By KAREN HOPPER USHER
Capital News Service
LANSING — In the past few weeks, 35-year-old John Krohn estimates his urban farm in Lansing has donated 40 pounds of food to people in need.
But don’t call it giving back.
“I don’t feel like I’m giving back because I don’t owe anybody anything,” Krohn said.
Call it community. A community Krohn said he relies on as a market, and the community where he has chosen to live.
Brigitte Derel, 35, also wants to feed her community. She sells food from her small rural farm in Chatham in the Upper Peninsula at farmers markets and also works for the Marquette Food Co-Op. Continue reading