Community Garden School - Riverwest
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The United Nations has proclaimed that small plot garden farming is the only way to eliminate world hunger locally.
Will Allen of Milwaukee’s Growing Power mantra has always been: “We need to grow soil and we need to grow farmers.”
We need to inspire and train people to become professional garden farmers to supply locally grown foods. We need to “grow our own” local farmers to produce high quality organic food to be consumed locally here in the Riverwest neighborhood of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, creating jobs, careers and livelihoods growing food in the neighborhood.
We would like to test these theories using the community garden at the corner of Clarke and Bremen Streets, which was started in 2009, and is beginning its seventh growing season. The time is ripe for renewed purpose, redesign and restoration of the garden.
We are proposing a model for an urban garden/farmers training school and program to create garden farmers and garden farming jobs. This training will provide income and careers in the local organic food growing industry for unemployed youth, families, and older folks in the neighborhood. This program will teach and practice the skills of urban organic garden farming using state-of-the-art principles of permaculture, biodynamics and traditional organic methods.
Right now the garden is in poor dilapidated condition. The drawing above is a redesign that will produce and estimated annual revenue of $24,000 consisting of 3000 pounds of organic vegetables, garden products and activities with expences of $13,000 (including $10,800 in local saleries)leaving a net profit $11,000 for further up grades and saleries. The costs for this upgrade are estimated at $15,950.
Growing high quality organic food is a skill that needs to be taught and learned and is like a fine art and science.
This redesigned garden will employ 3 master gardeners and train 10 student interns each season.
The energy to grow food is free from the sun. That is a great head start to any business. We have unemployed citizens who need jobs to make money to buy food to live. We have land, and we could make it a job to grow food to live and then we don’t need as much money and we sell some of the food to those who don’t grow. Sounds like a perfect sustainable, self-sufficient non-polluting cooperative system.
Our plan presents a method, mechanism, a program to educate and train ten garden farmers per season who can then go out and grow more gardens and more farmers until all available land is growing food. This is called growing farmers on the local level. We talk about growing our own food but first we need to train the people how to grow food.
Please give us a hand to build the infrastructure for this project, and to pay some people to start teaching and learning to grow food - locally! Thanks for your support. Any amount is deeply appreciated.
For further information, follow the link to our Facebook page.
Watch for the new garden video project coming soon! Ten-page full business prospectus available on request.
Will Allen of Milwaukee’s Growing Power mantra has always been: “We need to grow soil and we need to grow farmers.”
We need to inspire and train people to become professional garden farmers to supply locally grown foods. We need to “grow our own” local farmers to produce high quality organic food to be consumed locally here in the Riverwest neighborhood of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, creating jobs, careers and livelihoods growing food in the neighborhood.
We would like to test these theories using the community garden at the corner of Clarke and Bremen Streets, which was started in 2009, and is beginning its seventh growing season. The time is ripe for renewed purpose, redesign and restoration of the garden.
We are proposing a model for an urban garden/farmers training school and program to create garden farmers and garden farming jobs. This training will provide income and careers in the local organic food growing industry for unemployed youth, families, and older folks in the neighborhood. This program will teach and practice the skills of urban organic garden farming using state-of-the-art principles of permaculture, biodynamics and traditional organic methods.
Right now the garden is in poor dilapidated condition. The drawing above is a redesign that will produce and estimated annual revenue of $24,000 consisting of 3000 pounds of organic vegetables, garden products and activities with expences of $13,000 (including $10,800 in local saleries)leaving a net profit $11,000 for further up grades and saleries. The costs for this upgrade are estimated at $15,950.
Growing high quality organic food is a skill that needs to be taught and learned and is like a fine art and science.
This redesigned garden will employ 3 master gardeners and train 10 student interns each season.
The energy to grow food is free from the sun. That is a great head start to any business. We have unemployed citizens who need jobs to make money to buy food to live. We have land, and we could make it a job to grow food to live and then we don’t need as much money and we sell some of the food to those who don’t grow. Sounds like a perfect sustainable, self-sufficient non-polluting cooperative system.
Our plan presents a method, mechanism, a program to educate and train ten garden farmers per season who can then go out and grow more gardens and more farmers until all available land is growing food. This is called growing farmers on the local level. We talk about growing our own food but first we need to train the people how to grow food.
Please give us a hand to build the infrastructure for this project, and to pay some people to start teaching and learning to grow food - locally! Thanks for your support. Any amount is deeply appreciated.
For further information, follow the link to our Facebook page.
Watch for the new garden video project coming soon! Ten-page full business prospectus available on request.
Organizer
Janice Christensen
Organizer
Milwaukee, WI