Potluck + Caring for Community Orchards
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Topic: Caring for Community Orchards
Join us the third Thursday of each month for a Potluck with a Purpose. Eating foods that are good for you, our community, and the planet!��
Join our casual community potluck and stay for presentations on the food systems that nourish our lives.
Connect with like-minded individuals passionate about building a sustainable future. Share ideas, experiences, and join the conversation.
6:00 pm - Potluck dinner �Bring something to share and (if possible) your own plate & silverware.
6:45 - 7:30 pm - Speaker(s) and discussion
7:45 - 8:00 pm - Community Clean Up
Free and no registration is necessary.
Speaker: Jan Carroll
Learn about Jan's passions: taking care of orchards in parks and vacant lots -- and teaching others how to sustainably grow fruit.
Jan Carroll is a retired obstetrics nurse and citizen orchardist.
She began working as volunteer with the city orchards planted in 2015 after spending 25 years as a volunteer/employee at Growing Power.
Her passion is vacant lot community orchards, and she has been caring for the fruit trees in 16 “orphaned” orchards in the Harambee, Amani, and Midtown neighborhoods since 2017 as well as assisting the churches and groups who sponsor them.
Her focus is on caring for the orchards in a sustainable manner and on teaching orchard management to anyone who Is interested.
She has particular experience in pruning and the use of non-pesticide insect management and uses the permaculture philosophy as the basis of her orchard management.
Join us the third Thursday of each month for a Potluck with a Purpose. Eating foods that are good for you, our community, and the planet!��
Join our casual community potluck and stay for presentations on the food systems that nourish our lives.
Connect with like-minded individuals passionate about building a sustainable future. Share ideas, experiences, and join the conversation.
6:00 pm - Potluck dinner �Bring something to share and (if possible) your own plate & silverware.
6:45 - 7:30 pm - Speaker(s) and discussion
7:45 - 8:00 pm - Community Clean Up
Free and no registration is necessary.
Speaker: Jan Carroll
Learn about Jan's passions: taking care of orchards in parks and vacant lots -- and teaching others how to sustainably grow fruit.
Jan Carroll is a retired obstetrics nurse and citizen orchardist.
She began working as volunteer with the city orchards planted in 2015 after spending 25 years as a volunteer/employee at Growing Power.
Her passion is vacant lot community orchards, and she has been caring for the fruit trees in 16 “orphaned” orchards in the Harambee, Amani, and Midtown neighborhoods since 2017 as well as assisting the churches and groups who sponsor them.
Her focus is on caring for the orchards in a sustainable manner and on teaching orchard management to anyone who Is interested.
She has particular experience in pruning and the use of non-pesticide insect management and uses the permaculture philosophy as the basis of her orchard management.
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Where is it happening?
1500 E. Park Pl, Milwaukee, WI, United States, Wisconsin 53211
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Host or PublisherFriends of Real Food
