Brother Rick Samyn, head of the Capuchin Monastery Soup Kitchen, is working with the Greening of Det

"Brother Rick Samyn, head of the Capuchin Monastery Soup Kitchen, is working with the Greening of Detroit (a non-profit group dedicated to re-foresting the city) and a southwest Detroit neighborhood to create a five-acre farm and orchard inside Romanowski Park. Students, parents, and faculty at nearby O.W. Holmes Elementary School were involved, too, holding design parties to create a framework for the farm's development."

Source: Rhea, Shawn, "Detroit Renaissance," YES!, Summer 2003, 46

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