Reply #50: Your problem with urban farming is what?

[LuckyTheDog]

Would you prefer that large sections of Detroit remain empty, trash-strewn wastelands in which virtually none of the land is on the tax rolls anymore? I ask that because, just mile or so from where I sit now, that's the status quo.

This city has more territory than Manhattan, Boston and Cambridge, Mass. COMBINED. But our population hovers at around 800,000. Urban farms sound better to me than empty lots and burned-out buildngs.