Anchoring a network of gardeners, farmers, and food system advocates throughout Detroit Keep Growing Detroit works tirelessly to realize a vision of a food sovereign city. Through its Garden Resource Program (GRP) and Grown in Detroit (GID), Keep Growing Detroit serves its community that includes over 1,500 gardens and farms, hyperlocal greenspaces, and its newly purchased headquarters farm right in Eastern Market.
Keep Growing Detroit is central to a local food justice movement that, thanks to decades of community-based leadership and organization, has become a leader in equitable and informed progressive change. Pathways has been honored to support Keep Growing Detroit, both in its programming before the pandemic, its critical pivoting to serve the emergent needs in the pandemic’s initial terrifying wave, and through the purchase of KGD’s first permanent home. Pathways is consistently inspired by the strength, thoughtfulness, and thoroughness of their work and implementation, as well as the way they collaborate with other food justice, environmental, and community organizations in the city.