Parsnips: A new weapon to restore our post-industrial cities

If you recall documentarian Roger Moore’s first hit film, Roger & Me, he complained that his hometown of Flint, Mich., was turned into a veritable ghost town when GM abandoned all its facilities and left the city and its residents to wither. We’ve all heard about what’s happening to other cities in the so-called rust belt Midwest.

But wait, salvation may be around the corner. In the form of lettuce. And cabbages. And radishes. Turnips, too.

It turns that the common everyday vegetable may be the salvation for our Midwestern post-industrial wastelands.