Our favorite stories of 2021: A harvest of riches: Meet some of Milwaukee’s finest urban farmers | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Sam Woods
December 31, 2021
Milwaukee is home to numerous urban farmers, including Claribel Morales, who started gardening in the summer of 2018. (Photo by Sam Woods)
Sam Woods
Of all the stories I wrote in 2021, my piece on Milwaukee’s urban farmers was my favorite.
For a couple of weeks in September, seemingly all I did was run around taking photos and interviewing residents about their craft.
I learned so much from these farmers (and the ones who did not want to be photographed but wanted to share their story) about building community through food, tips for growing certain crops and, most important, that growing food is more about the process than the product.
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