the police are looking at parties people still are embedded with the same stigma that see people with mental health conditions as being be winched or you know potentially you know being aggressive and so the result of changing so i think for government it's own agent to address and come back stigma why providing mental health services and oversight finally one of the greatest guitarists of all time eddie van halen has died at the age of 65. his sons are very van halen had been all along an arduous battle with cancer the band van halen among the top 20 best selling artists ever. was inducted into the rock n roll hall of fame back in 2007. past

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a number of military aides it is said who are also working at the white house. prime ministers resigned after widespread protests over sunday's disputed election the country's election commissions now in the early results from the vote representatives from libya's rival administrations have agreed on the appointment of several high profile positions m.p.'s from the un recognized government in tripoli and the government of been holding talks in morocco. and turkey's foreign minister is criticizing international efforts to end the conflict between azerbaijan and armenia. cover so uses diplomacy has failed to resolve this decades old conflict over the region of the go on a kind of a. that's my lot but i thank you company rewinds is next and bam with the latest news. the remote kingdom of tahn has become known for its decision in the us. what i want to expose this national call to spawn the younger generation on

al-jazeera. and i welcome again to rebuy and i'm elizabeth piron and our task here on the wind 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 baird

traveled to detroit and the heart of the usa is decaying rust belt a city built on common you factory 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 my. 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. down.

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. tours gas stations and the little scarce markets that we grocery store that we've been there because we do have places where people can go get food but it's how healthy it is you know and how cheap i can arm boy is for you to buy you know when you come here and you get a you know. slice pepperoni pizza for a dollar. all this used to be how this is just a

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 who are trying 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 the community but it's easy for me because i know everybody so. much help in the garden from the city not really other than because technically having a community garden is illegal still has eagles right yes growing food. is technically illegal and to see detroit i got family and living like columbus ohio and friends i mean mississippi which is a farming state you know it's like going in detroit yeah i'm like yeah right the

middle of detroit you can go to chickens in detroit i'm like yeah right in the middle of detroit so i can hear them actually in the distance it's a you that's it's as if that's a pheasant if you can of present you know the wild but what have. i you just give me yeah we got pheasants rabbits fox if you if you took a shot right here it went right across the street it looks like you in a forest kind of speck that can go from a no when people ask you what you did say would have been clear in. my coding tints no the only open farmer in detroit in fact he's part of a growing movement when i started obviously roland seedlings in the house my dining room i'm living it was full of plants and somebody sent me e-mails and there was a meeting of diners and they were telling them about the different resources that

they offer it's all like a weight was lifted off my shoulders and i'll think yes i have to just. you know. must take me to that's works highly productive urban agriculture and education hub supplies would be city farmers with everything they need from support to seedlings morning. among the stuff you know that i. 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 to introduce you guys real quick to this is russell here we can find him a spot this is a lot of our youth works as hard for a training program and we're learning to be harboring farmers so we working with here. actually i think that's a good one that's got some good roots on it the good news i got into it because i have i have young children i want to be able to grow as i think they are growing

out of this one of the most revolutionary at least you can test the baby and i also have a small. beginning catering company so how can a coral cooker purposes if you want to make a business say this. tray is not only unhealthy financially but with a healthy i don't know very strong factor that you can do so here yourself is do you have something different. so we do it ourselves we know what we have. and try to be gentle with them they're just so fragile these little thing last concert 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 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 who 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 because of a parent or grandparent or my neighbor taught me how to do this and we carry that with us still this is my friend de de floyd she's. one of the pioneers of bloody for taking over vacant lots and growing food. having our daughter.

