Lunch & Learn Producers Panel
Sanctuary Farms Sanctuary Farms

Lunch & Learn Producers Panel

Check out the Lunch & Learn Producers Panel by the National Urban Agriculture Initiative, featuring our co-founder jøn kent! jøn shares what it means to be a farmer in Detroit and highlights the impactful projects we’re working on to uplift our community and protect the environment.

Read More
Know Your Farmer: Detroit Urban Growers
Sanctuary Farms Sanctuary Farms

Know Your Farmer: Detroit Urban Growers

Detroit has a thriving urban agriculture community, where residents use available vacant land to grow food, feed their families and neighbors, and run successful farm businesses. Keep reading to learn about a few urban growers activating vacant land, supporting the natural ecosystem, and strengthening the local food system!

Read More
USDA falls short on bridging gap with Detroit urban farmers
Sanctuary Farms Sanctuary Farms

USDA falls short on bridging gap with Detroit urban farmers

Detroit's first National Urban Agriculture Conference spotlighted urban farming but raised concerns over the USDA's Detroit office being located in Ann Arbor, leading to director Jamal Thomas' resignation. Local farmers, including Sanctuary Farms' Jon Kent, struggled to connect with the office. The event emphasized Detroit's leadership in urban agriculture.

Read More
Kiss the Ground: 5 with a Farmer
Sanctuary Farms Sanctuary Farms

Kiss the Ground: 5 with a Farmer

Did you know that Detroit is one of the top cities in the U.S. for urban agriculture, with over 2,200 gardens and farms? Detroit's Sanctuary Farms is bringing food to the people, helping build supportive food systems, and giving their community the opportunity to see how things are grown. They're also teaching us that farming can be wholesome, connected, and diverse.

Read More
Network Duality Project Proposal and Sanctuary Farms
Sanctuary Farms Sanctuary Farms

Network Duality Project Proposal and Sanctuary Farms

Network Duality is a conceptual framework that critically conceptualizes, analyzes, and contests issues around urban infrastructure through a network lens. It acknowledges that such infrastructure---be it transport, social, or digital---can simultaneously be inclusive and exclusive, offering connectivity and access for certain populations, places, or types of flows, while marginalizing or restricting others.

Read More
Seed Award Spotlight: Sanctuary Farms
Sanctuary Farms Sanctuary Farms

Seed Award Spotlight: Sanctuary Farms

n early 2024, 11 Seed Award winners were chosen to receive seed funding totaling almost $150,000, based on their businesses’ commitment to promoting racial equity, enhancing healthy food access, fostering job creation, and embracing resilient climate practices. 

Among these deserving winners is Sanctuary Farms, an organic farm in Detroit’s lower east side that has transformed city blocks into an urban oasis, providing fresh, affordable produce to the community.

Read More
Reflections on Mutual Aid: Mother Earth’s Call to Action for Regeneration by jøn kent
Sanctuary Farms Sanctuary Farms

Reflections on Mutual Aid: Mother Earth’s Call to Action for Regeneration by jøn kent

Living cooperatively is no easy task. As humans, we are all one species but we all have distinct fingerprints. This duality between self and group based identities might lead one to paralysis when analyzing human social life if we believe in the false narratives of the bootstrapping mentality. . However, for those who see mutual aid in all we do, we are able more readily to see our differences as the beauty of life.

Read More
The Good Life Italia
Sanctuary Farms Sanctuary Farms

The Good Life Italia

Catch us in The Good Life, an Italian publication that discusses fashion, lifestyle, and travel. While writing a piece about the City of Detriot, they reached out to us at Sanctuary Farms to learn more about the positive difference we’re out here making within the community.

Read More
Seed Award Spotlight: Sanctuary Farms 
Sanctuary Farms Sanctuary Farms

Seed Award Spotlight: Sanctuary Farms 

Michigan Good Food Fund is happy to announce the recipients of its inaugural Seed Awards, recognizing Michigan-based food and farm businesses making an impact in their communities. With a focus on promoting racial equity, enhancing healthy food access, fostering job creation, and embracing resilient climate practices, the Seed Awards are a cornerstone of the Michigan Good Food Fund’s commitment to supporting local food and farm entrepreneurs.

Read More