...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 which contains information and pictures
of each of the gardens in all of the counties in Wisconsin that
we have information on.
- Providing an e-mail list serve of gardeners so that community
gardeners can more easily communicate between each other. This
provides the ability to swap information and even plants and 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 gardeners. We hold free workshops on sustaining
your garden project so that ideas and stories may be shared between
gardeners.
- Help struggling gardens with supplies they may desperately need.
We can do this by giving out tools and supplies that we have either
purchased or received by donation.
- And lastly, as previously mentioned, demonstration sites in each
county are being designated so there are demonstrations of sustainable
gardens for people to visit and learn from.
- FEEDs is a grant-funded project facilitated
by the UW-Extension.
Learn more about the FEEDs list serve
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