Milwaukee: An Emerging Model for Smart Water and Food Management

By Steve Hamm
Building a Smarter Planet
August 4th, 2011

Excerpt:

The IBM team spent the first half of their stay in Milwaukee interviewing government officials, scientists, community organizers and the leaders of the aquaponics outfits. They visited some of the test sites, helped harvest fish and ate meals at restaurants that served the fish and salad greens. “It was really good,” says Carey Hidaka, one of the team members, who is a water management specialist.

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Bigg Slice is checking on his front yard garden. It’s doing good with lots of sunlight and lots of attention. Life lesson being learned. “We going to eat yall”.

Bigg Slice builds cars for Snoop Dogg

By Lee Cantelon of “Wordz from the Street”

He appears from the other side of the open hood of a ’66 Cadillac, the “Snoop de Ville,” one of Snoop Dogg’s cars, something he had customized, hung chandeliers in, had pinstriped in platinum. The car gave off a crazy glow in the fading light of the city street, caught the headlights of passing cars, sparkled like the entrance to a hotel in Monte Carlo. “What it do?” Slice says, and tosses off a fast pattern of hand shakes, the morse code greeting that is as important and identifying as dialect.

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Our two community-run farmers markets make fresh food available and affordable, while building our local economy and creating places for neighbors for meet and greet.

Video by Hugues Anhes – 2011
Excerpt from Natasha Bowens’ blog “Brown. Girl. Farming.”
July 12, 2011

“Some of you may remember the posts from my time at East New York Farms! last year – a place that meant so much to me and youth that blew me away with inspiration. Now I want to share some words directly from them, in line with the current theme of sharing stories from black and brown farmers and communities involved in food issues here on the blog!

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