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ROI Urban Farms

Detroit's first USDA NOP, Demeter Biodynamic, Real Organic, (2015-May 17, 2023), now Sun and Earth "Regenerative-Organic",(2020-)Farm.
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We provide a variety of different types of products including fruits, vegetables, herbs, medicinal, and essential oils. Detroit's first certified bio-dynamic Farm, Orchards, and Compost operation. Sprouts, wheat grass, medicinals, and essential oils.

09/04/2024

Growing requires work to be done in tune with the season. It’s not on automatic, in containers nor part of any water-soluble system. It’s in the where the magic really happens. As we slide into the first week of September its safe to say that any new that are forming, will not come to Fruition by the first frost here in . This is the time to clean off all remaining suckers and fan leaves and lift the heavily laden vines up into the golden sun light. Cleaning the cores removes the habitat for white flies and fungus and allow a clear site line for our friends the straight on into the waiting yellow flowers. With the temperatures cooling at night the fruit enjoy an elevated position to ‘sugar-up^’ slowly making for the best Sauce. And those who like’a the sauce, know that late summer Roma’ s are da best. It’s the last time we feed them before saying thank you and good night.

08/30/2024

The is baking and the are being . We will have both and as well as available tomorrow from 9-1 at

08/30/2024

For those of you out there whom may be interested, we have 4) born and raised that we will be bringing out the GPP Farmers market this Saturday Aug 31. They make perfect House plants for the winter and outdoor patio plants for the Summer. We also can provide instruction on how to force the plants to fruit, but mind you, they only do it once in a lifetime! Park Farmers Market - GPP

08/24/2024

is out at the until 1 today. Stop by and grab all the delicious goodies.

08/24/2024

Andrea Meyers is out at the farmstand until one today. She has peaches, eggplant, hot and sweet peppers, watermelon, beets, tomatoes, luffa soap, creamsicle jam, salsa, tomato sauce, pickled peppers, chutney, and pickled cantaloupe available. Stop on by and say hi!

08/23/2024

We will be out tomorrow from 9-1 at the Park Farmers Market - GPP. No zucchini bread 😢, but we will have peaches! We will also have assorted canned goods, hot and sweet peppers, tomatoes, melons, zucchini, eggplant, and much more!

08/21/2024

“The Moon has Dominion over Water on Earth”, Zohar 1046 AD (for the experts out there lets level ^). In Harmony with Her Grace the Full Moon arrival here in Detroit on Aug. 19th @ 2:25 PM ESFT the team took to the fields once more to, “harness the forces available to everyone” R. Steiner 1924 (include Gen 3 Oliver who has become a fruit eating monster!).

Seasonal Biodynamic Preparations ( #500, #501, #508) where spun for an hour and applied. The spent biomass tissue and weeds were hand harvested as shipped towards/onto the compost heap. For us average folk out here growing vegetables at home for the kids and family, I think it is important to immediately cover your beds of creation with fresh compost or Decomposed woodchips or bark to keep feeding the living life of the soil, (worms included!), while protecting the vitality from atmospheric or storm surface run off.

We continue with our research and testing on how to create greater elemental assimilation/nutritive density, yield-volumetrics, weight? In other words imagine a way to trans-configure with fire, your intended result into a minimal surface design, creating “greater edge” to be conjoined-instantaneously-assimilated, shipped straight up to the new forms/vessel, on the exact day when the total sunlight in Detroit dips to less than 14 hrs……., what then?
fueled by system design

08/16/2024

Third generation, inner-city Detroit regenerative organic urban farmer. Following in the footsteps of uncle grandpa harvesting in the rain.

08/08/2024

Yesterday we were wonderfully joined by some new junior farmers, who even brought their own wheel barrel to help. Ajax oversaw the whole operation as we harvested wheel barrel after wheel barrel full of delicious, . is

08/02/2024

It’s watermelon time!

07/28/2024

Nutritive density continues. Cantaloupe will be available this Saturday from 9-1 at Park Farmers Market - GPP

07/27/2024

5 gallon bucket of stone weighs on average 67 pounds. This 5 gallon bucket of Weighs 33 pounds, or half as much as stone. Elemental assimilation is nutritive density, that’s a fact.

07/25/2024

Just some of the many beautiful things coming out of our

07/23/2024

The Full Moon arrived in on Sunday July 21 at 6:16 ESFT, once again the team was there to meet Her Grace. As I awake each morning and watch the Sunrise slide into fall, I looked back over the last 15 years of our Spiritual based farming practice to find things I can be thankful for. I am thankful for my son growing up on a Biodynamic Farm all his life, breathing the Air and eating the Food it creates. I am thankful for the fact that he likes to get up early, (sometimes) and mix up the we spray at every Full or New Moon event. I am thankful for the committed farmers/practitioners who could make more money elsewhere but instead choose to stay committed and present to our practice. Andrea, Burda, Master Joe, young master Nick Doggett and our worthy apprentice Raphael Neum are awesome people to see every day! I am thankful for our that never cease to amaze me. I am thankful for my Grandson Oliver who is growing up on a farm in the Middle Detroit MI and eats the produce from the Earth we created and continue to make every Spring. What I am mostly thankful for is that everyone that practices here has learned that the insect kingdom is diverse and all part of Her plan. Not something you spray or poison because in mother nature’s divine system everyone is welcomed and has a purpose, this is how the balanced is maintained. We invented microworlds to live, play and practice in the center of industrial decay, where the only thing we spray other than preparations #500, #501 and #508 is purified water. We choose to live a life that challenges the status quo as an example of the change we wish to see not only here in but for the entire world.

