Gardening Tips: Managing Wasps

Wasps have a bad reputation, but they are very helpful in a garden ecosystem. Read on for more information about how to manage wasps in your gardens.

Gardening Tips: Protect and Promote Pollinators

Pollinating insects such as bees, flies, butterflies, moths, wasps, and beetles play a key role in seed production for many flowering plants in the world. Horticulture Outreach Specialist Vijai Pandian gives advice on how to attract and support pollinators in your gardens.

Lessons and Fun in the Garden

Learn about the work our Horticulture Program and Master Gardener Volunteers are doing with youth at the Gerald L. Ignace Indian Health Center Native Wellness Garden this summer.

So You Want to be a Beekeeper?

Did you ever wonder what it would be like to keep bees? What of the idea of being able to harvest honey right in your own backyard or neighborhood garden. Or what about doing the right thing and helping to pollinate fruit and vegetable plants which provide food for your city. Our Beekeeping for Certification class […]

The Healing Garden

The Healing Garden John Kozlowski, Claude Foster, Rodney Pearsall and Paul Javins (center front) inside the greenhouse at The Healing Garden. By Yanitz Irizarry Thursday, June 2, 2016 Around the corner from a large green sign that reads: “Milwaukee: population 595,000,” rests a tranquil place that seems anything like a big city. It is easy […]