Alice’s Garden Urban Farm
Based in Milwaukee, “Alice’s Garden provides models of regenerative farming, community cultural development, and economic agricultural enterprises for the global landscape.” The farm itself is named for Alice Taylor-Meade, a local organizer whose work centered around developing neighborhood communities through gardening as well as education and youth development. Like many other urban farms, Alice’s Garden acts as a community hangout space. In addition to the garden beds themselves, there’s a walking labyrinth, yoga classes, and other events regularly held in the space. There is an emphasis on nourishing both the bodies and minds of the community built into the very structure of the farm. They partner with a number of universities, churches, organizations, and businesses in the area.
One part of their website I particularly like is the historic timeline of the land they reside on, both the tract itself and Milwaukee at large. Here they note the ways colonization and white supremacy has shaped the land and community, framing Alice’s Garden as a site of resistance.