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- Johnsons Park Neighborhood Ass...
Northside YMCA on 12th & North, Mil...
Saturday, November 7 at 4:00pm - Johnsons Park Neighborhood Ass...
Northside YMCA on 12th & North, Mil...
Saturday, November 7 at 4:00pm - Johnsons Park Neighborhood Ass...
Northside YMCA on 12th & North, Mil...
Saturday, November 7 at 4:00pm - SeedFolks Youth Ministry's 200...
21st & Garfield Streets, Milwaukee, WI
Saturday, October 17 at 11:00am - Badger School Media Event
Badger School
Thursday, September 17 at 2:00pm - Berm Lowering Media Event in J...
Johnsons Park – North End
Wednesday, August 19 at 9:00am - ALICE'S GARDEN TRANSFORMATION ...
Alice's Garden
Tuesday, August 11 at 6:00pm - Neighborhood Photo Session in ...
Johnsons Park -- North End
Thursday, August 6 at 4:00pm
Center for Resilient Cities
Johnsons Park Neighborhood Association Meet & Greet
Saturday, November 7 @ the Northside YMCA on 12th & North, from 4pm-6:30pm
Delicious Bites provided by A Taste of Art!
Hip Hop Dance Entertainment!
Neighborhood Organizations: Walnut Way, Running Rebels & Center for Resilient Cities to name a few!
Kenya C. Evans
Healthy N...eighborhoods Coordinator
Johnsons Park Neighborhood Association
www.jpna-milw.org
414.333.7599Read More
Saturday, November 7 @ the Northside YMCA on 12th & North, from 4pm-6:30pm
Delicious Bites provided by A Taste of Art!
Hip Hop Dance Entertainment!
Neighborhood Organizations: Walnut Way, Running Rebels & Center for Resilient Cities to name a few!
Kenya C. Evans
Healthy N...eighborhoods Coordinator
Johnsons Park Neighborhood Association
www.jpna-milw.org
414.333.7599Read More
Time:4:00PM Saturday, November 7th
Location:Northside YMCA on 12th & North, Milwaukee, WI
Source: thirdcoastdigest.com
Three groups work together to transform an abandoned school into the nation's latest green campus.
Source: www.jsonline.com
Journal Sentinel business reporter Tom Daykin talks about commercial real estate and development, including stores, hotels, offices, condos, apartments and industrial buildings.
Center for Resilient Cities Check out the recent story on Will Allen.
Source: host.madison.com
FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2007 file photo, former pro basketball player Will Allen looks at some lettuce at the former garden center that he transformed into an urban vegetable farm, in Milwaukee. Allen, ...
Tales From Planet Earth showcases environmental films from around the world in a three-day festival and several other community outreach events across Wisconsin...
Source: www.wuwm.com
Johnsons Park is one of Milwaukee County's most ignored green spaces. Now residents are playing a role in transforming the green space and the surrounding neighborhood.
Center for Resilient Cities Kudos to Madison's Mayor for emphasizing long-term thinking and supporting Central Park!
Source: www.channel3000.com
Source: www.channel3000.com
PITTSBURGH -- The next big thing in green building design might be to turn an existing idea on its side. Monday, October 12, 2009.
Center for Resilient Cities Good news for Madison's Central Park!
Source: host.madison.com
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CELEBRATING THE 2009 SEASON!
Saturday, October 17, 2009
11am to 1pm
ALICE'S GARDEN
21st & Garfield Streets
Milwaukee, WI
More than collard greens, lavendar, cosmos and all of the other hundreds of plant life that fed both bodies and spirits, have been growing at Alice's Garden this season.
An expanded, caring village of n...eighbors and community was rooted and nurtured in the Seedfolks Family Garden Program, bringing together 45 new families and 6 families from the 2008 season, for months of horticultural education, garden celebrations, and cultural & enviornmental re/awakening. An additional 32 families are on a waiting list for the 2010 season.
Three years ago when I was asked by my husband, Demetrius Brown (Milwaukee County Extension, 4-H & Youth Development Agent), to come back to the children's and family garden program "and work your magic" several folks, White and African American, told me I would never be able to get Black folks to garden again. In addition to the children's and family gardens, there are also rental plots offered through Milwaukee County Extension that has mainly served Hmong production farmers.
