March 30, 2021 • SPRING READING SERIES • Tepfirah Rushdan – Co-Director at Keep Growing Detroit
Please join us on March 30 at 7:00 p.m. EST for our second event in the Spring Reading Series with Tepfirah Rushdan, Co-Director at Keep Growing Detroit, who’s mission is to promote a food sovereign city where the majority of fruits and vegetables consumed by Detroiters are grown by residents within the city’s limits.
Once registered, we will email you a Zoom link for the event. If you do not receive a Zoom link, please email us at info@friendsoftheodorereothke.org.
A $5 donation to FOTR is requested for event registration as we continue to raise money to save the Stone House.
If you do not have a PayPal account, or if the $5 is a hardship right now, please email us directly, info@friendsofroethke.org, and we will manually register you.
Tepfirah Rushdan, known affectionately as Tee, is Co-Director at Keep Growing Detroit. Tee is a native Detroiter that is passionate about serving the community. She has combined her love for people and nature through various environmental projects here in the city, including developing conservation skills in youth, vacant land remediation, youth and adult farmer training programs, wild edible walks, community gardening, and climate change, and resiliency esearch. She has also worked hard to provide resources and technical assistance to hundreds of gardens in the city over the years through her work with the Garden Resource Program. A few of her accomplishments include graduating from the Urban Roots class of 2010, holding a seat on Th Detroit Food Policy Council, and guiding the work of the Uprooting Racism Planting Justice Initiative.
Other notable projects have included helping complete the Detroit Residential Parcel Survey in 2009, which helped to map vacant land in Detroit and make this information available to community members. She is co-founder of the Detroit Black Farmer Land Fund. Currently, she serves as the board member for the following grassroots community organizations: Detroit Peoples Co-op, R.A.H.A.M Detroit (Responsible hands and minds), GreenThumbz Consulting, and Black to the Land Coalition.
Please join us on March 30 at 7:00 p.m. EST for our second event in the Spring Reading Series with Tepfirah Rushdan, Co-Director at Keep Growing Detroit, who’s mission is to promote a food sovereign city where the majority of fruits and vegetables consumed by Detroiters are grown by residents within the city’s limits.
Once registered, we will email you a Zoom link for the event. If you do not receive a Zoom link, please email us at info@friendsoftheodorereothke.org.
A $5 donation to FOTR is requested for event registration as we continue to raise money to save the Stone House.
If you do not have a PayPal account, or if the $5 is a hardship right now, please email us directly, info@friendsofroethke.org, and we will manually register you.
Tepfirah Rushdan, known affectionately as Tee, is Co-Director at Keep Growing Detroit. Tee is a native Detroiter that is passionate about serving the community. She has combined her love for people and nature through various environmental projects here in the city, including developing conservation skills in youth, vacant land remediation, youth and adult farmer training programs, wild edible walks, community gardening, and climate change, and resiliency esearch. She has also worked hard to provide resources and technical assistance to hundreds of gardens in the city over the years through her work with the Garden Resource Program. A few of her accomplishments include graduating from the Urban Roots class of 2010, holding a seat on Th Detroit Food Policy Council, and guiding the work of the Uprooting Racism Planting Justice Initiative.
Other notable projects have included helping complete the Detroit Residential Parcel Survey in 2009, which helped to map vacant land in Detroit and make this information available to community members. She is co-founder of the Detroit Black Farmer Land Fund. Currently, she serves as the board member for the following grassroots community organizations: Detroit Peoples Co-op, R.A.H.A.M Detroit (Responsible hands and minds), GreenThumbz Consulting, and Black to the Land Coalition.
Please join us on March 30 at 7:00 p.m. EST for our second event in the Spring Reading Series with Tepfirah Rushdan, Co-Director at Keep Growing Detroit, who’s mission is to promote a food sovereign city where the majority of fruits and vegetables consumed by Detroiters are grown by residents within the city’s limits.
Once registered, we will email you a Zoom link for the event. If you do not receive a Zoom link, please email us at info@friendsoftheodorereothke.org.
A $5 donation to FOTR is requested for event registration as we continue to raise money to save the Stone House.
If you do not have a PayPal account, or if the $5 is a hardship right now, please email us directly, info@friendsofroethke.org, and we will manually register you.
Tepfirah Rushdan, known affectionately as Tee, is Co-Director at Keep Growing Detroit. Tee is a native Detroiter that is passionate about serving the community. She has combined her love for people and nature through various environmental projects here in the city, including developing conservation skills in youth, vacant land remediation, youth and adult farmer training programs, wild edible walks, community gardening, and climate change, and resiliency esearch. She has also worked hard to provide resources and technical assistance to hundreds of gardens in the city over the years through her work with the Garden Resource Program. A few of her accomplishments include graduating from the Urban Roots class of 2010, holding a seat on Th Detroit Food Policy Council, and guiding the work of the Uprooting Racism Planting Justice Initiative.
Other notable projects have included helping complete the Detroit Residential Parcel Survey in 2009, which helped to map vacant land in Detroit and make this information available to community members. She is co-founder of the Detroit Black Farmer Land Fund. Currently, she serves as the board member for the following grassroots community organizations: Detroit Peoples Co-op, R.A.H.A.M Detroit (Responsible hands and minds), GreenThumbz Consulting, and Black to the Land Coalition.