Solstice Potluck! Lunch and Learn and Make Art with Regenerate MKE!
Fri, Jun 20
|Bay View, Milwaukee
This is an opportunity for women landowners, farmers, farm workers, gardeners, and conservation professionals to connect around their shared interest in conservation practices and learn from one another. Lunch will be a casual potluck at Karen's home, a historic Bruno Nordberg house in Bay View MKE.
Time & Location
Jun 20, 2025, 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Bay View, Milwaukee, 2940 S Logan Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53207, USA
About the Event
This gathering will be an opportunity for women landowners, growers, gardeners, and conservation professionals to connect around their shared interest in land stewardship and learn from one another. It will be a casual lunch potluck hosted by Karen Lemke, on behalf of Regenerate MKE, which supports networking among permaculture-minded organizations in the Milwaukee River Estuary/ Rivershed. Their permaculture principles and ethics focus on: "Fair Share, People Care and Earth Care." Other partners are WiWiC and the Milwaukee Urban Ag Network.
Dr. Karen Lemke has been organizing around re-localized food systems since 2009, and is a member of the Design School for REgenerating Earth, hosting conversations about organizing our bioregions and processing collapse-acceptance/grief related to climate change. She conducted research on the power dynamics of who defines what local food is, and advocates for returning to relationship-based food, loving on everyone who helps get fresh food into our bellies.
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