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Case Construction Equipment
Case Construction Equipment donated the use of an SV280B skid steer to Victory Garden Initiative s 13th Annual Great Milwaukee Victory Garden BLITZ.
Case Construction Equipment donated the use of an SV280B skid steer to Victory Garden Initiative s 13th Annual Great Milwaukee Victory Garden BLITZ.
Volunteers built 385 garden beds and filled an additional 200 beds with fresh soil all within 29 days.
The Great Milwaukee Victory Garden BLITZ is the nation s largest garden-building event having installed more than 5,000 gardens across the Greater Milwaukee area. Beginning with a group of friends in 2009 who installed 35 raised-bed gardens in a single day Victory Garden Initiative s mission focuses on empowering communities to grow their own food and re-establishing the relationship between human and food ecology.
Becoming a farm family
We were living as a family in Milwaukee. I was teaching on 15th and Center. My husband was just beginning a dog training business. I was a special education teacher and taught in full inclusion classrooms. I was passionate about investing in the kids in my classroom, but also in their families …
I was having long stretches of unexplained bouts of illness, wasn’t anything I was catching from my kids in the classroom. It was discovered I had lupus. It is very unique to each person, how it affects you and how you manage it. I had no idea about anything with that back then; I was just happy to have a name and move forward. I discovered you don’t easily move forward from lupus. I kept getting progressively sicker. I was diagnosed with another autoimmune disease, gastroparesis, paralysis of the stomach. It is like having the flu 24/7. Very unpredictable. That took me out of the classroom, and I never went back. We wound up moving to Elkhorn.
Honoring Earth Day All Year
Individuals and groups can foster environmental sustainability
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Earth Day was born in Wisconsin at a time when the Badger State was one of the most progressive states in the nation. The first Earth Day in 1970 drew national attention to the widening environmental crises. Soon after, new governmental agencies and regulations helped revitalize polluted lands and waters, conserve natural resources and regulate toxic substances. Nevertheless, today we face even greater challenges due to the global climate crisis. That includes the irreversible melting of glaciers and loss of species and habitats. Most critically, if Earthâs temperature continues to rise, its ability to support life becomes uncertain.