Summertime!
Summer goes by fast in Wisconsin, and Community Gardens are celebrating the season across 100 neighborhoods in Milwaukee!
This season, One hundred people stepped up decided to be responsible for fighting blight on their block by installing and caring for a community gardenby becoming a Garden Leader with Groundwork Milwaukee.
Garden Leaders are hosting gatherings, and growing food and flowers with their neighbors, for the neighborhood. It’s a beautiful thing.
If you’d like to share your garden events this summer, be sure to share your information with Michelle@groundworkmke.org, and we’ll gladly spread the news!
Events like these are free and open to the public on a block near you this summer!
Out and About
we’re celebrating the great outdoors with a photo contest!
Admit it, you take pictures of your garden - the little sprouts poking out, when they get their first true leaves, the fruit, the pests… all of it is pretty great, if you ask us. And right now, it’s pretty Glorious.
We want to see! From Now until September 1st, we’re celebrating the great urban outdoors with a photo contest.
Here’s how to participate:
Upload up to six (6) photos 1MB resolution of your Network Garden in all its glory,
The name of garden where the photo was taken,
A caption describing what makes your outdoors so great.
Include your name, and the category you’d like to join.
Garden Life
Climate Safe Neighborhoods
Green (jobs, education, futures)
One winner per category will be announced on September 23rd, and the garden the entry represents will be eligible for additional garden amenities in Spring of 2024!
Your entry will be judged on originality, composition, and it’s ability to spark the category title in the mid of the viewer.
Get a Rain Garden/ Barrel for your Great outdoors - Free!
Milwaukee households in the area of the Marquette Interchange to Silver Spring- Highway 43N to 60th Street
Due to the generous support of Clean Wisconsin You’re qualified to have a StormGuarden installed! For FREE!
What are they, you ask? « the first stormwater management solution that combines a rain garden and rain barrel into one eco-friendly system. It has the capacity to grow beautiful gardens, prevent runoff AND helps protect our waterways from stormwater pollution. »
Sign up here to make your appointment, to learn if you qualify for a free installation! Of course, they’re more than happy to sell you one if you live outside of the target area.
Welcome new teamMate
Groundwork Milwaukee is happy to introduce you to Selena Cruz, our newest addition to the team.
Selena hails from Northern Illinois and is excited to share the knowledge she’s acquired working in community gardens there in Milwaukee. Here, she’ll be working as Community Programs Coordinator, which is important to her because she believes that real time community building is an essential part of having healthy and sustainable places to live.
When she’s not working, she still likes to garden, shop for plants, and hang out with her cat.
Welcome Selena!
If you need help with urban horticulture this summer, connect with her at Selena@groundworkmke.org.
Candidate Search
The Ground Corps Operations Director will be the senior leader for Groundwork Milwaukee’s workforce development and social enterprise program Ground Corps. Ground Corps provides an experiential learning experience for younger adults through landscape and green infrastructure construction and maintenance. A significant part of the Ground Corps Director’s role will be to build on Groundwork Milwaukee’s 2023 internal priority to improve the quality of our team work, project management processes, and resource management. The strategy to improve quality in 2023 is in preparation for the growth in the number of participants, quantity of projects, and project scopes Groundwork is planning for 2024. The Ground Corps Director will be an integral part in planning the direction and ultimately implementing our growth strategy.