Good Food for Good Health

On Friday, September 30, from 2-6 pm, UW-Extension, New Leaf Foods, NEW Food Forum, Green Bay Botanical Gardens, and Northeast Wisconsin Technical College Sustainable Agriculture Program will be holding a learning session to discuss the ongoing Urban Food Forest project. 

This past season, the Urban Food Forest project has focused on selling plants that provide an edible landscape - such as raspberries, blackberries, elderberries, plum trees, apple trees, black chokeberries, and hazelnuts. These are plants that not only enhance the beauty of any yard but also provide growers with delicious, healthy options that grow year after year. 

The facilitator of this event, Patrick Nehring, is a UW-Madison Extension Community Development Educator and Professor who has provided consultation about regional food systems to over 300 organizations seeking guidance on how to strengthen the regional economy and enhance the local quality of life.

If you would like to be a part of the planning of this project, please join us to help envision its future. What would you like the Brown County Urban Food Forest project to look like? Where do you think the Urban Food Forest project should be located? What types of plants would you like to see next year? How can we grow or source the plants we give out sustainably? What kinds of work or partnerships do you think could really make this project flourish? 

The Visioning Session event will take place on: 

Friday September 30th from 2PM - 6pm at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens.

Please sign up here to join: 

This event comes from the collaboration of efforts of University of Wisconsin Brown County Extension, New Leaf Foods, NEW Food Forum, Green Bay Botanical Gardens, and Northeast Wisconsin Technical College Sustainable Agriculture Program.