Best Urban Gardens Milwaukee Near Me

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Victory Garden Initiative builds communities that grow their own food, to create a community-led, socially just, environmentally sustainable, nutritious food system for all.

Our slogan is: “This is a grassroots movement. Move grass. Grow food.”, and we implement this through the following programs: Great Milwaukee Victory Garden BLITZ, Victory Garden Urban Farm, Youth Education Programming (YEP!), Harvest Season Farmstand, and Volunteer and Intern Engagement. Through these programs and more, VGI is able to bring communities together to teach them how to grow food and supply them with the means to create their own sustainable community.

Victory Garden Initiative believes that every person, in every household, can connect to their food source through the act of growing it. This act reminds us that we are of the earth, that we cannot live without the earth; that our needs are met, not by the economy, but by the earth. Growing food will re-integrate us with deep ecology, guiding our culture towards a sustainable, abundant future, freed from financial inequalities.

When fruit trees fill our parks, and nut trees are harvested by our neighbors, when food pantries house vegetable gardens and school children participate in growing their lunches, we will have a secure, sovereign, socially just and sustainable food system.

Victory Garden Initiative launched in 2009 when a group of community members recognized the negative environmental, social, economic, and health implications of our dominant food system. The solution was building communities that grow their own food. VGI has rallied to install over 3,500 gardens, launch a 1.5-acre urban farm, plant 26 orchards in low-income neighborhoods, teach adults and children how to grow food, and train 68 community Food Leaders. Our annual event, The Great Milwaukee Victory Garden BLITZ, has gained so much momentum that it has expanded to conducting BLITZ training in other communities like Green Bay, Wisconsin, and Berea, Kentucky.

The purpose of the Victory Garden Initiative of WWI and WWII was to support the war effort. People throughout the United States grew their own produce in yards, parks, and other com

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The Garden is located on a triangular parcel of land in Kilbourn Park – across North Avenue from the Reservoir. It was started in April, 2009, and has grown to more than 140 garden beds, each tended to by an individual, family or organization in the neighborhood. Most of the raised garden beds are four by eight feet. A bed of that size can supply enough produce for one to two adults.

The garden was started with the intention of helping people overcome hunger, which, unfortunately, is all too real in Riverwest and nearby neighborhoods. According to a neighborhood survey conducted by the Riverwest Health Initiative in 2006, 21% reported they skipped meals because they couldn’t afford food. By offering a place to grow their own fruits and vegetables, these gardens make a real difference to the health and well-being of the community. The Water Works Department of the City of Milwaukee owns the land where the garden is located. Once the decision was made to decommission the reservoir on North Avenue around 2002, a community-wide planning process took place on how best to use the land. The community park you see now opened in the fall of 2008. It is the result of those meetings.