The 17th Annual Milwaukee Blitz dates will be announced SOON!

Registrants of the BLITZ must reside in Milwaukee County, we do not fulfill orders outside of Milwaukee County. We deliver and install all components of a BLITZ Garden Bed purchase!

Raised Garden Beds installed through the BLITZ are 4 feet by 8 feet in length and width and 10 inches in height. This gives you 24 square feet of gardening space per box. Unfortunately, we do not installed raised beds on legs that reach off of the ground.

-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.

-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!)

The cost of the garden beds is based on income-level. We operate under an honor’s system, there is no income check. However, we only offer a limited amount of $25 garden beds, so please operate with the need of others in mind!

If you make $40,000 or less annually | $25.00

If you make $41,000-$75,000 annually | $100.00

If you make $76,000 or more annually | $250.00

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 beforehand by laying cardboard/burlap pieces or using flags/marking paint.

- 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. 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 19th as we have a very tight schedule to keep.

- We will do our best to contact you in the days before your bed is to be delivered 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 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*

Registration for a BLITZ garden bed is expected to go live in early February on our website.

No, you do not need to be present.

Please mark the spot where your garden will be (see above under “When will my garden be installed?”) 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 ours who grow high quality seedlings and do great work with youth in the community.

Yes! You can order just soil through the BLITZ registration page 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:

This year, due to rising costs of materials, soil refills will be market price ($50/cubic yard)

We are grateful to everyone who is interested in volunteering, if you would like to be a part of the movement fill out our registration form → Volunteer registration

Educating the youth and adults in our community on how to cultivate food is an important aspect of our mission! Join us in learning more about growing food through our Move Grass Classes, taught by Farm Manager LaDonna Green! Dates TBD.

You can email our Blitz Coordinator at chlo@victorygardeninitiative.org