New north side community garden in collaboration with the Milwaukee Fire Department

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) — On Friday, April 15, neighborhood chief and founding father of the “We Received This” neighborhood backyard Andre Lee Ellis kicked off one other neighborhood backyard, this time in collaboration with the Milwaukee Fireplace Division.

The occasion was supported by many Milwaukee Leaders like Mayor Cavalier Johnson, County Government David Crowley and State Senator Lena Taylor.

“City gardening, city agriculture is the way in which of the long run because it pertains to jobs because it pertains to therapeutic, because it pertains to wellness,” stated Ellis.

It began when Fireplace Chief Aaron Lipski approached Ellis with the thought to make use of a 20,000 sq. foot plot of empty land proper subsequent to the fireplace home to good use. It took them a couple of month to plan every part. Their initiative referred to as CAGE, which stands for neighborhood agricultural rising experiences.

“That is going to be a means to offer elevated well being for the neighborhood, elevated entry, elevated connectivity for the fireplace division for the police division, all the town departments, all of the neighborhood group,” stated Chief Lipski.

The challenge has been an enormous neighborhood collaboration, college students from MSOE might be appearing as engineers of the backyard. Plans for the backyard embody a labyrinth, a hoop theater and so they’re additionally utilizing hydroponics positioned inside the fireplace home.

Ellis stated they plan to present out bins of meals to these in the neighborhood each week, he shared that his neighborhood backyard positioned close to ninth and Ring in Milwaukee has fed 1000’s of households.

The backyard is within the strategy of being constructed and Ellis assures us the backyard might be up and operating quickly.