UW-Madison Division of Extension for Outagamie and Winnebago counties are collecting information and are mapping out community gardens in the greater Fox Valley-Oshkosh area. This is the ever-growing map of gardens available to the public, with the purpose of providing a public directory so that residents more easily can find garden space. However, Extension is not providing any community garden coordination services – please use the contact information provided for each garden that is listed.
From Stanley Temple, UW Madison Beers-Bascom Professor Emeritus in Conservation:
Avian influenza is most easily transmitted when healthy birds come into close contact with a sick or dead bird. Although it doesn’t happen that often, the concentrations of birds at bird feeders can potentially provide the close proximity that can lead to an infected bird spreading the virus to other birds using the feeders. Especially if someone sees a sick or dead bird at their feeders (or simply want to take a
