NNS Video: ‘There’s a better way to live’: A community garden that’s so much more than that | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Alex Perry
September 17, 2019
What was once a condemned building has been transformed into a community walking garden that seeks to uplift the neighborhood surrounding North 26th Street and West Capitol Drive.
The RefugeGarden of Shechem is a project of Hope Street Ministry, a nonprofit committed to building community on the NorthSide.
The greenspace will eventually be transformed into Hope Street’scommunity center, Shechem.
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For the past20 years, Hope Street Ministry has provided safe and supportive housing to men,women and children.
It’s “a safespace where we cultivate hope and develop self-sufficiency together, as acommunity,” Hope Street’s Executive Director Ashley Thomas said.