Blake s, Carhartt using newest Kinder Cider to donate $20,000 in fruit trees to Detroit nonprofit
By Amber Ainsworth
(Photo: Blake s Hard Cider Co.)
ARMADA, Mich. (FOX 2) - Blake s Hard Cider Co. s Caramel Apple cider is back, and this time with a mission.
It s the latest release in the Armada cidery s Kinder Cider series. Proceeds from the cider will support Keep Growing Detroit, a nonprofit that raises awareness for urban farms.
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The cider is available to pre-order here now. It begins shipping Aug. 4.
The cider returns to Blake s Tasting Room on Aug. 6. A celebration at 4 p.m. will include live music, caramel apple hard cider slushees and floats, and 6-packs of the cider for sale.
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Food insecurity is a big unspoken part of the story for producers, says Dazmonique Carr. “You’re providing this great service but you’re providing it so much and you want to change the system so much, you don’t realize that you’re a part of that system.”
Rooted is WDET’s newest offering of stories about land tending, community healing and regeneration happening right here on the ancestral land of the Indigenous Anishinaabe, the area commonly referred to as Detroit.
“Every single thing about gardening, farming, food growing relates to life. Once you realize that that’s what you’re doing … and you’re involving yourself in that, regardless of how big, small, active you are in the food growing scene, when you put your hands in soil not gloved when you actually interact with soil, food, harvest it, it hits different as the young folks say,” says Dazmonique Carr, who founded her business Deeply Rooted
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MILPITAS, Calif. and DETROIT, April 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The KLA Foundation today announced first round recipients of the American Heart Association - KLA Social Equity Fund, created to help reduce the social and economic barriers to health equity in the Metro Detroit and South Bay/Silicon Valley areas over the next three years. From over 60 nonprofits who submitted expressions of interest, five organizations will receive grants from an initial $530K round of funding to combat root causes of systemic inequities exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, including food and housing insecurity, mental health, safety, and job instability. The grant recipients, Peaches and Greens, Detroit Life is Valuable Everyday (D.L.I.V.E), Keep Growing Detroit, International Chil