My New Year Resolution: GROW MORE GARDENS!

As an elder, it is my responsibility to pass on what I know to the newer humans on the planet. Not because I'm so smart or even more experienced. Some times it comes down to what my mother and grandmother liked to tell us: don't do as I do, do as I tell you to do!

Let's face facts: the elder generations came from a time when technology and chemicals were believed to be the salvation of the planet. We know better now and certainly a great deal of that knowledge has come from those younger than we but still....we have gifts to share, we have to remind them over and over HOW we were taught what we came to believe, HOW to perceive the world in a way that is different perhaps than we were taught to believe.

In some parts of the world, hunger remains simply because people do not know how to utilize what is all around them. That is until someone around them begins to grow food and the spell is broken. Oxfam International works in a variety of ways to empower people all over the world to become self-reliant in feeding themselves. Come watch an amazing elder from Uganda and you can see how well bag gardens and raised bed keyholes and growing in found objects can produce food in limited spaces. These are the types of small gardens I promote in my book (simply garden small!) and which are flourishing all around the world. Try one this growing season!