of food sovereignty by avoiding global food system conglomerates and their exploitation of the environment and vulnerable migrant farm labor.