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New Leaf 10th Garden Blitz
Box Build: April 29, 2023 *** Installation: May 5-7, 2023
Empowering Green Bay residents to grow food and be part of a sustainable urban agricultural system.
Since 2014, volunteers have installed over 880 raised bed garden boxes in Green Bay schools, homes, pantries, and organizations.
For $199, customers purchase a 8’L x 4’W x10” high garden box, including delivery, installation, and soil. Boxes can be purchased for homes, schools, churches, or businesses.
You can become a part of the annual Garden Blitz tradition:
Support our Urban Food Forest Initiative: Order your fruit and nut trees and bushes today for the 2023 growing season!
- The plants are bare root and cost $15.00 a set.
- Raspberries and Blackberries come in sets of 3. All other plants are in sets of 2
Pick up your orders
Saturday April 29, 2023: 8am- 5pm
Friday May 5, 2023: 8:30am -12pm and 12pm - 4 pm
Saturday May 6, 2023: 8:30am- 12pm and 12:30pm -4pm
Sunday May 7, 2023: 8:30am -12pm and 12:30pm -4pm
New location: 940 Prairie Avenue, Green Bay, WI 54303
Payment is at time of pick up. Place your order here!!!
https://newleaffoods.org/new-leaf-food-forest
Blitz Box Build: Sat April 29, 2023 8:00am to 5:00pm
940 Prairie Ave Green Bay Wi 54303
- New Leaf Foods will be using power tools and proper PPE (personal protective equipment) to build multiple 8’L x 4’W x10” high garden boxes at our headquarters. After building the Garden Boxes, they will then be delivered to their garden sites for construction.
Garden Box Installation: May 5-7, 2023
940 Prairie Ave Green Bay Wi 54303
- Friday May 5, 2023: 8:30am-12pm and 12pm-4pm.
Task: Deliver garden boxes and soil around the community
- Saturday May 6, 2023: 8:30am-12pm and 12pm-4pm.
Task: Deliver garden boxes and soil around the community
- Sunday May 7, 2023: 8:30am-12pm and 12pm-4pm.
Task: Deliver garden boxes and soil, and clean up the site
Our program also benefits from community support including:
McDonald Companies
Nature’s Way
Stein’s Garden & Home
Willems Landscape Services Inc.
Lamar Advertising Company
WPS
Cellcom
Schreiber Foods, Inc.
Green Bay Packers Foundation
In collaboration with Brown County Community Gardens Programs and Green Bay Botanical Gardens.
Together, we can empower Green Bay residents to grow food and be part of a sustainable urban agricultural system.
Contact Information:
Contact Garden Blitz at GBGardenBlitz@gmail.com
Call us at (920) 32B-LITZ
Visit our website at https://newleaffoods.org/garden-blitz
Visit us at the Market on military
New Leaf Foods Chef's Table at the Market
When: Saturday April 1 and 29, 2023
9:00am to 1:00pm
Where: Indoors at the Green Bay Plaza, next to Big Lots, on the corner of West Mason and Military Ave.
Join New Leaf Foods at the Market on Military April 1 and April 29, 2023 to learn all about our current programs AND hear about our newest program, Chef's Table at the Market, debuting this summer at Green Bay Farmers Markets!!
OUR PROGRAMS
New Leaf Garden Blitz
Celebrating our 10 year anniversary where we build and install garden boxes in households, schools and community organizations.
https://newleaffoods.org/garden-blitz
New Leaf Food Forest
An offshoot of the Garden Blitz. Food forests are plantings of edible landscape plants like raspberries, blackberries, elderberries, plum trees, apple trees, black chokeberries, and hazelnuts that not only enhance the beauty of any yard, but also provide growers with yummy, healthy options that grow year after year.
https://newleaffoods.org/new-leaf-food-forest
Brown County Seed Library
Through local partnerships, the Brown County Seed Library provides education, encouragement, resources, and seeds to all community members to protect the current and future food supply. The Seed Library fosters self-reliance and empowers individuals to grow nutritious food and complementary plants that support pollinators.
https://newleaffoods.org/brown-county-seed-library
NEW Food Forum
Food and health businesses, and organizations partnering to identify the entities in our local food system and strengthen relationships within it. The forum is working towards a Healthy Local Food Charter that advocates for healthy local food policy.
https://newleaffoods.org/about-new-food-forum
Chef's Table at the Market
New Leaf Foods newest program, Chef's Table at the Market, connects our community to our growers and food producers with locally focused recipes.
Learn more about the Market on Military
Have you signed up to be a New Leaf Garden Blitz Mentor?
Join us for a Training Session
When: Wed April 12, 2023
Time: 4:00pm-5:00pm
Where: STEM Innovation Center, 2019 Technology Way, Green Bay, WI 54311
Garden Mentors are assigned a new gardener who has received a New Leaf Garden Blitz Garden Box or rented a plot through the Brown County Community Gardens Program. Pairs meet five times (virtually or in person, typically at the mentee's home or community garden, to be decided by each pair) over the course of the season to provide guidance and build gardening confidence.
Mentors will receive a mentoring guide filled with helpful handouts, tips, and a schedule of topics to cover. All mentors are required to complete an orientation and a background check to become an official volunteer of Brown County.
Want to become a Garden Mentor? Sign up here using the link below.
Food Forest Guide: Planting your perennial Food Plants
You may have ordered perennial plants through New Leaf Foods as part of the New Leaf Food Forest project or are planning to plant perennials this year and are wondering, what now?
Join us for a virtual mini class :
Food Forest Guide: Planning, planting and maintaining your perennial food plants
Monday April 24, 2023: 6 pm to 7:30 pm and Monday May 15, 2023: 6 pm to 7:30 pm
This is a virtual Zoom event.
Pre-register here.
https://forms.gle/kQeuLw26RMCasovM7
- Once registered you will be sent a Zoom link to join the meeting
Your teacher will be Dillon Weist, Bounty Garden Manager and Lab Assistant for the Sustainable Agriculture program at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College.
Food forests are plantings of edible landscape plants like raspberries, blackberries, elderberries, apple trees, hazelnuts and currants that not only enhance the beauty of any yard, but they also provide growers with yummy, healthy options that grow year after year.
Some questions you may have about the best ways to plan, plant and take care of these special food producers. You have to plan for small plants now, that will grow large over the years.
- Which plants should I select?
- What kind of habitat do they prefer?
- How wide apart should I space the plants?
- How big will they grow?
- What kind of soil fertilizer might I need?
- How deep do I plant?
- How do I maintain and prune the plants?
- What are the best options for weed control?
- How long will they last?
- When can I expect my first harvest?
- How can I preserve the harvest?
- What mistakes should I avoid?
The New Leaf Food Forest Project is offering perennial fruit, nut, and berry shrubs and trees for sale at a very low cost.
Order your fruit or nut trees and bushes Here!
https://newleaffoods.org/new-leaf-food-forest
- Supplies are limited.
- The plants are bare root and cost $15.00 a set.
- Raspberries and blackberries come in sets of 3. All other plants are in sets of 2.
- Payment is at time of pick up.
Pick up your orders during the New Leaf Garden Blitz event April 29 or May 5-7, 2023 at our new location, McDonald Companies 940 Prairie Ave, Green Bay, WI.
Thank you for being a part of the sustainable urban agriculture movement!
Our program also benefit from community support including: Green Bay Botanical Gardens.