Milwaukee Native Wellness Garden promotes health, well-being

Native Wellness Garden in Milwaukee

The Native Wellness Garden in Milwaukee is a space that uses culturally significant plants and traditional Native American practices to promote health, healing, and community well-being. Lisa Albright joined FOX6 WakeUp to share more about the garden.

MILWAUKEE - The Native Wellness Garden in Milwaukee is a space that uses culturally significant plants and traditional Native American practices to promote health, healing and community well-being.

It began in 2014 as a result of a partnership between the Gerald L. Ignace Indian Health Center and UW-Extension. In keeping with the integrity of Native American organic agricultural practices, the garden prohibits the use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers.

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Native Wellness Garden plants and produce

The Native Wellness Garden features a wide variety of plants and produce. Some that can even help you live a healthy lifestyle. Diana Osberg joined FOX6 WakeUp to tell us more about the improvements the garden made over the summer.

Native Wellness Garden plants showcase

The Native Wellness Garden?s mission is to restore traditional practice of food as medicine. It serves as a space for the urban Native American community to gather and learn together. Diana Osberg showcases some of the garden.

Native Wellness Garden grateful harvest

The Native Wellness Garden is a space that uses culturally significant plants and traditional Native American practices. That's all an effort to promote health, healing, and community well-being. Nico Alamo shows us one of the many plants they grow in the garden.