Inspired by Will Allen's Growing Power methods and using Growing Power's compost...
Community Growers has inaugurated Milwaukee's first *roof-top farm*. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLsAUS86J7E http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/Main/ErikLindberg http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/CommunityGrowers/HomePage We are now offering a limited number of CSA shares for 2009… $800 per share. Our weekly shares will be comprised of a full range of vegetables and herbs grown on the Community Building and Restoration building on N. Palmer St., just south of Capitol. These will be the freshest vegetables available. Imagine the Possibilities This year's subscription will cost $800. Because of our limited space and the unique nature of our endeavor, the cost of our shares may be on the high end for local CSAs, but we hope to offset this additional cost with a longer season, due to our ability to erect a greenhouse over our planting area at the beginning and end of the growing season. As of November 5th, we were still harvesting tomatoes and peppers, broccoli and cauliflower, as well as a host of greens and root vegetables; as of January 1, we are still harvesting Kale, Spinach, Arugula, and Lettuce. We expect a 35 week season and hope for a 40 week. Great pictures and more prose at... http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/CommunityGrowersCSAFarm/HomePage Send e-mail to [email protected] for more information and updates. The Marriage of Milwaukee Artisans With Good Food Movement Community Growers Rooftop Farm and the developing Sweet Water Oragnics Fish Farm Project in concert with Growing Power have eyes fixed on the prize of sparking similar installations in Milwaukee, the Great Lakes, and beyond. http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/SweetWaterFishFarming/HomePage Carpenters, metal smiths, masons, painters, etc. are natural partners in the good food movement, due to the seasonality of their work and the resources their trades provide that are much needed in our movement, e.g. trucks, enterprising risk tolerant spirits, and more. Help inspire your local artisans to take some Growing Power "From the Ground Up" winter workshops one of these years and witness rooftop farms and the transformation of industrial slums into aquaculture systems! What say? Why not? Godsil http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/GrowingPower/HomePage http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/Main/CommunityRoofingAndRestorationInc -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20090103/c69c4aa2/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
