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Get That Life: How I Became an Urban Farmer and Artist

Friday, August 29, 2014 Jill Filipovic

Hamtramck

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More than 80 years ago, Virginia Woolf insisted every woman needed "a room of one's own" to do her creative work. If you ask Detroit artist Kate Daughdrill, though, a whole farm is better. Daughdrill is an artist, teacher, speaker, and urban farmer who plants her crops in the middle of Detroit. She grows most of her own food on a multi-lot farm she cultivates with her neighbors, and she incorporates sustainable living and farming into her works. Daughdrill spoke with Cosmopolitan.com about surviving as a well-fed if underpaid artist, digging into the roots of your fears, and what it really means to live well.

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