The 15th Annual Milwaukee Blitz will take place from April 20th - May 4th 2024

All of Milwaukee county is eligible to purchase a raised garden bed. Residents, schools, churches, businesses, etc.

Every BLITZ garden measures 4′ wide by 8′ long and 10″ deep. Once built and filled with high-quality, organic soil from Blue Ribbon Organics.

-A 4 foot wide, 8 foot long, 10 inch deep untreated pine lumber bed construction* – no chemicals leaching into your soil!

-Delivery of 1 cubic yard of high-quality, organic compost/topsoil garden mix from Blue Ribbon Organics that will give your veggies all the nutrients they need to flourish without chemical fertilizers!

-Move Grass Grow Food yard sign – to show all your neighbors that they can grow their own food, too.

-Thanks to a generous donation from Stein’s, each BLITZ garden recipient will receive 5 packets of veggie seeds to start their garden growing!

-Installation by VGI volunteers (you don’t have to do any heavy lifting!)

-Endless community-building opportunities!

*If you were to build a similar garden yourself, you’d spend between $185 – $400 with lumber, seeds, organic soil and delivery costs, not to mention all the time you’d spend putting it all together. Plus, your purchase helps us keep doing the work we do, building communities that grow their own food!

The cost of the garden beds is based on income-level.

<$40,000/annual: $25

$41,000-$75,000: $100

>$76,000: $250

We cannot predict precisely when your garden will be installed because this is a volunteer-driven event. However, the process for garden installation looks like this:

-Beds are installed each year over a two-week period in late April, early May. Please have your garden site marked off and prepared by April 20th. Our volunteers will not deliver soil to beds if the location isn’t clearly marked. We will instead build the frame and leave it without soil while we try to contact you. This means we will have to come back to deliver soil , which drives up our costs in fuel and wears out our volunteer labor force. Please don’t do this!!!! Our volunteers will also do their best to level your beds, but if you need major leveling, sod removal, or brush cleanup etc., please do so before April 20th as we have a very tight schedule to keep and our volunteers are not trained landscapers!

-We will do our best to contact you in the days before your bed is up for delivery to confirm that your space is prepared. Volunteers will also attempt to contact you when we are en route to your site to install. You do not need to be present for your garden to be installed, but please have the location marked out and unlock any gates so volunteers can enter the garden space. Don’t forget to put your dogs inside and to clean up dog waste in your yard so that our volunteers have a safe space to work in! Thank you!

*Two caveats on delivery. One is that we cannot deliver soil during rain events. Also, this year with the current public health crisis, we are doing our best to get through all our orders as quickly as possible, but we are doing it with a quarter of the volunteers that we normally have. Please be patient with us! We will get your garden bed installed as soon as the situation allows! If you haven’t heard from us by May 1st about the status of your garden PLEASE call us to confirm your order! There’s a lot of moving parts with this majority volunteer driven event and each year, despite our best efforts, one or two beds manage to slip through the cracks. Give us a call and we’ll make sure you are on the deliver schedule that week. 414-209-4070

Registration for a BLITZ garden bed is expected to go live on February 1st on our website here: https://victorygardeninitiative.org/blitz-registration/

No, you do not need to be present. Please mark the spot where your garden will be (see above under “What do I need to do before my garden arrives?”) and make sure there is access to your garden. If you have a gate, be sure to leave it unlocked!

Each BLITZ garden will receive a varied selection of 5 easy to grow vegetable and flower seed packets. Many grocery, hardware and dollar stores sell seeds, and garden centers carry transplants to get a head start on the growing season. We recommend Weber’s Greenhouse run by Teens Grow Greens! They are an amazing nonprofit partner of our who grow high quality seedlings and do great work with youth in the community.

Yes! You can order just soil through the BLITZ and volunteers will come to drop it off wherever you’d like during the event (just be sure to indicate where you want it dropped or spread in your registration form). Don’t know how many cubic yards to order? (1 yard = 27 cubic feet). Here is a free calculator: https://www.gardeners.com/how-to/soil-calculator/7558.html

You can sign up to volunteer here. There are guides posted on this page to tell you what to expect!

Of course! Please reach out to us by email: helpusgrow@victorygardeninitiative.org You may also message us on our Facebook or Instagram accounts. We will do our best to help!

You can email us at helpusgrow@victorygardeninitiative.org