When the layered, rippling sound of laughter and conversation made me look up from a squash plot I was weeding one Tuesday evening in July, and I counted 72 African American grandmothers, fathers, uncles, daughters, cousins, siblings, foster children...tending to garden plots that were not available to them in years past, I could only wish those who doubted and discouraged my efforts could have been present to see the beauty of it all with their own eyes.
My first season back in the garden (2007), I focused on clearing out large areas of the garden that had been neglected, trashed or overlooked for quite some time...talking to the soil as I worked...promising new life, renewed respect & honor and new hands that would one day tend the soil again. Seedfolks also spent time re-establishing the children's programs at the garden, along with Milwaukee County 4-H and Youth Development.
The second year, I spent the off-season meeting with neighborhood churches, families, community organizations, inviting them to meet me in the garden in the spring! As the 2008 gardening season began, ten families took me up on that offer. As others saw the slow transformation of a small area of Alice's Garden, by the end of July, an additional 15 families were on a waiting list for plots and once the 2008 season had ended, that list had grown to 27 families. The 2008 Seedfolks Children's Garden Program repeatedly hosted 332 children from 15 community programs throughout the season with Yoga in the Garden, The Garden of Reading, and our Art in the Garden programs.
The journey we have taken together this season as a community gardening together has been a wonderful birthing of relationships, a rediscovering of culutral gardening and traditions rooted in peoples from long ago...an affirmation of a neighborhood and the people who live within. We have celebrated the birth of a baby, mourned the loss of a son, sat by hospital beds through a stroke and a heart attack, sent a daughter off to college, said goodbye to a gardener who moved backed to South Africa, struggled in and out of foster care, clapped at recitals and performances....We have made herb butters, grilled the harvest together, brewed herbal teas, saved seeds, canned our harvest, roasted our sunflower seeds, shared the harvest...The desire to grow our own food brings us to Alice's Garden. The village we have created that nourishes us in so many ways keeps us there.
On Saturday, October 17, we will close out the 2009 garden season a bit early to make way for the total transformation of Alice's Garden! Part of the Greater Johnsons Park Roots of Progress Campaign, through an agreement with The Center for Resilient Cities and Milwaukee County, and in partnership with more than 40 neighorhood, community, Milwauke County and City of Milwaukee agencies, the garden will begin a half million dollar rennovation project next month. Improvements include basic site work, a new garden design, a new black vinyl-covered fence, soil remediation, a central garden structure, storm drainage improvements, bike racks, benches, tool sheds, an art shed, built-in grills, picnic tables, new trash receptacles, signage, hoop structures, a new gateway and more.
I speak for all of the gardeners in the Seedfolks Children and Family Garden Programs when I say thank you to everyone who has supported Alice's Garden, visited the garden, shared our story, brought us seeds and plants and mulch and soil and so much love...given countless volunteer hours...kept this garden alive so it could see this day!
Please join us on the 17th if you are able.
Peace & Blessings,
Venice
Venice R. Williams
Executive Director
SeedFolks Youth Ministry
phone: 414.687.0122
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
11am to 1pm
ALICE'S GARDEN
21st & Garfield Streets
Milwaukee, WI
More than collard greens, lavendar, cosmos and all of the other hundreds of plant life that fed both bodies and spirits, have been growing at Alice's Garden this season.
An expanded, caring village of n...eighbors and community was rooted and nurtured in the Seedfolks Family Garden Program, bringing together 45 new families and 6 families from the 2008 season, for months of horticultural education, garden celebrations, and cultural & enviornmental re/awakening. An additional 32 families are on a waiting list for the 2010 season.
Three years ago when I was asked by my husband, Demetrius Brown (Milwaukee County Extension, 4-H & Youth Development Agent), to come back to the children's and family garden program "and work your magic" several folks, White and African American, told me I would never be able to get Black folks to garden again. In addition to the children's and family gardens, there are also rental plots offered through Milwaukee County Extension that has mainly served Hmong production farmers.
