Connect with Local Food Producers

This weekend is one of my favorite events of the year; the Local Food and Farmer Open House at Milwaukee's Urban Ecology Center.

You can stop by the UEC from 11am-4pm to meet CSA farmers, attend workshops, find a local source for meat or milk or eggs, and visit with other community members as interested in sustainable food as you.... 

Find all the details, and a list of local CSA farms here.

Adopt Your Own Milwaukee Apple

Milwaukee Apple—Fall of 2011 

Maple Valley Orchard

Join Slow Food WiSE and the handful of orchardists, chefs, and food activists who are bringing antique apples back to our tables by "adopting" your own Milwaukee Apple for your backyard or community space. 

There are only five known Milwaukee apple trees in Milwaukee County. One located in the Urban Ecology Center’s Washington Park fruit orchard, was planted by Slow Food WiSE along with a group of youth and volunteers in 2011.   The other four Milwaukee varietal trees were planted in the Spring of 2010 by Slow Food WiSE volunteers at the Historic Stahl Conrad Homestead in Hale’s Corners, along with Pewaukee and Oneida Apple varieties.

Because the Milwaukee Apple is just one of hundreds of thousands of endangered or extinct apples that have disappeared from our plates, and we are promoting place based biodiversity, we are also adopting additional rare varietals with roots in Wisconsin--the Pewaukee, Oneida, Bonnie Best, and Wolf River.

To learn more and to adopt you own, follow this link.