Detroit Black Community Food Security Network – $25,000

DBCFSN will use this grant to support community-centered food waste composting operations at the Detroit People’s Food Co-op (DPFC), a member-owned grocery store cooperative in Detroit’s North End neighborhood. DBCFSN believes that food waste composting is a critical component of a closed loop food economy, "where a majority of the economical, political, cultural, social and ecological capital can be recycled back into the community to generate transformative change." DBCFSN will apply the grant to engage a compost manager to coordinate food waste diversion from DPFC to composting systems at D-Town Farm, DBCFSN's 7-acre farm in Rouge Park.