We aim to collaborate fruitfully with community members and organizations to establish a network of resources and support for addressing food security issues in the Capital area. 

Early Stages:

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

Our second year, we will receive Urbandale, and other Greater Lansing community members as collaborative gardners 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 efforts with our partners to further address Lansing's food insecurity issues. 

Long Term Plans:

To develop a urban agroecological garden-to-plate system. This entails the establishment of hoop houses at our Hayford garden, a food pantry, food processing and packaging facility. These measures will provide our collaborators addressing the food insecurity issues of our community members with locally grown, processed, and prepared food that also contributes to our goal of food sovereignty by avoiding regional, national, and global food system conglomerates and their exploitation of the environment and vulnerable migrant farm labor.