Milwaukee –  One man in Milwaukee has started a grassroots campaign,  hoping to put a stop to the violence here in Milwaukee by involving local young people in a community gardening program. It began when Andre Ellis started paying a teen he was mentoring to work on a community garden, hoping to keep him out...Read More

MILWAUKEE (WITI) — There will soon be food growing in the heart of Milwaukee, all thanks to teens. A block party was held to kick of the gardening season on Saturday, May 23rd. ‘We Got This’ and ‘Public Allies Milwaukee’ are partnering for a second year to clean up and plant gardens in the neighborhood...Read More

People living in Milwaukee’s 53206 zip code face tough problems, but on Saturdays, things are different. Thousands of the men from this zip code are in prison or have records. Jobs are scarce; poverty, almost universal. Some people sell drugs or their bodies to make money. However, on Saturdays in the Borchert Field neighborhood, neighbors have...Read More