Please join us in celebration at our Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for Green Infrastructure and Solar Installations in Lindsay Heights at Alice's Garden on Thursday, April 18th from 10:00am - 11:00am. In 2017, the Institute for Sustainable Communities Partnership for Resilient Communities, based in Vermont, selected Walnut Way Conservation Corps as one of two Partnerships for Resilient Communities, a prestigious national recognition and resource award. The partnership provided $150,000 to Walnut to expand and accelerate its work on energy and water resilience, through the efforts of Blue Skies Landscaping, as well as offered customized technical assistance, and access to ISC’s large national network of sustainability practitioners across the country.Read More

This year we are reinvigorating our Neighbor Nights with a series of classes focused on healthy eating and nutrition by Chef Anomalous Campbell and Nutritionist, Bridgett Wilder. Each instructor will teach six classes to help participants on their wellness journey. All classes are free thanks to support from American Cancer Society. Classes begin March 12th!Read More

This spring, ArtWorks for Milwaukee will offer a Spring Arts Internship at Walnut Way. Teenagers from Lindsay Heights will create a small mural to beautify Sunshine Park, on 14th and North Avenue. The group of eight to 12 participants will learn about the process of creating a mural through lessons on content development and painting. Read More

Since 2014, Terron Edwards has supported leadership initiatives for men at Walnut Way as the Community Engagement Coordinator. He will continue to pursue his life mission to assist families, creating pathways for youth, and fostering the next generation of leadership around fatherhood and manhood, by taking a position in the Community Mentorship Program at Running Rebels.Read More

Co-founders Sharon and Larry Adams share their heartfelt beginnings renovating a boarded up home on 17th Street into a an active Community Center where neighbors took root in revitalizing the Lindsay Heights Neighborhood. The story by StoryCorps was featured on NPR.Read More

The King Holiday is more important than we could ever imagine for several reasons. Martin Luther King Day reminds us to appreciate that we are one nation of diverse people with unique cultural gifts and talents. It also reminds us that we can heal...and errors of the past can be corrected both in our government and our individual beliefs and values. King Day also directs our attention toward the possibility of a brighter future shaped and shared by all.Read More