IN A MOMENT WHERE WE’RE TOLD URBAN CENTERS AND RURAL COMMUNITIES ARE HOPELESSLY DIVIDED…
We are artists, farmers, and other community leaders from Milwaukee and Sauk County, Wisconsin, and the community-led organizations and networks that support them. We are invested in the health of our communities—including people, animals, plants, and the land itself. We are part of the Performing Our Future coalition, where we work with partner networks across the country to create a future where we own what we make.
We work to explore each other’s landscapes and communities and discover our interdependence, interconnectedness, and shared humanity. We work to promote curiosity, regional prosperity, and deeper understanding, and to be a renewable source of pleasure. We work to discover our latent assets and grow our communities’ wealth through making food, art, and culture together.
We began as a series of bus tours, bringing people in Milwaukee to visit Wormfarm Institute and Fermentation Fest in Sauk County, and bringing people in Sauk County to visit Alice's Garden and Alchemy on Lisbon in Milwaukee.
We are growing into an ongoing network of exchange, collaboration, and support.
**Rural Urban FLOW is searching for co-organizers! More position details and application info here.**
THE RURAL URBAN FLOW NETWORK INCLUDES:
Wormfarm Institute
Wormfarm Institute
Wormfarm Institute
Dedicated to integrating culture and agriculture, the Wormfarm Institute is an evolving laboratory of the arts and ecology and fertile ground for creative work. In addition to a farm-based artist residency Wormfarm hosts the annual Fermentation Fest and biennial Farm/Art DTour (featured on PBS NewsHour) which draw guests from rural and urban communities across the state and the country.
The Table
Wormfarm Institute
Wormfarm Institute
A ministry in north Milwaukee that runs the renowned urban farm Alice's Garden, The Table provides models of regenerative farming, community cultural development, and economic agricultural enterprises for the global landscape. The Table recognizes the cultivating, preparing, and preserving of food, and food traditions, as cultural arts to be reclaimed and celebrated fully in urban agriculture. To learn more, take a look at this video.
Rural cultural and agricultural producers
Rural cultural and agricultural producers
Rural cultural and agricultural producers
including Sarah Lloyd (Wisconsin Farmers Union), Kriss Marion (Soil Sisters), Curt Meine (Aldo Leopold Foundation), and Melanie Tallmadge Sainz (Little Eagle Arts Foundation) .
Urban cultural and agricultural producers
Rural cultural and agricultural producers
Rural cultural and agricultural producers
including Adam Carr, Sara Daleiden (MKE <-> LAX), James Godsil (Sweet Water Foundation), Dasha Kelly Hamilton (Still Waters Collective), Ck Ledesma (Cosecha), Martina Patterson (JupiterAllen LLC), Muneer Bahauddeen (Alchemy on Lisbon), Wes Tank, and Evelyn Terry (Terry McCormick Contemporary Fine and Folk Art Gallery)