How We Will Reach Our Goals
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Implement educational initiatives promoting nutrition and training for small businesses and growers. Aid in the coordination, expansion, and availability of new grower education programs available to residents, and expand healthy food initiatives and programmatic educational opportunities within the neighborhood, specifically at Milwaukee public and charter schools, local supermarkets, and farmers markets. Use trained and qualified citizen community health advocates to provide neighborhoodlevel nutrition and health education.
Provide creative opportunities to generate income and commercialize urban agriculture. Promote and expand non-traditional food outlets, such as community-supported agriculture (CSA), food co-ops, farmers markets, neighborhood farm stands, and green carts, to provide growers with opportunities to easily monetize their healthy food production and processing. This can create new possibilities for residents to supplement income or even eventually lead to primary employment. Create alternate career paths for local youth through the educational system, new farmer training, health outreach, food distribution, and “rent-a-farmer� work opportunities.
How This Supports Job Creation t Farmer training creates new opportunities for supplementing income. t Vacant lot and foreclosed property reuse requires deconstruction, weatherization, repurposing from residential to commercial uses, and other skilled services.
t Milwaukee’s first food hub, hyper-local distribution, and aggregation of produce create new job opportunities.
How This Supports Education t Educates residents on how to cook and prepare healthy foods. t Trains homesteaders to remodel homes and landscape vacant lots. t Expands Earn-and-Learn activities for Milwaukee youth into the urban agricultural sector.
How This Supports Stronger Neighborhoods t Returns vacant property, which was a focus of crime, back to productive, cohesive community uses. t Creates connections between residents and local business through fresh food production, distribution, and consumption.
t Improves public health through better nutrition and access to fresh food.