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Hantz Woodlands, also known as Hantz Farms, is an urban tree farm on the lower east side of Detroit.The project has cleared more than 2,000 vacant city-owned lots, totaling more than 140 acres, and has demolished blighted homes and cleared empty lots to make way for a hardwood tree farm, bounded by E. Jefferson Avenue, Mack Avenue, St. Jean Street and Van Dyke Avenue.
Jack Austin, of Lake Orion, Mich., volunteers at Detroit Animal Welfare Group (DAWG) in Romeo, Mich., pets Xena, a female rescue Canaan dog they have from the West Bank, on Friday, April 12, 2024.
The Michigan Farm Garden, with heirloom vegetables, orchards, and figurative animal sculptures, provides families with the opportunity to experience the context of a 1930s farm complete with a 100-year-old barn and replica farmhouse from Lena (Rader) Meijer's childhood, and the Frederik Meijer Gardens Amphitheater, an outdoor musical and ...
Campus Martius Park (/ ˈ m ɑːr ʃ ʌ s / MAR-shuss) [1] is a re-established park in Downtown Detroit, Michigan.After the Great Fire of 1805, Campus Martius (from the Latin for Field of Mars, where Roman heroes walked) was the focal point of Judge Augustus Woodward's plans to rebuild the city. [2]
And while tree sales decline, wreaths continue to grow in popularity. Kevin Sprang said he sold 35 wreaths back in 1971, his first year. Now, the farm has about a dozen people making wreaths, and ...
Augustus Woodward's plan for the city following 1805 fire. Detroit, settled in 1701, is one of the oldest cities in the Midwest. It experienced a disastrous fire in 1805 which nearly destroyed the city, leaving little present-day evidence of old Detroit save a few east-side streets named for early French settlers, their ancestors, and some pear trees which were believed to have been planted by ...
Randy Pratt, owner and chief operating officer, stands in a Christmas tree field Nov. 8 at Wilkens Fruit & Fir Farm in Yorktown Heights. The farm is celebrating its 107th season of harvest.
The Brush Park Historic District is a neighborhood located in Detroit, Michigan. [ 3][ 4] It is bounded by Mack Avenue on the north, Woodward Avenue on the west, Beaubien Street on the east, and the Fisher Freeway on the south. [ 5][ 6] The Woodward East Historic District, a smaller historic district completely encompassed by the larger Brush ...