07/20/2024

We are out here at the Park Farmers Market - GPP from 9-1 today. We have so many goodies available including zucchini bread and pickles!

07/16/2024

07/08/2024

The New Moon Arrived in Detroit on Friday July 5th at 6:57 PM ESFT. 48 hours prior, the team was once again in full swing to meet her Grace at the appointed time with the 8th spraying of the #500, #501 & 508 of this season. Looking back over the 15 years of practice, I have always used the same wooden stick to stir the preparations. Recently I bought some new ones for the crew and did a comparison check, the word Grinding came to mind. Raphael and Master Joe Murray attended to the Biointensive raised beds as some already have seen their third crop of the season. Along the way they couldn’t help themselves and feasted on and . Master Nick Doggett went mobile to the visit the Peach & Watermelon beds and the Soring Sweet Corn before heading over to the to make his application. The are coming in and in a few weeks the Peaches will follow! As the Moon Sailed through the elemental forces of Air = Flower July 2-4 I continued on with the teaching of to promote better health and results! is

07/01/2024

The Summer Solstice and Full Moon of June arrived 29 hours apart here in Detroit, June 20 and 21st. This is the time that all of our garden and farm plots shift into hi gear. Trusty Ajax’s is always up for an early morning session. The early Boysenberry’s are coming in by the bucket at the homestead farm and quickly are being made into Jam for sale at the Farmers markets on Wed. and Saturdays. This years study is finally off to the races. are filling in nicely where at our compost yard the is reaching to the sky while the and Raphael’s radiate in living Colour’s. Brought to you once again by the team from

06/29/2024

Just some of the goodies we have available today at the we will be out here until one. Come on down to the corner of Kercheval and Lakepointe and get your goodies!

Park Farmers Market - GPP

06/14/2024

For those of you out there who are concerned with Bees and the future here is a summary from the Department of Biological Sciences, Director of the Center for Great Lakes and Watershed studies, Bowling Green State University, they conducted a study at our farm regarding cucumber pollinators. I really did not know the number one cause of bee death is overheating!

First, thank you again for participating in our study! We have been working hard on processing samples and data from the previous summers and want to share two flyers with you. The first is a summary of the most common bees found at your location, plants commonly visited by bees at your site, and pollinator-friendly plants for your region. The second is an initial summary of results across all locations in all 10 cities across the US. We will provide additional updates as results become available. Thanks again for your participation and support!

Cheers!

KEVIN E. MCCLUNEY, PHD

06/13/2024

The real disease of Detroit is entitlement. Too lazy to get out of the car. I thought they just reach out and clip off all the heavy branches laden with sweet cherries. They don’t care about nature they don’t care about trees they don’t care about anything with regards to Mother Nature. Getting out of the car to get a couple of handful or the kids passing by on the street on the way to the park. I totally get and think is beautiful but someone lazy hacking at a tree from a car sickens me.

06/11/2024

In America we need to think about how many farmers there are actually out there making it happen..... know your farmer, know your food....

06/06/2024

Altruism is strange concept to many Americans and can be especially difficult to see and understand by living a life of consumption, filled with processed lifeless “swollen and empty food”. allege the understandings but often fail in the practice, here in Detroit the team Spiritual Belief continues on with the consorted effort. All kids of all colour’s can reach down, over or up^ to sample filled with the and Her . In harmony with the New Moons Arrival here in Detroit today @ 8:37 Am ESFT is thriving expression of brilliant color. Yesterday marked our 6th application of the #500, #501 and #508. The kids on the sidewalk are out enjoying a better world imagined from a heart pure in intent. One not corrupted by the purist of materialism. We challenge all to take a stand and be the change you wish to see in the world! To those local, near and far we invite you to stop by visit and feel the inclusivity and the love of nature we help to create.
AUM

06/05/2024

It’s the first official farmstand day of the year! We will be at The Congregation from 4-8 pm tonight (most likely inside due to the rain). Come say hi to all the vendors and help kick off the first farmer’s market!

05/23/2024

Back in the good ole days (now) used to have a bold statement on their home page, “Healing the Planet through Agriculture”. Long ago I challenged this assertion and asked how can you quantify that? That bold statement was removed, yet during the last 7 years the Team thought we would take the Journey and show people what the power of can achieve and share with others our image-based belief/the realities that have been created though our committed efforts.

