Cultivating Local Food Sovereignty
Image taken of Keep Growing Detroit’s Garden
I take pride in creating systems that alleviate cognitive load and create space for more growth. I find automation to be an incredibly supportive tool to ensure robust communication throughout a process. I strongly believe in machine design that works in collaboration with human beings and nature to support production. My primary work focus is to support interdependent community cultivation. Much of this work involves the promotion of self empowerment through personal practices to align with regenerative work. There are many small and large-scale solutions for water conservation, local food production, and renewable energy independence that can be pursued through business. I am positioned to support your automation needs while I build my contribution.
Hans (Zack) Kaiser, CEO
“The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens.
If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.”
― Bill Mollison
Working with KB Gardens to continue a CSA Market Garden in a Suburb of Detroit. We are also cultivating a plot of land in the City of Detroit in collaboration with Bees in the D, furthering the mission of Keep Growing Detroit.
Mission
“Keep Growing Detroit’s mission is to promote a food sovereign city where the majority of fruits and vegetables consumed by Detroiters are grown by residents within the city’s limits. Our strategic approach to achieving our mission facilitates beginner gardeners becoming engaged community leaders and food entrepreneurs, addressing the immediate needs of the community while promoting sustainable change in our food system. To these ends, KGD operates a number of nationally recognized programs including the Garden Resource Program, which supports a network of more than 2,000 urban gardens and farms in the city and Grown in Detroit, which provides urban growers with low-barrier opportunities to sell the fruits and vegetables they grow at local market outlets. KGD also operates a 1.38-acre urban farm and teaching facility located in Detroit’s historic Eastern Market District”
-KGD
Vision
“Our vision is that there are places to grow food in every neighborhood in Detroit and that these places are scaled so they can be integrated into the fabric of the surrounding area and help maximize community and economic development opportunities that benefit residents.”
-KGD
