Brother Nature Produce is a small urban farm in Detroit that specializes in salad mix and herbs. The couple, Olivia Hubert and Greg Willerer, met within the urban farming community and created a plan to manage an urban homestead. With their combined expertise they grew a successful farming business on one acre of land, a renovated Victorian home, and a stall at the local Eastern Market, the country’s oldest continuously operated farmers market. Their “small village” within the heart of Detroit also includes two houses, four hoop houses, a walipini, and two orchards.

Apprentices will be taught how to tend the soil using methods of mulching and tarping to efficiently minimize weeds. They will also learn to plant seed rows with seeders and by hand in the hoop houses, as well as seed transplanting. Orchard maintenance includes seasonal pruning, tree planting, and propagation by division/cutting. Apprentices will participate in food foraging, firewood harvesting, farm ATV use, tool maintenance, and ratting with the help of the farm dogs! Nestled within their created community, apprentices might encounter impromptu karaoke and dance parties on the farm and can join in on Friday wood-fire pizza nights.

Since Olivia was born in Detroit and Greg has lived there for decades, they have fostered a deep relationship with their surrounding neighbors and farmers market goers. Brother Nature has also composed CSA boxes to highlight their 20 cultivars of field greens, 12 varieties of apples, 6 varieties of pears, 3 varieties of peaches, 1 hardy almond, 3 varieties of plums, 5 varieties of cane fruit, berries, 5 varieties of grapes, 3 varieties of citrus, hardy and fuzzy kiwi, 30 varieties of vegetables, and 20 culinary and medicinal herbs.

Brother Nature is dedicated to educating city folks that there is no reason, other than unfettered capitalism, that a city can’t be self-reliant. Detroit, in particular, has more than enough space to grow enough food to feed the city's population.Their mission is to be an engine for the urban farming movement by plowing hundreds of Detroit’s grassy lots, increasing grow capacity, and offering assistance to other Detroit growers to bring more local and chemical-free produce to Detroit’s neighborhoods.