Healthy Food Coming to Vacant Lots in Milwaukee

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Groups in Milwaukee are coming together to create a fair, local food system that allows healthy food access to all residents.

Outpost Natural Foods, a consumer-owned grocery co-op in the metro Milwaukee area, has given the city of Milwaukee Office of Sustainability’s “HOME GR/OWN Milwaukee” $20,000 to be used to transform vacant lots into food gardens.

According to the city of Milwaukee’s website, HOME GR/OWN Milwaukee empowers residents to transform neighborhoods by re-purposing vacant lots into community assets that spark new economic opportunities around local, healthy food production and distribution.

“I thank Outpost’s owners and staff for their generosity in funding this new public/private partnership between my HOME GR/OWN initiative and Outpost. Our goals are highly aligned in terms of increasing healthy food access and promoting increased local food production and distribution in the city,” Mayor Tom Barrett said in a Fox 6 news story.

Funds will be accepted and administered by the Milwaukee Economic Development Corps on behalf of the city’s program so that residents will soon be able to turn abandoned lots into flourishing community hubs.