Alice's Garden!

The slide show is
Alice's Garden before planting season. The ground was hard from
all the snow melting.
Now it's May and the gardeners are tilling
the ground and planting their fruits and vegetables.
The community garden is essential to many people because of the free produce and the training you get when you learn how to grow different edible items.
Gardening is not just digging in the dirt and dropping seeds.
Their is a science to the magic that happens when the plants start
sprouting. The Greater Johnson Park "Roots of Progress" campaign is about Alice's Garden a two -block community garden across from Johnson Park at twentieth street and Garfield ave. Managed by Seed Folks youth ministry and UW Extension. Seedfolks has one hundred and twelve family garden plots available at no cost. Families receive seeds and seedlings and access to tools at the site. Alice's Garden has an additional fifty rental plots (25$ for 400 square feet including water) managed by UW Extension. This garden is named after Alice Meade -Taylor, the late executive director of the UW Extension who had a passion for the city and urban gardening. You can contact Venice Williams (414) 607-0122 to rent a plot and get additional training resources.
To learn more about community gardens visit web site www.uwex.edu/ces/city/Milwaukee/
Click on the "Horticulture" and "Rent a Garden" Links.