wrong in fact that the warming has on the dryness of the vegetation with 2 more months before the fire season ends it looks like california is headed for more destruction robert oulds al jazeera los angeles. and let's take a look at some of the headlines here now and is there now donald trump has briefly left the hospital where he's being treated for coronavirus to do a drive by the hundreds of supporters outside the u.s. president was seen waving to crowds from a vehicle outside the walter reed medical center john hendren has more. well it was perhaps the most brazen campaign stop in political history a candidate and president so ill that he's on an experimental cocktail of drugs and has taken oxygen twice to supplement his own low oxygen levels climbing with

a mask into a motorcade and rolling by on both sides of this street here the hundreds of fans that are lined up to pay tribute to him it was a classic trump moment but like many of those trump moments it is divided america thrilling the crowds out here in the street but alarming medical authorities who come to move incredibly irresponsible. early adopters treating trauma said they'd given him dexamethasone steroids the wealthy world health organization only recommends full severe cases. also revealed his oxygen levels dropped briefly on both friday and saturday they say he could be discharged from hospital though as early as monday. u.s. attorney general william barr is going into quarantine as a precaution after close contact with several republican politicians who become infected with corona virus was that the white house event for supreme court nominee

amy kelly barrett last week. and armenia are accusing each other of targeting civilians in their conflict over no go no care about the region's capital came under sustained bombardment killing at least 10 people jan says 2 of its cities were attacked. people in the south pacific territory of new caledonia have now only voted to stay part of france in the 2nd referendum in 3 years around 53 percent of the votes cast were against independence tensions of long run deep between pro independence indigenous can x. and descendants of color in your settlers who remain loyal to paris new caledonia became a french colony in 853 we're back that's where i am steve clemons i quickly because these days it's hard to filter out the noise and keep track of what's really important even the bottom line tackles the big issues this issue 100

states its people its economy and the way it deals with the rest of the world the bottom line only on al-jazeera. and i welcome again to rebuy and i'm elizabeth piron and our task here on rewind is to dig out some of the best and most influential films from the past decade and to find out how the story has moved on since one of the earliest series launched here on al-jazeera was earthrise a show which tackles increasingly important issues of climate change but also tries

to find good news stories wherever it can back in 2012 reporter russell baer traveled to detroit and the heart of the u.s.a.'s decaying rust belt a city built on common you fracturing he was on the trail of a growing urban farming movement aiming to change the face of detroit and reverse decades of decay rewind recently returned to see how that movement progressed the 1st let's take a look at motown to grow town from 2012. in 1900 detroit covered 30 square miles and was home to just 300000 people with an economy based on manufacturing the railroad cars farming and timber industries. thanks to the introduction of the mass assembly line by the 1920 s. detroit was the world capital of automotive production and america's 4th largest city. 50 years on and things were very different the major auto companies moved

their factories out of the city to the suburbs and the workers followed meanwhile the city's racial tensions were exploding into some of the bloodiest race riots in american history. today more than a 1000000 taxpayers have moved out of detroit leaving behind 40 square miles of vacant land nearly $40000.00 abandoned houses and a municipal government struggling to pay the bills. for many detroit is the epitome of urban blight but to find out how detroit's urban environment is already showing signs of a green renewal we head across town to georgia street community garden. set up a few years ago by mark colvin tin urban farming pioneer and local hero mark. a man you know i. am i have to lead a neighborhood when i was younger it was a car dealership owner on down the street we had restaurants all the stores shoe

shops everything needed was right here. and. over half a 1000000 detroit is live closer to convenience stores than groceries and with limited public transport nearly half of the city living below the poverty line access to healthy affordable food is often a challenge they call if you don't drive it and you can't get out of town the malls where people buy food. like this. or das stations and the little scarce markets that we grocery store that we do that we do have places where people can go get food but it's how healthy it is you know and how cheap i cannot employ is what you buy you know when you come here and you get a you know. sized pepperoni pizza for a dollar. all

