Welcome to Urban Impacts!
Urban Impacts mission is to bring Green Bay together around food and education. My aim is to provide nutrient rich produce through earth-minded gardening in the city.
I started Urban Impacts with 3 goals and missions in mind…
- Educate the Community- In this day in age you can’t trust much anymore. I’d like to educate the public of the importance of truly knowing your farmer in order to truly know where your food comes from. Many shop farmers markets to eat healthy and help area farmers but really what they get is sprayed on conventional farming produce that’s just not transported as far as the produce in the local grocery store. Always remember that you are voting with your dollars, and that farmers along with big companies do record and analyze how you spend those dollars!! Its how they know what to produce more of and less of the next year.
- Commited to Sustainablility- Protecting the environment and gardening with nature is first and foremost. I can do this by growing open pollinated seed and saving it from year to year, recycling containers by using them year to year, buying or finding most things used whether it be wood, rainbarrels, fencing, trellising, plastic coverings. Last but not least collect rainwater from a roof to irrigate the market garden.
- Bring People Together- I have been doing this for 4 years now and haven’t ran into many who want to make a change in our agricultural practices. I’d be excited to meet and garden with like minded people. I’d like to see market gardens on school and company grounds that have the vacant land. I’d also like to build a strong C.S.A on several urban plots to better serve the community since Green Bay is spread out. I’m ready to build gardens and connect with others, Who’s With Me?
