Alice's Garden

As the seasons change from summer to fall, the waning days of summer signal the end of the growing season to many. But fall can be one of the busiest seasons for planting and preparing your garden and yard for the upcoming year. Expert Venice Williams gives her tips on what to do in the garden this year.

Venice Williams says growing plants in isolation is not a natural practice and is something that was created to create uniformity in commercial farming, which is why gardens that implement companion planting see numerous benefits.

This month on Dig In!, Venice Williams talks about the very foundation of every garden: soil — not dirt.

Most of the world’s rice production occurs oceans away from the United States. In 2011, molecular biologist Michael Schläppi dove into rice research…

Music has its Grammy Awards. The movie industry has the Oscars. Live theater has the Tony Awards. But when it comes to revitalizing Milwaukee…

A few months ago, Milwaukee joined four other cities in the Thriving Cities Project. Each explored “what it means and what it takes to thrive in” their…

The high profile killings of two teenage boys have occupied headlines this week. First, there was the Trayvon Martin case in Florida. Now, in Milwaukee, the killer of Darius Simmons has been on trial. In both cases, the victim was a young black male, unarmed and confronted by a white man upset about crime.