Salon - Visions of post-industrial Milwaukee
By Emma Mustich, Jan 7, 2012
Post-industrial visionaries nationwide have been “occupying” old factories and other buildings — not in protest, but in an attempt to make those buildings productive again — long before last fall’s first encampment in Zuccotti Park. A new exhibition in Milwaukee — part of a larger project to spotlight urban revitalization across the country — draws attention to the buildings, projects and people behind this stealthy (but steady) movement for positive urban change.
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Journal Sentinel - City wins grant to develop urban farms
By Karen Herzog, March 9, 2011
IBM will announce Wednesday that Milwaukee is among 24 cities worldwide to receive a Smarter Cities Challenge grant, which will give the city access to top IBM experts and technology to potentially expand local, cutting-edge urban agriculture efforts around the globe.
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The Wall Street Journal - Fish Are Jumping Off Assembly Line
By Joe Barrett, May 14th, 2010
With the lake's population of wild perch decimated, Mr. Fraundorf is helping the fish make an unlikely comeback, raising about 80,000 yellow perch and tilapia in tanks inside a cavernous former crane factory that sat empty for decades.
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New York Times - Fish Farms, With a Side of Greens
By GENEVIEVE ROBERTS, Published: September 27, 2010
The potential for urban farming is being explored in Milwaukee, where some of the leading aquaponics entrepreneurs are based. Sweet Water Organics, an urban aquaponics company, raises perch and leafy green vegetables in an old factory that housed a mining company until the 1950s.
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Journal Sentinel - Perch return to local waters - in an old factory
By Karen Herzog, February 5th, 2010
A new generation of yellow perch is being netted about a mile from Lake Michigan at an urban fish and vegetable farm called Sweet Water Organics, which mimics the Earth's natural ecosystem in a cavernous industrial building. Harnischfeger Industries once used the Bay View neighborhood building to make mining cranes.
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The Shepherd Express - Milwaukee’s Good Food Movement
By Sarah Biondich, Wednesday, October 6, 2010
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The Shepherd Express - The Future of Farming - Sweet Water Organics advances aquaponics in Milwaukee
By Sarah Biondich, January 2010
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Bayview Compass - Sweet Water auctions off first perch
Story & Photos by Michael Timm, January 3, 2010
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Third Coast Digest - November 1st 2009
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On Milwaukee - Sweet Water Organics lures local fish and produce
By Maureen Post, Sept. 11th 2009
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Bayview Compass - Down on the farm in Bay View
By Casey Twanow, July 31, 2009
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Outpost Exchange Magazine - July 1st, 2009
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Here’s more extensive Milwaukee Renaissance coverage of Sweet Water:
Milwaukee Renaissance Website - which includes quite a lot about Sweet Water’s hoped for partnerships with some Afghanistan, India, and British Commonwealth projects.
Susan Bence Public Radio: March & July
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