Alice's Garden

Lake Effect's Joy Powers joins Venice Williams at Alice's Garden for a new season of community-building and connection with nature for this month’s Dig In!

Lake Effect’s Joy Powers met up with Venice Williams and Abdul Qadir Hasan from Alice’s Garden to discuss how the urban farm is celebrating Earth Day and the start of this year's growing season.

Many plants are producing more now than any other time in the season.

Over the past few decades, Kwanzaa has become near and dear to the heart of Lake Effect contributor Venice Williams.

Learn how the gardening season here in Wisconsin may be longer than you think.

Though the growing season is mostly over, this is the perfect time of year to start dehydrating herbs.

The bounty of the season is on full display in Milwaukee, where farmer’s markets are overflowing with fresh fruits and vegetables. For this month’s Dig In! Contributor Venice Williams shares what’s popping in the garden and what this time of year can teach us about our relationship with the earth.

The bounty of the growing season is on full display this month and it can be difficult to figure out how to use everything from the garden this time of year. One overlooked solution: making a cup of fresh tea. We explore three common plants that can be used for medicinal teas.

Dig In! contributor Venice Williams has been the longtime executive director of Alice's Garden, and she is taking on a new role as the interim-executive director of the Fondy Food Center. Williams shares some of the many events happening at these places this summer.

Most of us have already put away our gardening tools for the season. But there are still great ways to get fresh, local produce and continue using it throughout the winter season. Every month, Venice Williams, the executive director of Alice’s Garden, shares tips for our series called Dig In! which is all about gardening and healthy cooking.