About Us
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
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.
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History
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.
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Look what we accomplished together!
Keep Growing Detroit is proud to be a part of Detroit's food ecosystem. Through our various programs, we are collaborating with more than hundreds of organizations to address the needs of our community together.
Learn more in our 2023 Annual Report!
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Research
KGD maintains a robust practice of data collection, evaluation, and research. We love to share what we’re learning with our community as frequently as possible.
Here are a few of the latest reports and journal articles that we were a part of:
Harvesting Sustainble Water Solutions: A study looking at the connections between urban agriculture and urban storm water management.
Accompanying stories from our Storytelling Project.
How Gardening in Detroit Influences Physical and Mental Health