Our 7720 Chicago Blvd. Address, (where we make our ) was once a lubricating machine oil manufacturing company built to help support the World War II efforts of the “Arsenal of Democracy” as was referred to back then. It was a ‘Super Fund EPA site’ that went through an initial cleansing at great expense to the American Tax payers. When we arrived in 2017 it was a dead lifeless space with the NW corner being filled with decades of illegal dumping. Cleaning up and removing the old tires and construction debris took two months during the late fall early winter of 2019, and involved well over 1000 cubic meters of our compost to elevate up and above the 6” of gravel we spread to cap the entire site. Our goal was to heal the land, turn it back to organic-nature, so it could be used someday to grow food. We planted H**p to suck out the poison’ just beneath the surface and left the Cottonwood Trees standing so they could continue doing their job of sucking out the poison at a deeper level. We devised various ways to capture store and re-use all of the 2.50 Acres of surface storm water run-off which now supports/creates Life itself. From the Frogs who sing in the Moon light to our resident family of Ducks, to the Cayotes and various birds’ species that swoop in or stop by to take a drink, we are all thank full. Now we find ourselves coming full Circle.

Back in 1991 our farm manger/my eldest daughter Andrea’s Mom asked me to grow sweet corn for the kids outside of our home in Franklin Village MI. At that time, I tried to explaining to her-(Shelia) that you need a field to grow sweet corn not a small plot. Sadly, Andreas Mom Died a few months ago, so this season we decided to plant a Memorial Garden in her honor and get all the Kids and now the Grandkids the sweet corn that she asked for some 33 years ago…

So in Harmony with the Full Moons arrival here in Detroit at 9:52 AM this morning, just after the rain, the healed land was cracked open and tilled, Andrea installed the in Harmony with our understandings. I as sit here and write in Joy I cannot help but imagine what the Bike riders and visiting world travelers might say as the view our place from on the newly created trail as they come through the adjacent industrial landscape and flow around the corner and see a certified farm right along the 26-mile bike trail, right here in Detroit.

RIP Shelia your daughters are amazing people, Andrea knows how to “Heal the Land through Agriculture”

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Something that is often not discussed, but should be addressed is the total lack of respect and disregard that the #pgatour has for the communities surrounding the golf courses that they choose to hold tournaments at. Earlier today, during our organic inspection, two drivers from Hollywood Equipment Transportation came on to our property and rudely asked us to move our cars. After, two drivers again came on to our property, threatened our employees saying “suck my dick” to male and female employees, “I’ll make you drink soup”, and “I want to hit someone and your high on the list” and shoving one of our employees. To top it off one of the driver’s young child was in the car and heard all of this. Yet another disgusting example of the lack of disrespect people have for one another. We grow our food to lift and support our community and yet again here is another example of how the entitled elite spit upon those lesser than them. #pgatour #RocketMortgage #rocketmortgageclassic #detroit #worldstarhiphop #pga #disrespectful #DetroitGolfClub

it’s moments like these that are so disheartening and make us question why we chose practice our craft. If you have ever visited our farm, purchased produce from us, or talked with anyone who works at ROI, you would know that we pride ourselves on giving back to the community. Most of our produce is donated to numerous charities and food banks around the city of Detroit. We openly and fully heartedly give people who are less fortunate than us food and plants all the time. Luckily we were ready and the old man and our guard dog were able to intercept these thieves on their bicycles and get back one of the tomato plants.

The Spiritual Renewal side of Biodynamics lives in purity without entitlement, arrogance or false claims that many in the ‘community’ make on being an/the authority on a subject that they did not invent and perhaps even to this very day, fail to fully understand. Materialism makes many new prisoners every day, corruption is a natural extension of materialism, one cannot live or exists without the other. The city of Detroit’s bankruptcy for me the clearest example of how it all falls apart in the end, only this time the prisoners did not even get a chance to riot or burn the place down. Instead, they had their homes foreclosed and were forced to hit the streets looking for whatever they could find. Last Friday marked the 9th time that we have had to deal with the prisoners on the prowl, this year by far was the worst. It started in the spring with the Stealing our Demeter Statue who had been with us since the start of our farming practice in 2009 and has continued at our compost yard 8 separate times since. In Detroit it comes at you from all sides, the Kleptocracy #cityofdetroitadministration that makes it up every step of the way. The Community groups that claim what you invent, steal it, and then write false statements that challenge your #biodynamicfarm history and accreditation, #peopleforpalmerpark. All the way down the line to your neighbors, whom probably missed the lecture from the 10 commandants especially the one about “thou shall not steal”. Senator Thomas Palmers Log Cabin Farm turned Palmer Park deserved better. The neighborhood where my Mum grew up, turned crack pipe-drug-dealing-ho-walking-what-for-sale-hood deserved better, especially the children that live here too and have become our friends. We believe “… a society justly formed shall provide food to be clean and wholesome. To help the weak and the needy and check all selfish wrongdoings; Self-denial to be learnt by fasting: The courage to fight in defiance of right, chari

The unseen revealed in Living Colours. #sunandearthcertified

Rain or Shine we are at The Congregation farmers market until 7 pm.

We are out here at The Congregation from 3-7 for the farmers market. Come by and check out all the great venders and get some delicious fruits and veggies!