Cultivating Change: How Gardening In Your Place Grows the World Better Webinar Takeaways

How is gardening a tool for social and political change? What does it mean to say "gardening is for everyone" in this time and place? What can you do right where you are to make the world a better place?

Key Takeaways: What We Sow Matters - Be a Big G Gardener

Physically

• Keep growing, support gardens & gardeners

• Grow some food, save some seed

• Grow a lot of natives (food for humans & other animals), save some seed

• Use no chemicals

• Grow from seed, enjoy the full cycle

• SHARE THE SEED

Philosophically

• Grow in & for Community (wild & human)

• Adapt & Evolve to your conditions

• Share your garden & seed love generously

• Grow connection

• Grow for the future - be a good seed

We are the seeds of the people, places, and plants we want to cultivate.

Thank you to our incredible speaker, Jennifer Jewell!

Many of you may be familiar with April's webinar guest, Jennifer Jewell, co-host of the NPR syndicated podcast Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden, and author of several books, including What We Sow, and The Earth In Her Hands, and Under Western Skies, Visionary Gardens from the Rockies to the Pacific Coast.

Recently, Jewell also launched the Cultivating Place Foundation, which works to create a world in which gardeners/stewards/growers and gardens/cultivated places are valued as powerful intersectional agents and spaces of positive growth and change in our world. You can read more about Jennifer's background here. 

Some of you may have heard Jennifer speak recently, as she is this year's keynote speaker at both the Landscaping With Colorado Native Plants Conference in Fort Collins but also The Western Landscapes Symposium in Pueblo. 

We're brought Jennifer back to her home state of Colorado (virtually) for this free webinar, to give everyone a chance to talk with her about the possibilities inherent in the intersection between places, environments, cultures, individuals, and the gardens that bring them together beautifully – for the better of all the lives on this generous planet.  Jennifer is in conversation every single week with inspiring people across the nation who have dedicated their lives to making the world a better, more just, healthy, and nourishing place through gardening.