Community garden brings neighbors together in Milwaukee’s Washington Heights

Garden offers nourishment for body, spirit

By Justin Williams
FOX6
June 1, 2010

WITI-TV, MILWAUKEE – There’s a bit of an urban renaissance going on in Milwaukee’s Washington Heights neighborhood. Neighbors are coming together to till the soil as they create a new community garden.

Neighbors chose the space for the garden last November; a lot where an abandoned home once stood. 16 plots are now being installed along with a common planting area.

The effort involves the Victory Garden Initiative, Transition Milwaukee and a couple dozen neighbors coming together to grow together.

Near $4,000 was generated through grants and donations to cover the cost of getting the garden started. The garden now offers 24 raised planting beds, which individual households can rent at a cost of $20 per season.

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