TEUTONIA URBAN GARDEN 
Teutonia Urban Garden is a model for inner city redevelopment with a 24,000 sq. foot classroom, business incubation and community garden with the site provided by Maures Development in its mixed-use housing development, Teutonia Urban Garden and Handsome Plaza. Teutonia Urban Garden includes an innovative storm water management strategy and during its first phase will provide a hands-on, experiential classroom for Academy of Learning and Leadership, a K-8 Milwaukee public charter school. Read more>>>
ELAINE’S PROJECT
Elaine’s Project is inspired by Dr. Elaine Kohler’s passionate dedication to improving the health of inner city children. Elaine’s Project will address the damaging and often deadly health effects that inner city economic, environmental and social conditions have on its resident children and their families, particularly through increased health services and educational programs emphasizing lifestyle, nutrition and access to healthy foods. The goal of Elaine’s Project is to create a replicable Project-Based Learning program for healthier lifestyles and living environments toward improving student and family health, building awareness and capacity with an emphasis on generational sustainability.
Michael Fields Agricultural Institute will install and steward the maintenance of Teutonia Urban Garden (TUG) providing an Environmental-Based site for hands-on health and sciences fieldwork and the physical and mental benefits of outdoor activity for the Academy of Learning and Leadership student body during the school year and in summer in partnership with the LaVarnway Boys and Girls Club to which the Academy is attached. The Garden Educator will provide ecological education to students in their classrooms, on-site at TUG and through ‘mirrored learning’ on sustainable, rural farms as well as facilitate ALL teachers in garden-curriculum integration.
Better food, better behavior in schools project
The goal of this project is to study the relationship between existing healthy school lunch programs and evidence of behavioral changes in the participating students. » Project details
Milwaukee Urban Agriculture Network (MUAN) 
The Milwaukee Urban Agriculture Network (MŪAN) is a collaborative effort of Milwaukee-area individuals and organizations focused on advancing awareness and engagement in activities and policies that will promote the many ways that local production of food benefits a community. The network is composed of anyone interested in urban agriculture in Milwaukee.
Visit http://www.mkeurbanag.org for further information about urban agriculture in Milwaukee.
POLLINATING OUR FUTURE: 2008 Urban Agriculture Conference
Michael Fields Agricultural Institute hosted a highly successful conference addressing the barriers to urban agriculture involving a wide range of often disconnected stakeholders: urban producers, researchers, urban planners, developers, community organizations, and urban activists to address the most important and controversial issues of poverty alleviation, environmental and waste management, local economic, social and community development and global warming. Grow Urban.org
“To grow your own food gives you a sort of power and it gives people dignity. You know exactly what you’re eating because you grew it. It’s good, it’s nourishing and you did this for yourself, your family and your community.” Karen Washington
Urban Agriculture: A Feast for Our Cities
Over 250 urban agriculture practitioners and enthusiasts gathered recently in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for the country’s first-ever urban agriculture conference. The Pollinating Our Future: Urban Agriculture Conference brought together urban farmers, city planners, health officials, academic researchers, food and justice activists, neighborhood leaders and more. Read the full article to find out more about what happened at the Conference and what's next.
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SPIN-tastic Farming Goes to the Domes
MFAI and Mitchell Park Conservancy co-hosted the 2nd annual SPIN (Small Plot INtensive) Farming Workshop at the Mitchell Park Domes Pavilion in Milwaukee in February, as part of the Urban Agriculture Conference. SPIN farming is an agricultural enterprise model for urban and peri-urban areas complete with its own lexicon, planning and planting techniques, and marketing strategies. Read on to find out more.
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