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OPINION: ‘The goodness continues’: How the new Table Vocational Center answers a call to serve our community

May 4, 2022 by Venice R. Williams 4 Comments

At 5305 W. Capitol Drive, we are launching The Table Vocational Center. It will focus on both the inner work, and the outer work, humanity needs to be restored to wholeness.

Filed Under: Community, Community Voices, Neighborhoods Tagged With: A Miracle Happened Wellness and Birth Services, Alice’s Garden, Anomaly Catering, Community Voices, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Full Circle Healing Farm, LLC, Matthew Fox, Mystic Phoenix Art, Rural Urban FLOW, Seed, Soil and Soul, The Reinvention of Work, The Table, The Table Vocational Center, Venice Williams, Yoga FloWellness

OPINION: Let’s remember the children who live in the shadows of domestic violence

March 24, 2020 by Venice R. Williams 11 Comments

What shreds my heart to pieces, and stirs up familiar fear, nausea and hopelessness in me during these days, is knowing there are thousands of children caught at home, with no release date in sight, within the frightening grip of domestic violence.

Filed Under: Carousel, Community Voices, Home, Neighborhoods, News Tagged With: coronavirus, covid opinions

Community Voices: Why I will vote ON election day

November 6, 2018 by Venice R. Williams 1 Comment

Venice Williams, director of Alice’s Garden and a lay minister, teacher, healer and facilitator, explains why she chose to vote today, on Election Day.

Filed Under: Carousel, Community Voices, Home, Neighborhoods, News

An Immigrant’s Son

January 20, 2017 by Venice R. Williams 5 Comments

Venice Williams is the director of Alice’s Garden and The Body & Soul Healing Arts Center. A lay minister, teacher, healer, and facilitator who works to improve the lives of young people, formerly incarcerated people and others in the central city, Williams writes that she will pray for the new president for the sake of his mother.

Filed Under: Community Voices

The “unrest” in this city began decades ago

August 15, 2016 by Venice R. Williams 4 Comments

Venice Williams is the director of Alice’s Garden and The Body & Soul Healing Arts Center. A lay minister, teacher, healer, and facilitator who works to improve the lives of young people, formerly incarcerated people and others in the central city, Williams says the recent violence in Sherman Park is not about the incident that sparked it.

Filed Under: Community Voices, Sherman Park

Introducing the 2014 Alice’s Garden Herbal CSA!

August 28, 2013 by Venice R. Williams Leave a Comment

Since 2008, Alice’s Garden has provided locally grown herbs and herbal teas to the Milwaukee community, along with herbal education and informational workshops.  An herbal product line was created in 2012 and in 2014, Alice’s Garden Healing Herbs will offer the community an Herbal CSA.  This CSA, community supported agriculture, will provide a collection of fresh herbs, herbal […]

Filed Under: Lindsay Heights, Posts from Community

Celebrating Juneteenth

June 19, 2013 by Venice R. Williams Leave a Comment

As I kneel in the garden, soil slips through my fingers and I offer a prayer in remembrance of my ancestors, whose forced labor helped build the U.S. This June 19 at Alice’s Garden, a 2-acre urban farm in Milwaukee, we will celebrate Juneteenth Day, the oldest-known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the […]

Filed Under: Lindsay Heights, Posts from Community

Alice’s Garden farmers training project

March 18, 2013 by Venice R. Williams Leave a Comment

Alice’s Garden has one dozen different programs and projects, some offered seasonally, and others year-round. The Farmers Training Project (FTP), for high school age youth and adults, teaches cultural farming education, introduces a variety of sustainable agriculture models, provides a grounding in culinary capital and food culture, and teaches economic development through urban agriculture. Upon […]

Filed Under: Lindsay Heights, Posts from Community

Volunteers needed on August 4th at Alice’s Garden

July 31, 2012 by Venice R. Williams Leave a Comment

During the morning of Saturday, August 4, 9am to 1pm, the water harvesting system will be installed at Alice’s Garden… and volunteers are needed! In partnership with the Water Harvesting Cooperative of Milwaukee, and with financial support from Fox Point Lutheran Church, several rain barrels and large water totes will be added to the pavilion […]

Filed Under: Lindsay Heights, Posts from Community

Brown Street Academy visits Kenosha Civil War Museum

July 25, 2011 by Venice R. Williams

As part of the Alice’s Garden program, Fieldhands and Foodways, Brown Street Academy 4th & 5th grade students come to the garden each Thursday morning. This past Thursday, they visited the Kenosha Civil War Museum. Fieldhands and Foodways is an agricultural, historical and cultural-based learning opportunity for young people and community families to celebrate the farming, […]

Filed Under: Lindsay Heights, Posts from Community

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