Walnut Way and St. Ann Center for Intergenerational Care plan to build new facilities to fuel development and job growth in Lindsay Heights.
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Zilber Family Foundation awards Fondy Food Center $100,00
The board of directors of the Zilber Family Foundation has awarded a two-year, $100,000 grant to Fondy Food Center in efforts to connect the Lindsay Heights neighborhood and Central City Milwaukee to fresh, locally-grown food on a larger scale. Fondy Food Center is one of eight Milwaukee nonprofits receiving grants totaling $700,000 after the fall […]
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Fondy PumpkinFest Saturday Oct. 26 4-7pm
Enjoy a sparkling display of more than a 100 brightly lit, decorated jack-o-lanterns at Fondy Farmers Market’s PumpkinFest on Saturday, October 26th between 4 and 7 pm. PumpkinFest includes storytelling (with Marquette University Golden Eagle senior basketball forward Jamil Wilson), kids face painting, live music, pumpkin decorating contest, and free light refreshments – all free! […]
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Walnut Way vows to rebuild after fire
Walnut Way Conservation Corp. is recovering after suffering a major fire at its headquarters on the eve of its 2013 Harvest Day event.
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Introducing the 2014 Alice’s Garden Herbal CSA!
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 […]
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Celebrating Juneteenth
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 […]
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North Division students use spoken word to describe their neighborhoods
Community Night at North Division High School revealed students’ perceptions of their neighborhood through spoken word poetry.
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Milwaukee Rep artists help North Division students find their voices
North Division students learned to create stories and poetry from their own lives in a Milwaukee Repertory program this spring.
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Milwaukee Rep connects students to their neighborhoods through arts
Students at Milwaukee’s North Division High School are learning about themselves, their history, and visual and spoken arts, thanks to an ambitious Milwaukee Repertory Theater program.
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Alice’s Garden farmers training project
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 […]