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Map: Five Orchards

Posted by Editor | Apr 18, 2016 |

The Victory Garden Initiative held its Fruity Nutty tree planting project on April 16. This map shows the five winning locations for 2016 around Milwaukee County: Hales Corners, Centro Hispano, Urban Eden Community Garden, Five Points, and Gordon Place. Each site received an orchard of fruit and nut producing trees like hazelnuts, cherries, peaches, pears, apples, and plums. Read the article, navigate the map, and view the photo essay that was produced as companion features for this news...

Photo Essay: Where cheese and technology meet

Posted by Editor | Apr 15, 2016 |

The 2016 International Cheese Technology Expo was held at the Wisconsin Center from April 12 to 14.

Margaret Mittelstadt: Connecting the dots to healthy foods

Posted by Editor | Apr 14, 2016 |

Healthy food accessibility intersects every aspect of social and economic prosperity in Milwaukee, and Margaret Mittelstadt has worked for years to connect local communities back to the farm in an effort to help the public rediscover what was lost in the modernization of agriculture and urbanization daily life. | Q&A with Margaret Mittelstadt Milwaukee Independent: What has some of your work been regarding the local food movement and healthy food accessibility? Margaret Mittelstadt: Working for the Outpost Natural Foods Cooperative has allowed me to connect to the local food movement and healthy food accessibility in myriad ways. I see my...

Margaret Mittelstadt: If you plant it, they will grow

Posted by Editor | Apr 14, 2016 |

Healthy food accessibility intersects every aspect of social and economic prosperity in Milwaukee, and Margaret Mittelstadt has worked for years to connect local communities back to the farm in an effort to help the public rediscover what was lost in the modernization of agriculture and urbanization of daily life.

Purple Door commemorates Milwaukee Day with new flavors

Posted by Editor | Apr 14, 2016 |

The celebration of April 14 as Milwaukee Day has become popular over the past six years, because of the date’s connection to the city’s area code. Purple Door Ice Cream also has the distinction of commemorating its founding on 4/14. To honor its fifth year anniversary, owners Lauren and Steve Schultz will launch their new and uniquely Wisconsin flavor, beer & pretzels. The urban ice cream maker will also offer 12 Milwaukee-inspired flavors, including Cheesecake (Simma’s Bakery), Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough (Sugar and Flour), Coconut Gorilly Goods (Gorilly Goods), Raspberry Peach Pie (Honeypie Cafe), Whiskey (Great Lakes Distillery), Mango...

Reggie Jackson: Things We Don’t Talk About

Posted by Editor | Apr 11, 2016 |

As Head Griot of America’s Black Holocaust Museum and a voice for the silent generations affected by Milwaukee’s history of segregation, Reggie Jackson shares inconvenient truths to educate the public about the need for Economic Rights to finish what the Civil Rights movement started decades ago.