trowel, garden
notes: label: Description
content: A familiar item in the garden, this trowel recalls the efforts of a group of residents to address the lack of food security and representation in the urban food movement in Detroit. Made of metal with a wooden foam wrapped hand, this garden tool was used by members of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN) in Detroit, Michigan. The organization was formed in 2006 by a group of forty residents concerned about food insecurity within the local African American community at Black Star Community Bookstore. The DBCFSN sprung from an earlier effort by several founding members at the Nsoroma Institute Public School Academy to create a school garden, a school-wide food security curriculum and a garden collective. The DBCFSN wanted to address the lack of African American representation in the local urban agriculture movement in Detroit. The organization believes that effective food security and justice movements develop from within the community, and they support local leadership in Detroit. The organization operates a farm on seven acres of land in the City of Detroit’s Rouge Park called D-Town farm. A team of local volunteers and staff grow a wide variety of fruits and vegetables (in 2020 about 30) and offer tours. As of 2019, the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network plans to open a food co-op in the city. The Detroit People’s Food Co-op will be an African American led, community-based grocery cooperative that aims to increase access to healthy, sustainably grown food in Detroit neighborhoods.
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Food Technology
label: Exhibition
content: Food: Transforming the American Table
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2018.0203.03
label: catalog number
content: 2018.0203.03
label: accession number
content: 2018.0203
objectType: label: Object Name
content: trowel, garden
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel; wood; paint; foam (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal; wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 in x 3 1/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 38.1 cm x 8.255 cm x 3.81 cm