Why risk arrest to protest the school's closure? Says one student in a YouTube video of the sit-in, talking about pregnant women, including herself, "Sometimes it's like we don't have no hope. Basically it's our job to give them some hope. You can't just let them feel like they're alone. [This says to them] You're not alone, because you've got people like us fighting for you."

As the budgetary fight wages on-a decision on CFA is scheduled for this summer-the goats still need to be milked twice a day. As the sun was setting and the mosquitoes were coming out in force, Apple and her pen-mate Royal, gave almost two liters of milk, most of which will stay on the farm. (I was most proud of myself for avoiding the flying hooves of Apple, who probably hasn't been called docile lately.)

Walking past the rabbit warrens, hen house and horse pasture, where the school's brown mare trotted over to greet us, Doug and Leeann wondered what would happen to the farm if the school was shut down. Without girls and volunteers and, yes, money to tend the fields, they'd probably just be abandoned. Like so much else in Detroit.