Community Gardens Servicing Near West Side Milwaukee
Last year we participated for the first time in Seed Money’s Challenge. This takes place every year from November 15th to December 15th. We received over $3200 in donations via the challenge and or our efforts were given $100 and then another $400 from Seed Money. After the challenge was […]
We had the final apple harvest this past Saturday at Mulberry Hill. Things are winding down but we are still picking small amounts of green beans, cucumbers, zucchini, beets. Also picking fall planted spinach, radishes and lettuce. Fall peas are starting to bloom as well as the green beans planted […]
Dear Friends of Mulberry Hill, We are making progress toward closing down the garden for the season. Potatoes, leeks, tomatoes, broccoli, turnips, carrots have all been harvested. Still picking green beans, beets, spinach, cabbage, lettuces, cucumbers, zucchini, radishes, collards, apples, peppers, okra and herbs. We expect to pick most of […]
Friends and Supporters, We had a good day yesterday with 9 volunteers contributing 30 hours of service. This brings the weekly totals to 11 volunteers contributing 44 hours. Special thanks to Donna, Claudia, Clarissa, Amelia, Barb, Laina, Brandi, Ken, Shelly, John and Bob. This week the monthly donations increased […]
Hello Friends of Mulberry Hill, We harvested 410 lbs of produce this week. 130 lbs were delivered to Neighborhood House food pantry on Thursday and 230 lbs went to College Court apartments on Saturday. 50 lbs of produce went home with volunteers. To date we have harvested 1910 lbs of […]
This past week we reached our goal of raising $4,000 to match the $4,000 grant given to us by the Cityof Milwaukee. We have completed the projects that were funded by the grant. One of the projects was to complete a drip irrigation system. This project will be revisited in […]
Dear Friends of Mulberry Hill, A great week at Mulberry Hill Gardens. We finished the trim on the barn, witnessed some active nature, harvested 395 lbs of produce, had a great team of volunteers on Saturday and reached our $4,000 CIP matching Grant goal. We delivered 325 lbs. of produce to […]
Dear Friends, this is more like a monthly report as foriegn travel and Covid slowed down our efforts. In the past four weeks fifteen volunteers worked over 130 hours. Special thanks to Donna, Clarissa, Claudia, Barb, Marion, Dexter, Ken, Amelia, Jim, Marge, Lavorn, Xiong, Htee and Darrell. Over a 1,000 […]
Mulberry Hill will be open for volunteers to help at the garden at the the following times: Mondays 5:00 to 7:00 pm, Thursdays 11:00 to 1:00 and Saturdays 10:00 to 12:00. Some garden managers will work at other times, but the garden will be closed for volunteers. After working for at […]
Hello All, we recieved $1,010 in donations this week and are just $145 short of our goal of matching the Community Improvement Grant from the City of Milwaukee. Many thanks to those of you who have given to support this challenge. This week we had a board meeting at the garden with […]