“Through the construction of urban gardens on abandoned city lots, Buckets of Rain diminishes urban blight, rekindles hope in struggling neighborhoods, brings fresh vegetables into the neighborhoods, and feeds the homeless through partners like the Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries and others. We have re-purposed 30 blighted lots into food production since 2013, and grown or provided hundreds of thousands of servings of vegetables, free of charge, to our partners and neighbors.”
This rapidly expanding effort of urban gardening yielding over 50,000 servings of locally grown food. A new parking lot garden now has over 220 raised beds and a half a mile of drip irrigation installed. Most of the raised beds are constructed from reclaimed materials. As of late Nov. 2014, they had converted 23 abandoned city lots into food producing urban farms.
“Harvesting occurs daily during the growing months and food is transported to soup kitchens and homeless shelters of the Detroit Rescue Mission. One day a week, at least, we make bags of fresh veggies available for direct pickup by neighborhood residents. By 2020, we aim to produce a million servings of fresh vegetables per season. This will require about 10 acres in continuous production and ten full time seasonal employees.”
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