By Nick Kotecki and Janice Christensen
City Plans Policy Change:
Community Gardens Face Water Shut-Off
Community gardening is expanding in Milwaukee. Last season there were 78 raised bed gardens in Kilbourn Park. This year there are 123.
On Memorial Day the Victory Garden Initiative (VGI) held their second annual Victory Garden Blitz and installed more than 100 back yard gardens throughout the city.
Hide House Community Garden in Bay View has 110 raised beds.
Editorial: Letter from Zagora
ED. NOTE: Every few months the Riverwest Currents receives a mysterious missive that seems to be from the future.
They come with clear instructions about how and when to publish them. The writer often refers to some kind of cause and effect notion – we need to print the letter now, so that something specific will happen, and the future of the letter will be the future that comes about. We’ve toyed with the idea that, if we didn’t print a letter, perhaps the future they come from would wink out of existence, and the letters would cease. We decided not to take that chance.
Jon Bales is founder of a new Milwaukee organization, the Urban Aquaculture Center, dedicated to demonstrating how urban fish production can become a sustainable foodproducing industry. Milwaukee has an unprecedented opportunity to remove itself from its rustbelt city image and move in a purposeful direction using a new set of tools. It can do this by embracing the latest in green innovation and becoming recognized as a leader in urban agriculture.
by Janice Christensen, Editor Emerita First let me say how pleased and proud I am, at the glorious age of 98, to be asked to write an editorial for this Mid-Century 48th Anniversary Edition. I guess Madeleine and Abneris and Bodhi and the rest of the gonzo-kid journalists over at the Riverwest Currents decided I […]
Many people are familiar with Gandhi’s principle of non-violence, or ahimsa. However, there are three other principles of Gandhi’s teaching that are vital to understand if one is to use his ideas as he intended.
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