City Plans to Make ‘Lemonade’ With ‘Home Gr/Own’ Project by Peggy Schulz
Collaborate: To work or labor with. Innovate: To make new. Lemonade: A positive product or result arising out of the manipulation of negative or “sour” circumstances.
The City of Milwaukee’s “Home Gr/Own” proposal was named one of 20 finalists in the Bloomberg Challenge early last month. In essence, the program will transform some of the more than 3,000 vacant lots and nearly 1,000 foreclosed homes which the city – unfortunately – owns, into creative, productive uses, including urban agriculture and urban homesteading.
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