Farming in Detroit

Over the years, Iowa political leaders have dreamed of bringing an auto manufacturing plant here to the cornbelt. Gov. Chet Culver and Mike Blouin bickered over the potential for making flex-fuel vehicles in Iowa during the 2006 Democratic primary campaign.

Now, investors in Detroit are dreaming of turning land abandoned by the auto industry into farmland. From the LA Times:

"There's so much land available and it's begging to be used," said Michael Score, president of the Hantz Farms, which is buying up abandoned sections of the city's 139-square-mile landscape and plans to transform them into a large-scale commercial farm enterprise.

It won't be long before the Lions put "ANF" stickers on their helmets.

"Farming is how Detroit started," Score said, "and farming is how Detroit can be saved."