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COMPOST WORKSHOP and LOCAL GREEN TOURS Learn how to build indoor/small scale compost systems, and design and maintain outdoor systems. Discuss collection of waste streams in the city or on the farm. TOURS Friday, February 29 1:00 - 5:30 Location: Leave from Hilton Hotel or by your own means. Tours are available to any participant that is attending either the SPIN Farming workshop or the Pollinate the Future Conference. *Only one tour per person is available. Please choose one when you register on line.  WALNUT WAYWalnut Way Conservation Corp. is a grassroots, community development organization serving the Milwaukee Central City neighborhood bound by North Avenue, 12th Street, Fond du Lac Avenue, Walnut Street and 20th Street. Our mission is... “...to sustain an economically diverse and neighborly community through civic engagement, environmental stewardship, and economic enterprise.” Our Board of Directors and many active volunteers are residents of this roughly 30-block neighborhood. In the past seven years engaged residents in collaboration with academic institutions, businesses, public agencies, and neighborhood associations have:
GROWING POWER  The Growing Power Community Food Center is the first of its kind in the nation. It is a two-acre farm located on the northwest side of Milwaukee. This historic site is the last remaining farm and greenhouse operation from the 1920’s in the City of Milwaukee. The Growing Power Community Food Center is open to the public. The Center offers schools, universities, government agencies, farmers, activists, and community members the opportunity to participate in understanding sustainable Community Food Systems.Growing Power inspires communities to build sustainable food systems that are equitable and ecologically sound, creating a just world, one food-secure community at a time. Growing Power, Inc. is a non-profit organization and land trust supporting people from diverse backgrounds and the environment in which they live by helping to provide equal access to healthy, high-quality, safe and affordable food. This mission is implemented by providing hands-on training, on-the-ground demonstration, outreach and technical assistance through the development of Community Food Systems that help people grow, process, market and distribute food in a sustainable manner.  MICHAEL FIELDS AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE
Michael Fields Agricultural Institute is devoted to developing an agriculture that can sustain the land and its resources. As a public non-profit organization, it strives to revitalize farming through research, education, technical assistance and public policy. Consider why this mission is so important to each of us... Few of us ever pause to consider either the present - or the future - of agriculture in America. Yet much of what we hold as vital and hope to keep for generations is deeply rooted in farming. A democracy sprang up and thrived on this ground by strength of individual land ownership and the industry that comes with toil from the earth. How long will we have our values, our freedoms without the land? In the life of this nation, over a few hundred years, the number of people who own or work our farmland has steadily fallen. On this one occupation, all livelihoods, all sustenance, our very existence depends. Yet farming's essentials -- its biology, cultivation, husbandry, conservation - are being lost to generations. And with this shift has come the loss of a rich culture; a sense of community; and human ties to soil, plant and animal life. Michael Fields Agricultural Institute is a response to the challenges we face in these profound changes. It is a response to the needs of the human race from the agricultural resources that sustain life on this planet. Through education and research, Michael Fields seeks to help both urban and rural populations meet common problems. We seek to address problems we face as a people who vitally need a sustainable agriculture. |
In Riverside Park, the Urban Ecology Center's outdoor laboratory consists of 12 acres of wooded land and riparian habitat on the east bank of the Milwaukee River.