Groundwork Milwaukee, Wisconsin Health Professionals for Climate Action, The New School Urban Systems Lab, Data You Can Use, Medical College of Wisconsin, December 8th, 2022

Our most current report, Milwaukee Flood Health-Vulnerability Assessment, and the storymap that accompanies it, tell the history of housing discrimination in Milwaukee, and the impacts of climate change in one neighborhood, Metcalfe Park. We’ve spent the last year assisting neighbors developing and installing green solutions in areas which are vulnerable to flood and extreme heat.

The Weather Channel, June 28th, 2022

Groundwork Milwaukee’s Outreach and Organizing Director, Jess Haven, is interviewed on the The Weather Channel about the upcoming Milwaukee Heat Watch Mapping Campaign. Watch the video at the link below or sign-up to volunteer to participate in the mapping campaign. Watch. Volunteer.

Lina Tran, Grist, April 28th, 2022

City’s like to plant trees, but don’t always set aside resources to care for them after they are planted. This article in Grist explores the gap between planting trees and caring for them. Groundwork Milwaukee’s Greenspace Actions Coordinator, Samson Srok, provides valuable insight from his experience in the field.

The mission of Karma Community Garden is to provide an outdoor classroom where STEAM education is the focus, providing various career paths and resources in an outside environment. We want to enthrall the community by physically interacting with the dirt and learning soil and food science, activating outdoor learning. However, the primary mission of Karma Community Garden is to gather and organize the community while providing a space to demonstrate advanced vertical farming practices.

On North Hackett Avenue, between Belleview and Park Place sits St. Mark's Episcopal Church. In the back corner, past the parking lot, sits a small but lush garden space. Gardeners, Meg Edwards, Jane Shero, and Deacon Michelle Mooney are giving a tour of the space. “The space is about 20 years old. We took the turf out, brought sand in – it’s very clay-y here. Every year we would lay down mulch and compost, and now it grows a little bit of everything.”

In the Harambee neighborhood on Buffum Street, right between Meinecke and North Avenue, lives Hilltop Community Farm & Garden. The first thing you notice when you visit the space are the garden beds. There are fifty of them in total, each is 4’x 8’, laid out in long lines with skinny pathways in between each strip. Many perennial herbs are in full bloom at this point in the growing season. Massive stalks covered in flowers dominate the view. As you walk down the rows, you’ll see the picnic table and chairs under the tree, inviting you to take a rest and enjoy the view. The garden is a hodgepodge of scrapped and recycled materials that have been arranged to create a vibrant green pocket in Harambee where gardeners use all types of growing techniques to raise a diverse variety of fresh food.

In 2021, Solomon Community Temple United Methodist Church joined Groundwork’s Milwaukee Grows Garden Network. Located on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Solomon Community Temple is a valuable community resource in Milwaukee’s Harambee neighborhood.

It’s the final installment of the Green Team Blog 2021. Thanks for following along! We had a lot of fun working with this crew and will miss them as they head back to school. Follow the link to see how they spent there last week at Groundwork.

In this edition of the Groundwork Milwaukee Green Team Blog, the team focuses on water! They cleaned an adopt-a-river section, conducted water quality monitoring and visited MMSD to learn about waste water treatment. Follow the link for the details!

The latest edition of Groundwork Milwaukee’s Green Team Blog 2021 is here. This edition features a photo shoot with local nature photographer, Eddee Daniel. It’s definitely worth a look. Enjoy!

Check out the latest installment of Groundwork Milwaukee’s Green Team Blog 2021, written by the crew. We’re proud of the work this group has put in and excited to see what they’ll do next. Enjoy!

Check out the latest installment of Groundwork Milwaukee’s Green Team Blog 2021. We’re having a great time getting to know our team. Here’s your opportunity to learn a bit more about them.