Goats in the city: Farms sprouting where schools once stood

Goats in the city: Farms sprouting where schools once stood | MLive.com:
 "MUSKEGON, MI -- Detroit Public Schools has settled on a new use for abandoned schools that Muskegon could take a lesson from: urban farms.
Already firmly entrenched in school gardening, Detroit school officials have a vision to transform the former Kettering High School property into a huge urban farm.
Betti Wiggins, the executive director of Detroit Public Schools' Office of School Nutrition, came to Muskegon Thursday to describe that vision -- and to encourage the expansion of school gardening here.
Like the Muskegon area, only on a much larger scale, Detroit is dotted with closed school buildings. And like Muskegon, Detroit has embraced urban farming.
Wiggins combined the two.
"Instead of leaving it to the vandals, we're going to repurpose it," Wiggins said of the 27-acre Kettering site.
The vision includes hoop houses and eventually even a food processing facility."