Laura Cassar - It's all been incremental for Tyson Gersh, co-founder and president of the Michigan Urban Farming Initiative, a volunteer-based farm in Detroit's North End. Over the past five years, he's led 8,000 volunteers to produce 50,000 pounds of food, feeding over 2,000 individual city households. And he's nowhere near done. Detroit's North End has benefited from about $4 million in investments because of the farm, according to Gersh's calculations, based on surveys with property owners in the area. It
Laura Cassar - It's all been incremental for Tyson Gersh, co-founder and president of the Michigan Urban Farming Initiative, a volunteer-based farm in Detroit's North End. Over the past five years, he's led 8,000 volunteers to produce 50,000 pounds of food, feeding over 2,000 individual city households. And he's nowhere near done. Detroit's North End has benefited from about $4 million in investments because of the farm, according to Gersh's calculations, based on surveys with property owners in the area. It