Citizens are rising up all over the country, taking n their local city council for the right to raise chickens, goats, and other small farm animals on their property. The latest is Ypsilanti, Michigan.

The nonprofit Growing Hope is working with interested city residents and leaders to renew discussion of what Amanda Edmonds hopes will be changes in Ypsilanti city ordinances.

“We’re not neutral,” said Edmonds, founder and executive director of the group that runs the downtown farmers market, community garden and education programs in Ypsilanti. “We’re advocates for urban agriculture. Our role is to disseminate information about best practices and the experience in other communities.”

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