...more About FEEDs
FEEDs stands for: Food, Ecosystem, and Educational Demonstration
sites.
The Demonstration site part of the acronym represents the objective
of FEEDs to designate garden projects in different geographical
areas that may serve as a model for others who are looking at improving
or starting their own community garden. And remember, a community
garden is anywhere that people are gardening together on common
ground. This could be anything from neighbors working together
to beautify a corner by planting flowers to a large vegetable garden providing food security
for those in need.
Here are some of the other objectives of FEEDs:
- Maintaining this website for the public to share information and pictures
of each of the gardens in all of the counties in Wisconsin.
- Providing an e-mail list serve of gardeners so that community
gardeners can more easily communicate among one another. This
quick connection provides garden coordinators the ability to swap information, plants and any other garden equipment.
Trading plants, tools, etc. is a great way to make good use of
limited resources.
- Providing education, support, resources, and research-based information to help strengthen garden projects. Stay up-to-date on workshops to help sustain your garden project and share intriguing ideas with like-minded gardeners.
- Helping struggling gardens with supplies they may desperately need.
Tools, seeds, transplants, educational materials can be received by donors.
- And lastly, as previously mentioned, designating demonstration sites in each
county so Wisconsin residents may visit and learn from sustainable
gardens.
Interested in Organizing a Garden in your Community?
FEEDs is a grant-funded project facilitated by the UW-Extension. Learn more about the FEEDs list serve
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