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  • Cheese
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  • Grocery & Bulk Foods
  • Beer & Wine
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  • Baked Goods
• Local First Milwaukee
• Charitable Giving
  • Community Fund
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Meet Walnut Way

Walnut Way Conservation Corp is a resident-driven organization founded and run by neighbors living in Milwaukee's central city community bound by North Avenue, Fond du Lac Avenue, 12th Street and Walnut Street. Walnut Way works as a mediating organization to lift up neighborhood revitalization strategies that include resident-driven social, economic and environmental development.
 

Sharon Adams, Outpost's Owner of the Year for 2009!

Within this community, 87 percent of residents are African American, about four percent are Hispanic or Latino, 50 percent of persons age 25 and older have achieved a high school diploma or higher, 41 percent of families live in poverty. This is just a snapshot. One thing is for certain,  Walnut Way neighborhood is woven together with creativity, friendliness and vitality.

Under the guidance and leadership of founders Sharon and Larry Adams, Walnut Way has become an urban revitalization and environmental leader collaborating with many public agencies, business and nonprofit organizations to create an abundant and sustainable community. Their actions have They have successfully reclaimed their neighborhood, driven out crime, restored century-old homes, helped to construct new owner-occupied homes, transformed vacant lots into productive gardens, installed 40 rain gardens, planted a fruit orchard, offered programming to local youth, provided social and educational resources for adults and created a close-knit community of caring residents. Whew!

Take a stroll through their peach orchard, pick up a pint of honey from Larry's prize apiary, rub elbows with student interns or get your hands a little dirty helping out in the community garden. Visit Walnut Way and see community activism in action!

Learn about Neighbor to Neighbor, a new partnership program between Outpost and Walnut Way!