An article in today's (7 July 2009) Flint Journal entitled Flint to consider ordinance changes to enhance urban agriculture represents yet another time over the past couple of months when Flint and its interest in urban farming have made the news.  The Flint mayor, planning commissioner, and city council members among others are promoting urban agriculture and urban ecology as means to transform Flint's urban blight into an aesthetically pleasing, functional, and sustainable metropolitan land

(note: this was originally an email to Steve Bosserman and some others, that I have edited and reposted here -- Sam Rose)