BEECHER, Mich. -- An urban farmer wants to bring a farm-fresh market to Beecher to make up for the loss of two grocery stores.
Jacky King tells The Flint Journal (http://bit.ly/1pS4PKW ) that something needs to be done to fill residents' need for food with the community losing Kroger and IGA stores. So the owner of Harvesting Earth Educational Farm partnered with Kettering University and Democratic State Rep. Phil Phelps of Flushing to bring an organic market to the area.
Phelps has launched an online crowd funding campaign to raise $25,000 to buy a building for the market.
King will run the daily operations of what will be called the Harvesting Earth Organic Market. He hopes to open in by next spring in Beecher.
This is an AP Member Exchange shared by The Flint Journal.
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