My Personal Engagement in the Local Food System

My Home Garden
I aspire to turn my family’s home garden into an edible landscape where my family and communities can…

• participate in food production,
• skill-share,
• develop local ecological knowledge,
• harvest food and medicine,
• and transform or preserve plants for eating or medicinal purposes

Gardening Collective:
Gardening builds community but sometimes gardening requires community too. Time, space, and knowledge can also be barriers to gardening. Building a network of gardeners that garden collectively could provide the support and resources required to get over this hurdle.

Projects that the Gardening Collective could participate in in my garden include...

• Cob Oven Building
  
• Herb Spiral
  
• Lasagna Gardening
  
• Edible Forest Gardening
  
• Landscaping
  
• Greenhouse (http://greenhouseofthefuture.com/)
  
  

Sustainability Literacy
I aspire to start projects that educate communities about resilience, adaptive management, local ecological knowledge, and social capital to inspire action and paradigm shifts.

Ideas so far include...

• Bio-blitz
  
• Lexicon of Sustainability
  
• Project Localize
  
• Skill-Shares