this used to be how this is just a bacon street cred right now. then they get lots are vacant houses to one inhabited house. people move to the suburbs for a better life and the more people do move away. the less tax breaks we had on this tax base the same comforted in the mean is that i don't want people don't realize what a tax base really means to a city you know as far as getting things done and having money word play so a lot of things we have to do on our own. and messy you know police in each other and cleaning up after each other. but this this is where it all started. i lost my job in the summer of 2007 i had to move back home on george street with my mother my grandmother and. i came

out when the snow started melting off all the garbage trucks powered up on the curb and in the process of cleaning it up. i just said i need to put some food here and i'll hear you know work and start talking to people in the neighborhood and finding out that a lot of us are struggling you know our senior citizens we try to choose whether to pay for them or by medicaid. and i decided to make it bigger everything i've done i've tried to engage to it you mean but it's easy for me because i know everybody so. if you had much help here in the garden from the city not really other than because technically having a community garden is illegal still as he goes right yes growing food. is technically illegal to see detroit family living like columbus ohio and friends i mean mississippi which is

a farming state don't know if i'm going in detroit yeah i'm like yeah right the middle of detroit you can go to chicken in detroit i'm like yeah right in the middle of detroit so i can hear them actually in the distance it's a huge debts and says that's a pheasant you can a present you know. what. i g q yeah we've got pheasants rabbit. fox if you if you took a shot right here and we're right across the street it looks like you're in the force of the space that can go from a no when people ask you what you do to say what i've been planning. my coding tints no the only open farmer in detroit in fact he's part of a growing movement when i started school and seedlings in the house my dining room i'm living it was full of plants somebody sent me emails and there was

a meeting of gardeners and they were telling them about the different resources that they offer it's all like a weight was lifted off my shoulders. just to just. you know. must take me to earth would highly productive urban agriculture and education hub supplies would be city farmers with everything they need from support to seedlings morning. a month or so you know the idea is to be able to have a space where folks can learn how to grow food at a level that. would be for their own economic interest so if they were trying to grow it to start a farm where they made money or if they were trying to grow it at a scale in order to provide a really nice amount for their family and i introduce you guys real quick to this is russell yes we can find him a spot this is a lot of our youth works at. training program and we're learning to be our bombers so what we working with here. think that's

a good one that's got some good routes on it that he should go through how i got into it because i have i have young children i want to be able to grow as i think i'm going out with this one of the most revolutionary acts you can as high decibel am and i also have a small. beginning catering company so how can a girl cook or purposes you want to make a business this year you trade is not only unhealthy financially but with health i don't know 1st popular i think you can do so here yourself is to go from the u.k. . so we do it ourselves we know what we have. and try to be gentle with them they're just so fragile these little things will not scatter it was saying it's stronger than you realize really. folks oftentimes think of the gardens as that and the farm as being what we do but we see it as being more like the canvas upon what we do our work that really the work is about people these seedlings will be distributed to over

a 1000 families in community gardens all over the city on the days when we pick up transplants it's like a carnival there's so many people want to one you know. this is a hope house part of it is using this as being sort of the classroom but then showing that it can be replicated on a smaller level you know you can go out to the hardware store and do this instead of being dependent that's one thing being able to provide the food but you think people would start more fresh fruit vegetables if it was available as a country we don't not grow enough fresh fruits and vegetables for what we're supposed to be eating so that capacity has to ramp up of that we have to be growing new farmers that are growing fresh fruits and vegetables. the flipside of that is how do we get folks to eat fresh fruits and i think it's relationship based and i think for most the folks you talk to that find this work very sacred almost always there's going to be some sort of memory attached to it it might be way back in the back of their mind but when you start asking them they'll almost say you know it's . as a parent or grandparent or my neighbor taught me how to do this and we carry that with us still this is my friend peter floyd. one of the pioneers in

