Gardening

This presentation describes the Growing Your Future Initiative with the goal of a community garden curriculum, adolescent participants will develop an orientati...on to the future by focusing on the community environment, personal skill development, and health. The study aims of this project include a summer curriculum using a community garden project, testing the effectiveness of the curriculum, and develop youth-focused strategies to promote advocacy for healthy lifestyles in Milwaukee. Read More Show Less

The purpose of this manual is to provide Harold S. Vincent High School (VHS) teachers and students with composting options that may be a good fit for their site.... Classroom composting options will also be provided and will likely be the easiest and most feasible method for VHS to implement. Other larger scale composting options will require more planning and coordination to ensure that VHS will have enough waste input, labor power, and dedicated management to sustain an operation. These larger scale options will also be included in the manual along with their requirements for scaling up and sustaining these operations. The manual is organized in three parts outlining compost basics, methods, and preparation, and includes appendices as a handy reference. Read More Show Less

Growing Power’s Commercial Urban Agriculture Training Program is designed to help emerging urban and small scale farming businesses with classroom-based learn...ing and hands-on skills to support the development of commercial profitably in the city. The course is a series of five weekend seminars over five months at Growing Power’s national training facilities in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. During this time, attendees concentrate on skill building focused on the participant’s individual urban agriculture business plan, with the goal of a fully developed plan and presentation at the conclusion of the program. One-on-one advising and work between sessions is available for those individuals serious and ready to contribute to the food system in their communities as members of the farming and local food movement. The value of this research for the CUA program is to inform Growing Power’s recruitment, programming, and follow-up options for CUA graduates. The draft report was shared with Growing Power in February in advance of CUA 2016 training cycle. Growing Power plans to use the interview tool as a regular part of their evaluation. Read More Show Less

As one pilot of a multi-faceted project funded by a Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Program grant in 2014 and 2015, the Institute for Urban Agriculture & Nutrit...ion (IUAN) began working with administration and staff at Harold S. Vincent High School (VHS) to perform a composting operation technology transfer from the UW-Milwaukee campus to VHS. This pilot demonstrates the “Return” segment of IUAN’s Grow-Move-Eat-Return philosophy of closed loop healthy food system. For more background on this project, please refer to accompanying document entitled Waste Audit Report and Recommendations. Since 2012, VHS has begun a process to reignite the agricultural programming on which it was founded in the 1970s—to create a destination campus within MPS that takes advantage of the vast resources available at VHS campus, as well as gives young people a foundational connection to sources of their food. Partners at IUAN and UW-Milwaukee Office of Sustainability have supported these efforts. Benefits of agricultural programming (also known as Farm to School) are vast, affecting public health, education, as well as the local economy and environment. See Appendix 1. A key component of success to such a program is infusion of agriculture themes throughout the school’s curriculum, not only in the obvious topics such as science and math, but in all curriculum including language, art, social studies, and business. As part of the VHS-IUAN pilot project, we explored how VHS teachers would go about incorporating agricultural themes into the curricula they teach. Read More Show Less

CIUAN is a Cooperative of community and academic organizations, businesses and government agencies that work to build capacity for a healthy food system in Milw...aukee. Read More Show Less

CIUAN is a Cooperative of community and academic organizations, businesses and government agencies that work to build capacity for a healthy food system in Milw...aukee. Read More Show Less

This results page offers information regarding consumption of sugar, soda, water, fast food, vegetables, fruit, television, and exercise for adults and children.... This is an example of pre and post test results from surveys. Read More Show Less