Cherry Street Community Garden, Midtown, Milwaukee
During July 2022, we conducted a series of oral history interviews and short form conversations with residents of Cherry Court and members of the Cherry Street Community Garden. We asked them to describe the physical and social character of their community and tell us stories of their neighborhood. Our community partners told us that everyday small acts count. They spoke of actions such as rehabilitating vacant lots into productive urban gardens, offering cooking demonstrations, forming garden clubs, organizing residents around equitable food access, and intergenerational collaboration to end hunger and malnutrition. This website collects stories of stewardship and care from the members of the Cherry Street Garden Club—stories of people and places that show citizens as active agents and transformational stewards of their world