From Glasgow to Detroit
Glasgow and Detroit share a hard history: both built their identities on heavy industry, both watched that industry collapse, and both are now searching for what comes next. The film follows a group of urban gardeners from Glasgow as they travel to Detroit to see the city's urban farms firsthand, walking plots built on vacant lots where houses and factories once stood. Community leaders, farmers, and local experts in both cities describe how they turned abandoned land into food production, and the camera holds on the gardens themselves, rows of vegetables next to boarded-up buildings, as evidence of what that shift actually looks like on the ground. The comparison is not a lecture on urban planning theory but a set of conversations between people doing the same kind of work three thousand miles apart, trading practical notes on soil, funding, and neighborhood buy-in. The film treats sustainable farming less as an environmental gesture than as a survival strategy for cities that lost their old economic reason to exist.