Essex County College Presenting Program on Urban Farming

Essex County College (ECC) will present a program on Impacting Food Access and Food Policy: Detroit Urban Farming as a Model on Wednesday, Nov. 13. The program by Kwamena Mensah, a co-founding member of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the college’s Green Area Multi-Purpose Room, Dr. A. Zachary Yamba Building, 303 University Ave.

Mensah has been involved in the network since its founding in 2006. An urban agriculture specialist, he has served on the Michigan Food Policy Council.

Detroit, which has tens of thousands of buildings following a decades-long exodus from the city, is a center of the urban farming movement, where space once given over to industry and housing is being converted to agricultural use.

Additional information is available from the Office of the Dean of Liberal Arts at Essex County College at (973) 877-3159.