Food Freedom Milwaukee

08/29/2025

Lets get more native plants (in place of the invasives) in our parks!

08/20/2025

They can vilify us all they want. To be a true leader takes guts!!!

08/17/2025

No, it doesn't cause hay fever (that's our native ragweed), so let's get that out of the way first. Goldenrod pollen is heavy and sticky, not airborne like

08/06/2025

Gardening is a revolutionary act! 🪴👩🏽‍🌾⁠
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07/06/2025

Grow your own food with your neighbors and you get to keep your organs! Or keep eating corporate food.

Diquat is banned in the UK, EU, China and other countries. The US has resisted calls to regulate it

07/05/2025

Freedom isn’t fences. It’s food, friends, and a thriving backyard 🌿🤝
When community grows, we all grow.
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06/03/2025

Great org!

🔥It’s getting hot! With summer around the corner, June is heating up with so many opportunities for you to check out and get your garden growing even more. LEARN MORE: https://www.detroitagriculture.net/classes

The classes this month range from becoming a Grown in Detroit grower to storytelling to how to purchase land. Plus some special collabs with our buddies at Detroit Black Farmer Land Fund all month long!

Looking forward to catching you at one of these upcoming classes

06/03/2025

Plant Party! Come to Kuumba this Saturday at 2 and take a free seedling kit home!

Come join us for a fun day of planting your own food garden seedlings to take home with you!

06/03/2025

Local laws, ordinances, and HOA policies in many places across America require homeowners to have lawns or “traditional” landscapes.

They deliver citations and threaten hefty fines to any yard that’s not a perfectly manicured and sterile, lifeless lawn.

Meanwhile, we’re currently living in the 6th mass extinction event to ever happen on Earth. We’ve lost 73% of worldwide wildlife populations in the last 50 years. (Source: World Wildlife Fund’s Living Planet Report, 2024)

Habitat loss is a major contributing factor to this decline.

And yet, lawn policies that legally require private land to be sterile and uninhabitable for wildlife remain abundant.

The history of lawns is one of colonial values, flaunting social status, i.e. “I have so much land, I can use some of it for nothing!”, and a disconnect from and desire to control nature.

There are currently over 40 million acres of lawn in the US alone. This makes lawns the largest irrigated crop in America, outnumbering even corn fields.

“The analysis indicates that turf grasses, occupying about 2% of the surface of the continental U.S., would be the single largest irrigated crop in the country.” - University of California, Santa Barbara

This means there are millions of acres across the US with the potential to become wildlife habitat, pollinator gardens, carbon sinks, and to otherwise restore biodiversity and undo anthropogenic harm to the environment.

We need to make the change before it’s too late.

Be a leader by dedicating some or all of your yard to restoring biodiversity. Show your neighbors the benefits, don’t be scared to stand out, and make a positive impact on the world.

05/22/2025

Dragonflies are nature’s natural mosquito control. One dragonfly can eat hundreds of mosquitoes a day, helping keep pests at bay. By planting flowers like milkweed and butterfly bushes, you can invite these fascinating creatures into your garden and enjoy a mosquito-free space.