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This project is located within the Harambee neighborhood. Buffum Park is a community project a few years in the making. It is spearheaded by longtime (40 years plus) resident Ms. Josephine Keys. Prior to Love Your Block the space had two garden beds and two bench planters that were in need of some TLC. Youth volunteers from Milwaukee’s Earn and Learn program helped with cleaning up, weeding and putting in a new wood chip path. More volunteers from community partners and the neighborhood helped add wood to raise the garden beds (to make them more ADA compliant),

fixed old planter benches and filled the garden beds and planters with new soil. 

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Project Location: 3123 N. Buffum Street

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Project Leaders:

• Ms. Josephine Key, Long time Harambee resident 

• Ruth Weil, Riverworks

• Mark, Safe and Sound, D5 Community Organizer 

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Project Break Down:

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•  June 24th 2020: Litter clean up, weeding, mowed lawn, wood-chip path 

• June 27th 2020: Garden beds raised, soil added to beds and planters, planter benches fixed  fixed

• July 24th 2020: Planter benches and garden beds painted

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A special thanks to Sherwin-Williams Paint for donating paint!