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Alice's Garden Urban Farm is honored to be a partner with the Milwaukee Public Museum for Mandela: The Official Exhibition. In honor of the life and work of Nelson Mandela, we will plant a special community garden plot, Mandela's Garden. While unjustly incarcerated, Mr. Mandela planted a garden.We will plant this garden as part of our Juneteenth Day activities. We welcome you to join us in planting this special garden plot. Please, bring a pair of garden gloves, your favorite hand tools (if you have any, we also have tools), and help us plant...and remember this act of resistance.
“The Bible tells us that gardens preceded gardeners, but that was not the case at Pollsmoor, where I cultivated a garden that became one of my happiest diversions. It was my way of escaping from the monolithic concrete world that surrounded us. Within a few weeks of surveying all the empty space we had on the building’s roof and how it was bathed the whole day, I decided to start a garden and received permission to do so from the commanding officer.
“A garden was one of the few things in Pr*son that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it and then harvest it, offered a simple but enduring satisfaction. The sense of being the custodian of this small patch of earth offered a taste of freedom." -Nelson Mandela
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Alice's Garden Urban Farm, 2136 N 21st St, Milwaukee, United States