Julilly Kohler

Julilly grew up first on a farm, then off the produce of a fresh vegetable garden as a child — often stealing the fresh peas off the vines in the early morning before her mother could harvest them to cook them for that night’s dinner.

• One of MUAN’s founder group
• Helped plan for and plant the Prairie Garden on Brady Street’s Lift Station Path, part of its award winning CrossRoads Project and Marsupial Bridge
• A team member of Elaine’s Project — a community garden and green house planned for summer 2007 in partnership with the Academy of learning and Leadership, Maures Development Group, LLC, Walnut Way and Michael Fields
• As President of Brady Area Foundation for Arts and Education (BAFAE) is working on RiverPulse, a public video art/water-quality project with Artist Ray Chi, Kae DonLevy, and Dr. Tim Ehlinger of UWM’s Biological Sciences Dept. whose data sondes will be transmitting real-time water-quality data that will be reflected in Ray’s video art, to be projected on the Water St. abutment under the Holton St. Viaduct, and will eventually connect electronically with other data sonde sites up and down the Milwaukee River Basin, including West Bend, RiverEdge Nature Center, Mequon Nature Center, the UEC and others.