Detroit Strip Clubs: Laura Berman Urban farmer uniquely br…

August 24, 2009 at 1:36 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No Comments

Two pigs, bought at a flea market four years ago as babies, have ballooned into hefty hog-sized creatures. How big are they? “Too big for me to lift,” says Sharpe, 62, who says she was duped into thinking them true Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs.
They all gambol in a fenced yard beside Sharpe’s century old, leaf-green cottage that sports an American flag, “support the troops” sign, and another decreeing “The Witch Is Out.”
In post-apocalyptic Detroit, where cornstalks are taking over the way motorized carriages did 100 years ago, a city lot turned into a modest petting zoo and farm by a retired cross-dressing stripper and dog groomer isn’t urban blight: It’s an unexpected injection of life, tucked into a corner where human population is getting more sparse and fun is hard to find.

See the full article from “The Detroit News”

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