bloody for taking over vacant lots and. having doors. as it would allow to. you if you were a. lawyer this image to do it is moved to detroit as a child and in a 40 years living on mount olivet street she's seen a lot of changes so how many houses used to be on the street 6464. and i can count 123. x. 56 literally just 6 you can see from here we have done this 1st lot right here and then the next house got torn down to the next one but then we kept on going until we got down to the end so how many how many looked to be adopted so far just $28.00 just $28.00 foot this is good washing thing is the piggery bush. they are delicious read good schools. wow this looks great and what do you think

mark what do you reckon to all this learn. a lot of work it is a lot of work but it's fun oh yeah and. i've always there are good tire but it's a good tired but not content with utilizing detroit's adopt a low program that allows residents to lease abandoned properties for personal use it is plans to turn the whole street into a drive through fruit market and if they want they can get out and picket them cialis only if they call me a day before i have it ready do you believe that this is you're going to be able to manage that this is easy all you got to do is have the whip mitt you can zip through the a note. you just got the grant money she needed to buy the. by volunteering to maintain the local park. just think i was cut it with a push number one. it won't be brought up but 2 or 3 lot more some less it does not

work you need to get a tractor i can't believe this just remember we're in the middle of detroit. oh. ok ok so we're going to do some touring here now we're going to let you look. at it. and thanks to this you can turn that wears learn that tall grass into into productive formulate it into a template fashion because i can plow implant those whole thing in one day yeah that's how fast it is and you think there's a real need for that in detroit right now yes because right now i can't walk to the office store is so far apart you can go to the gas station to get joe but to get

fresh food is no way no way around you. need to get a goal 7 miles on a have a ceasefire in miles to get the food you need. is so much later in your why business it didn't go to nothing i rather what with the laying in the world and yet killing . i like to. use the law. is not free and if these people any taking are you taking i mean it. after decades of urban decay the city's getting back on track with improvements to public transport services in the installation of thousands of energy efficient streetlights despite being on the brink of bankruptcy in a city investment is totaled over $9000000000.00 since 2006. to stake a claim in the city while it's still going cheap the last 10 years so 59 percent

rise in young graduates moving into the cities core reinventing arts and cultural one on the outskirts a new wave of. social rights. but really. if he could you see here in the city this market the. streets i have heard. here. which was much smaller than it is now in national. and feed. there is an agriculture. world here we take everything eastern market. and. the big trucks yeah yeah people love their cars and. people

want to brand it is this you know green plays which is great and people are kind of taking on that mentality still detroit still always going to have a big cars until. then people have to figure something else that yeah. we don't use any kind of chemical fertilizers or sprays or anything just lots of. hard work. in detroit for about 7 years now so it does better and better each year because you're selecting the ones that do the best and like oh my goodness i just. really love. match. living some kind of new. dream here. is going to give. yeah most of the folks that still live

here now kind of have been through hell and back you know in this neighborhood with crack issues and drugs and gangs and whatever and so i feel like the folks that are here now are probably not going anywhere they've kind of. thing i mean i think that we need to slowly transition to a smaller scale more sustainable agriculture and i think pretty you know soon that like economically just will make sense to grow the way we do now you know our all our whole in style or society is completely reliant on the fact that oil is cheap yes so once that one element isn't so cheap anymore i mean. everything will change and i think our culture has taught people that you know you should have whatever you want you know t.v. tells you buy buy buy and this is not the reality when you live in a low resource economy you know you have to support each other you have to work together you got to share resources and that's what detroit is doing in the eastern market is one of the largest open air markets in the united states and it's been

