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Honeycrisp apple saplings for a u-pick orchard are being planted on a once vacant lot on Detroit’s east side.

Some of the saplings were planted Friday on the half-acre Core Orchards Detroit site. Full production for the orchard is expected …

By 2020, an apple orchard that took root on Friday afternoon in Detroit’s east side will be in full production.

Core Orchards Detroit, an urban agriculture and orchard development, was scheduled to plant 300 Honeycrisp saplings at 2610 Lenox St., …

Welcome to Core Orchards, Detroit the 1st u-pick apple orchard.

It may not look like much now but by the year 2020 things will look a lot different.

Picture 300 honey crisp apple trees growing along the city’s landscape.

“We’re …

Officials of Wolverine Human Services, a children center on the city’s east side, were watching the once-thriving Riverbend neighborhood slowly become deserted after Carson Elementary closed in 2014.

So they launched an agricultural effort, Core Orchard Detroit, to bring the …

The first 300 trees at an apple orchard on Detroit’s east side are being planed on Friday. Core Orchards Detroit, which came about from Wolverine Human Services, aims to create a green campus on the city’s east side.…

In the first step of a grand plan to establish a commercial orchard in Detroit, more than 100 volunteers Friday will plant 300 Honeycrisp apple trees on vacant land on the city’s east side.

Grosse Pointe Park-based nonprofit Wolverine Human …

…a half acre Corps ordered Detroit site full production for that or heard is expected to start in two years the property was acquired through community partners program with the Detroit land Bank opportunity and authority gorgeous Detroit his brand …

DETROIT — A nonprofit that spent nearly two years raising funds to create an apple orchard in the city plans to plant about 300 trees Friday.

Wolverine Human Services is creating Core Orchards, at 2610 Lenox St. on Detroit’s east …

Last fall, we told you that Wolverine Human Services was raising money to create a U-Pick Apple Orchard at Lenox and Charlevoix. Spring is here and later this week, they’ll start planting 350 Honeycrisp apple trees to create a demonstration …

Surround yourself with nature just minutes from downtown Detroit at Core Orchards. It’s the first and only u-pick apple orchard in the area and a source of pride in the community. Designed to increase access to fresh, nutritious foods for …