Detroit — Noelle Stull often made an unusual sight pedaling through Core City with her bike basket full of just-harvested peppers, lettuce or herbs.

When your urban farm and restaurant are a mile apart and you're sharing one vehicle, you find a way to bring farm to table — which is how Stull, co-owner of HiO Farm , found herself biking specialty produce through Detroit, her bike basket loaded with the day's harvest for her husband's restaurant.

"It was almost comical," says Stull, 39, reflecting on her 1-acre farm's early days of harvesting that started back in 2020. "But now we have a very closed-loop system here … It's basically a constant check-in conversation of what's coming up to harvest, what's flourishing right now, what to expect."

In their cultivated plot of land just a few

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