growing steadily despite detroit suburbanite stations all but knowing your farm are very important to believe the story from you know you got the preferred stock in both the i probably do farmers are pretty particular we're up against the standards . detroit's probably a little behind the times when it comes to like the whole food local food thing and especially the organic thing but i feel like it's changing every year. to be tried or sometimes shoots are appreciated richard we're so far out there about 2 miles from here that you're buying stuff in season here or instead of stuff that's being trucked in from who knows how far ahead and it might it might have something on it you don't want to eat but you'll never know every saturday both 45000 people come here to do the shopping. and community here if you spend enough time down here you get to know your cellars you get to know your farmers good morning how are you

and did you pick these just so this morning is just the final time but i'm not thrilled about it you need something someone to tell us everything you know no matter how much you make a few dollars as well as you go to put gas in a tank that's good enough to move the. earth. which you think about these you if you see new. yeah. yeah it's going. to reach out you know no more diversity than we have in the past but. it's going to get the biggest challenge in the city here his land shocking there so much land you think available the city owns it they're not really doing anything with it and can't maintain yeah by it's just caught up in that bureaucracy yet meanwhile we're kind of doing it under the radar a little bill hopefully will you know get around to the same moaning this and supporting it as opposed to being a barrier. we we painted the owner of this picture of

victimization and we start talking about these food deserts the exact opposite is what a lot of community gardeners and food activists are saying is no we don't need outside interest we have the capacity to to care for ourselves and that of that we know what's best for the community and i certainly think mark is it is a stunning example of this when you literally same people move into your neighborhood because of what you're doing you know and so they're not a lot of folks can claim a neighborhood as is seeing people moving into it. i'd rather see a bunch of how this a bunch of people. but you know even in the future i would like to see some of the vacant lots or all a vacant lots you know have houses and apartment buildings with people walk around but i still think we even in that future will need something. and i think ultimately nature will heal itself i think that when we look at on the

slots that we refer to as being baking which is a higher anthropocentric view point of that they're not in fact vacant they're full of all kinds of life but those plants i think are really healing the soil that that ultimately is the legacy that we provide to our children and our grandchildren is that we have taken the soils that have been wasted and to allow them to research. everything has to see you know everything grows from the sea and we have to start somewhere so. more telling to grow tell from the rise series back in 2012 how did they get on in the sense then they want. retrace russell steps recently to find out.

this morning and start. with then i can see outside then i start i like to plow i don't like to work in the going. 70 year old ford stream of a drive through markets never came to fruition the size of urban farm has grown from 9 lots to 32 and she's also added a lot. so she can now grow fruit and vegetables all year round. the back of the. meat place and sell the meat. if you don't work. you don't eat and if you don't work you get lazy and don't want to do nothing what keep me going i like working. a few miles away calling to. have also grown vegan foam complete with more

animals. i want to say we only had 8 lots and now we have 24 that we keep cut or we grow something on. the reason why we got b. or what the help pollinate our fruit trees are that we grow. we have beautiful plant but they went for the lot of we tripled easily triple that when we started. easily i mean the last 6 years but. edith has plans to expand the farm so people can come and pick their own fruit and vege. and i like this to be a plant in this city i want to grow facial day to those i know at the store but come over i get to visual fresh. edith gets help on the farm via the

court system people can do their hours of community service instead of paying a fine or going to prison it's called volunteer hours. the people who need quality i was. coming to be about. because we go through flooded. many of the vacant houses and lots around. a still up for sale however has purchased one of them which will turn into a community education center in the mean time devoted to hoop house of their lot so they can grow tomatoes in the winter. we have a turkey give away every year. we do 30 to 35 turkeys and what a basket so we are quite ok all ecologists free range is what it along with some other donations that we get. this is an asset to the city not just that the

neighborhood but the city. when i get a $100000.00 i will be going to check just lowry. the now here in the soil learning about helped by eating good. save my wife and i i can't imagine doing something else. these urban farmers from detroit have not yet transformed motown to grow town but the seeds day and others of so promise a rich and fruitful harvest in the years to come. well that's it from get here find more films from the series on the rewind page at al jazeera dot com but for now thank you for joining us again next time.

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