Metro Detroit has an expanding farming organization with a familiar name: Forgotten Harvest, based in Oak Park.
The food salvage nonprofit is cultivating produce on nearly 100 leased acres in Genesee County near Oakland, Sherri Welch reports at Crain's Detroit Business.
Forgotten Harvest is getting into the farming business with its first large-scale planting this spring on about 92 acres of a Fenton farm that's been in the Moroun family for generations.
After a successful farming pilot last year on 37 acres of borrowed land in Oakland and Macomb counties, Forgotten Harvest is planting crops on leased land at the Moroun family's Ore Creek Farm in Fenton.
The farm is expected to yield nearly 2 million pounds of corn, potatoes, cabbage, squash and other vegetables this year.
Executive director Susan Ellis Goodell tells Welch: "This is certainly an expansion of our work.