When the layered, rippling sound of laughter and conversation made me look up from a squash plot I was weeding one Tuesday evening in July, and I counted 72 African American grandmothers, fathers, uncles, daughters, cousins, siblings, foster children...tending to garden plots that were not available to them in years past, I could only wish those who doubted and discouraged my efforts could have been present to see the beauty of it all with their own eyes.
My first season back in the garden (2007), I focused on clearing out large areas of the garden that had been neglected, trashed or overlooked for quite some time...talking to the soil as I worked...promising new life, renewed respect & honor and new hands that would one day tend the soil again. Seedfolks also spent time re-establishing the children's programs at the garden, along with Milwaukee County 4-H and Youth Development.
The second year, I spent the off-season meeting with neighborhood churches, families, community organizations, inviting them to meet me in the garden in the spring! As the 2008 gardening season began, ten families took me up on that offer. As others saw the slow transformation of a small area of Alice's Garden, by the end of July, an additional 15 families were on a waiting list for plots and once the 2008 season had ended, that list had grown to 27 families. The 2008 Seedfolks Children's Garden Program repeatedly hosted 332 children from 15 community programs throughout the season with Yoga in the Garden, The Garden of Reading, and our Art in the Garden programs.
The journey we have taken together this season as a community gardening together has been a wonderful birthing of relationships, a rediscovering of culutral gardening and traditions rooted in peoples from long ago...an affirmation of a neighborhood and the people who live within. We have celebrated the birth of a baby, mourned the loss of a son, sat by hospital beds through a stroke and a heart attack, sent a daughter off to college, said goodbye to a gardener who moved backed to South Africa, struggled in and out of foster care, clapped at recitals and performances....We have made herb butters, grilled the harvest together, brewed herbal teas, saved seeds, canned our harvest, roasted our sunflower seeds, shared the harvest...The desire to grow our own food brings us to Alice's Garden. The village we have created that nourishes us in so many ways keeps us there.
On Saturday, October 17, we will close out the 2009 garden season a bit early to make way for the total transformation of Alice's Garden! Part of the Greater Johnsons Park Roots of Progress Campaign, through an agreement with The Center for Resilient Cities and Milwaukee County, and in partnership with more than 40 neighorhood, community, Milwauke County and City of Milwaukee agencies, the garden will begin a half million dollar rennovation project next month. Improvements include basic site work, a new garden design, a new black vinyl-covered fence, soil remediation, a central garden structure, storm drainage improvements, bike racks, benches, tool sheds, an art shed, built-in grills, picnic tables, new trash receptacles, signage, hoop structures, a new gateway and more.
I speak for all of the gardeners in the Seedfolks Children and Family Garden Programs when I say thank you to everyone who has supported Alice's Garden, visited the garden, shared our story, brought us seeds and plants and mulch and soil and so much love...given countless volunteer hours...kept this garden alive so it could see this day!
Please join us on the 17th if you are able.
Peace & Blessings,
Venice
Venice R. Williams
Executive Director
SeedFolks Youth Ministry
phone: 414.687.0122
Read More
In Alice's Garden
Time:11:00AM Saturday, October 17th
Location:21st & Garfield Streets, Milwaukee, WI
Source: www.nytimes.com
Although big cities often get attention for high-profile environmental efforts, towns and villages are looking for ways to conserve energy and use land wisely.
Source: blog.outpostnaturalfoods.coop
A boarded-up school building on Madison's South Side could soon be transformed into a world-class urban agriculture and green design campus. So says the Center for Resilient Cities, a Madison organization which held a meeting last week to go over...
Center for Resilient Cities Dane County: Property sale means great opportunity for south Madison neighborhood
Source: www.wisbusiness.com
Center for Resilient Cities Keep an eye on Channel 3 and Channel 27 news in Madison for coverage of our media event!
Source: host.madison.com
The former Badger School at 501 E. Badger Road could be transformed into a community center with a rooftop greenhouse and urban agriculture. The elementary school was built in 1957 and Dane County bought it for social services in 1978. Photo by: Matthew Defour - State Journal
