Netflix Series Highlights Detroit Farmers and Chefs
A new Netflix
docuseries, You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment, features Detroit
farmers and chefs championing food access to be more mindful about our diet. In
episode three, New York natives John and Jevon Whittington stop by urban
farming Eastern Market farm Keep Growing Detroit, where Development and
Engagement Coordinator Danielle Daguio walks them through fields of dino kale
and poblano peppers grown onsite and the twins sit down to dinner with members
of Detroit’s urban agriculture community.
The show takes a critical look at the Standard American Diet,
which is saturated with fast food, fried foods and red meat. Tyler talks about
how divestment left Detroit, a majority-Black city, without affordable access
to nutrient-dense foods, and how groups like the Detroit Black Community Food
Sovereignty Network are providing community-based alternatives. Because the
city has a lot of vacant land, many Detroiters are using it to grow food out of
necessity. Tyler says, “It’s a transformation of something that is minimal into
something that is maximum and abundant.”
View the documentary at Netflix.com/title/81133260N.
