{"id":76722,"date":"2020-11-12T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=76722"},"modified":"2020-11-12T16:14:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T16:14:00","slug":"it-took-group-black-farmers-start-fixing-land-ownership-problems-detroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/it-took-group-black-farmers-start-fixing-land-ownership-problems-detroit\/","title":{"rendered":"It Took a Group of Black Farmers to Start Fixing Land Ownership Problems in Detroit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><em><strong>With commercial real estate at a premium and out-of-town speculators holding on to land in Detroit, Black farmers had to join together to secure land access.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">It took them 20 minutes to reach their goal. The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/local\/michigan\/detroit\/2020\/07\/13\/fund-black-farmers-raises-thousands-help-buy-more-land\/5386827002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">campaign ultimately raised nearly $55,000<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Tepirah Rushdan was talking to her best friend about how they could help Black people in Detroit own the land where they farmed, and they just decided to go for it. The two urban farmers decided to create a GoFundMe to raise $5,000 to do that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">\u201cThat demonstrates what the need is,\u201d said Jerry Hebron, executive director of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oaklandurbanfarm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Avenue Urban Farm<\/a>. She joined Rushdan on the project, called the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/detroit-black-farmer-land-fund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Detroit Black Farmer Land Fund<\/a>. \u201cWhen you have Black farmers trying to make a living, we don\u2019t need them to be land insecure.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Providing Black farmers with land security was one of the reasons Hebron, Rushdan and representatives from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dbcfsn.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Detroit Black Community Food Security Network<\/a>&nbsp;(DBCFSN) D-Town Farm launched the GoFundMe campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">It took them 20 minutes to reach their goal. The&nbsp;campaign ultimately raised nearly $55,000.&nbsp;Tepirah Rushdan was talking to her best friend about how they could help Black people in Detroit own the land where they farmed, and they just decided to go for it. The two urban farmers decided to create a GoFundMe to raise $5,000 to do that.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":76723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4,5],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>It Took a Group of Black Farmers to Start Fixing Land Ownership Problems in Detroit - Organic Consumers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/it-took-group-black-farmers-start-fixing-land-ownership-problems-detroit\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"It Took a Group of Black Farmers to Start Fixing Land Ownership Problems in Detroit - Organic Consumers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It took them 20 minutes to reach their goal. 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