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.
Currently the drafted ordinances are being reviewed at the Department of Neighborhood Services, then it will move forward to the Common Council and Zoning.
The City of Milwaukee has agreed to sponsor Green Roof Symposium: March 4th, 2009.
MSOE will provide the venue. More information to come.
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 garden opened in August 2008.
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.