Neighborhood Meeting on Thursday, June 6

Make plans to attend the Neighbors Building Brightmoor meeting on Thursday, June 6! When you come, you’ll find… a bunch of your neighbors (usually between 25 and 50 of us!) enough food to feed a bunch of neighbors an opportunity to plan the future of Brightmoor information about volunteers coming to the neighborhood how to have a [...]

Detroit Free Press: Urban Farming Invigorates Brightmoor

Megha Satyanarayana of the Detroit Free Press writes: “In seven years, that section of Brightmoor has transformed and been organized under the moniker Neighbors Building Brightmoor. Students tend two youth gardens and sell the food at local farmers markets. Adults grow everything from food to flowers in gardens called Ladybug Lane and Rabbit Run. Houses begging to [...]

NBB Founder Riet Schumack receives WXYZ’s Detroit 2020 Award

Riet Schumack, founder of Neighbors Building Brightmoor, was awarded the Detroit 2020 Inspire Award this year for the Brightmoor Youth Garden. Congratulations, Riet!