Members — individuals and organizations — are encouraged to collaborate on their projects, and to document their individual and collaborative projects here, on the pages of the Projects page-group. Members may have a page in the Projects page-group for each project; if the best documentation of a project would entail multiple pages, the project may be assigned an entire page-group (a “mini-website”!) for the purpose.
Current, upcoming and recent projects
Chicken and Bee Ordinance
A working group from MUAN have been actively involved in drafting a chicken and bee ordinance for the City of Milwaukee. It will need support to push it through the political process. Currently the drafted ordinances are being reviewed at the Department of Neighborhood Services, then it will move forward to the Common Council and Zoning.
Green Roof Symposium
A working group from MUAN are working with local businesses, community agencies and the city to bring a day long Green Roof Symposium to Milwaukee. More information will be available soon.
ALL-TUG
Teutonia Urban Gardens (TUG) and Academy of Leadership and Learning (ALL) and Michael Fields Agricultural Institute(MFAI) are building a large school garden with funding from the CERES/Milwaukee Foundation and Elaine’s Project. The 5,000 gallon cistern which collects rain water from the new roofs was just installed on May 15th. The kids have been busy growing seeds, woody plants and helping Walnut Way plant in preparation for their garden.
MUAN and many of its members were sponsors of this first North American urban agricultural conference. People joined us from as far away as Kenya, Ghana, UK, Canada, Alabama, California, Maine, New York, Missouri, it was an exciting event with much networking and new plans for everyone.