would allow to. you if you were a. lawyer you must admit to. 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. weeks 56 literally just 6 you can see from here we have done just push a lot right here. house got torn down to the next one. and we kept on going until we got down to the end so how many how many looks to be adopted so far just $28.00 just $28.00 puts this school there's washing thing is the pick i mean 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 argued tirebiter for 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 take it out and pick it themselves if they call me a day before i have it ready do you believe that this is you going to be able to manage that yes is easy all you gotta do is have to put up with it you deserve to live in no time. you just got the grant money she needed to buy the truck to buy volunteering to maintain the local park. just think i was cut i'll push more. it won't be brought up but 23 love morphs

there as it does not work you need to get a track of leave this just remember we're in the middle of detroit. oh. ok ok so we're going to do some telling you now we're going to let you get. on. and thanks to this you can turn that wears learn that tall grass into productive formulate it into a template fashion because i can plow implant those whole thing in one day. that's how fast it is and you think is 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 mouse on buses. to get the food. is so much later in your why business if you didn't go to nothing i rather what with the laying in the world feeling. i like to. use the law. is not free and if people any take here you take hear me it. after decades of urban decay the city's getting back on track with improvements to public transport services and the installation of energy efficient street lights despite being on the brink of bankruptcy in a city investment is totaled over 9 $1000000000.00 since 2006 as entrepreneurs hustled to stake a claim in the city while still going cheap the last 10 years so a 59 percent rise in young graduates moving into the city's core reinventing arts

and cultural home on the outskirts a new wave of urban farm social arriving. in detroit. in the early going to be counted and ledley rising 1st to keep could you see here the city this market the computer. that's where i had heard. which was much smaller than it is now a national. urban feed. that there is an agriculture. world here we take everything eastern market. and it's mostly big trucks yeah yeah people love their cars and. people want to brand it is this you know green place which is great and people are

kind of taking on that mentality still detroit still always going to have a big cars until. somebody else. in the city. is says. we don't use any kind of chemical fertilizers or sprays or anything. just lots of compost and hard work. so this garlics been saved 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 the truth. is a match. living some kind of you. dream. 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 yet 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 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 it's 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 believe the story you know you've got a preferred stock in monthly 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. the tracks are sometimes sheets are pieces of plastic so we're so far out that the 2 miles that you're buying stuff in season here for instance stuff that's being trucked in from from who knows how far and it might it might have something on it you don't want to see but you'll never know every saturday about 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 it took me 5 times that i've left the world

around me sometimes i'm like to taste everything you know not come back and make a few dollars as well as you go out to put gas in a tank that's coming more from the. book. which you think about these you tube you see the. yeah. yeah it's going. to reach out you know california mercy that we haven't passed but. it's going to get biggest challenge in the city here his land shocking and there's so much land you think available the city owns it they're not really doing anything with it and can't maintain yeah. it's just caught up in the bureaucracy yeah and 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 if 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 interests 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 is. it's seeing people moving into it. i'd rather see a bunch of how this bunch of people. but you know even in the future i would like to see some of the vacant lots are all a big and lots you know have houses and apartment buildings along with people walk around but i still think we even in that future will need something like this so we can grow. and i think ultimately nature will heal itself i think that when we look at only 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 reflash. everything has to see you know everything grows from a sea when you have to start somewhere so. more telling to grow tell from the series back in 2012 how did they get on in the sense then they want. every trace russell steps recently to find out. this morning and start. with the outside then i start i

like to plough on now like to work in the going. 70 year old forge dream 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. we're back on the. meat camplin still selling meat. if you don't want. to delete it if you don't want to 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 phone 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. you know we had beautiful plant when they went to the lot of we tripled easily triple that started. i mean the last 6 years. thanks. to expand the farm so people can come and pick their own fruit and vege. any good future i would like to be in the city i want to grow facial hair goes i know at the store but come over i get divisional thanks. 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 he's purchased one of them which will turn into a community education center in the mean time devoted to who passed their lot so they can grow tomatoes in the winter. we have turkey give away every year. we do 30 to 35 turkeys and with a basket so we are quite ok although collars is free range 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. i get

a $100000.00 i would be on his track just plowing. clean out here in the soil learning about helped by eating good. saved my wife and i i can't imagine doing something else. these urban farmers from detroit have not yet transformed motown to grow towns with the seeds day and others of so promise a rich and fruitful harvest in the years to come. well that's it from oz don't forget your find more films from the series on the rewind page at al jazeera dot com but for now thank you for joining us and see you again next time. we want return. with updates on the. documentary.

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