DETROIT – Detroit is full of vacant lots or empty parcels that many residents see as blight. But for one local nonprofit, those lots are opportunities: blank canvases that can become thriving spaces for people and pollinators.
Timothy and Nicole Lindsey Jackson, lifelong Detroiters and co-founders of Detroit Hives, are among a group leading a push to transform vacant land across the city into urban bee farms and community green spaces.
“A vacant lot is a blank canvas for what you want to imagine in that site with support for the community,” Timothy said…