Model Your Site, Educate and Share Resources with Your Community
Are your thumbs already a rich, deep green? Are you a water-wise wizard, a habitat-creating hero, or a conservation champion? Maybe you picked up some of these skills through our past Community Resilience Challenges! If any of the above apply to you, we invite you to take the next step with us and spread the goodness out amongst your community by becoming a Resilience Hub. You can be a guide to those just getting started with resiliency techniques, and by doing so you’ll build community with them, in turn strengthening each other’s resiliency! Stackin’ functions, baby.
Now, in these times of COVID-19, being a Resilience Hub requires some creativity. If we’re meant to stay home, we can’t be inviting the whole county over for a garden tour! Figure out what the needs and interests of your community are, and then ask yourself what makes sense for your home site. Once you’ve registered to be a Resilience Hub under the Grow a Garden section of our Be the Change Campaign, you can:
- Open a Garden Gallery: Got a garden in your front yard? Put up a Resilience Hub sign and invite your neighbors to peruse your oasis
- Propagate Sage (Advice): Set up out a socially distant Advice Booth in front of your home, where your neighbors can come and ask you gardening and resiliency questions
- Chalk it up: Write messages on the sidewalk in front of your home. Keep it dynamic! You could draw common plant guilds, share your favorite Sauerkraut recipe, or write out IDs for all the nearby plants
- Create a Curbside Commons: Put out a free stand where you can share extra produce, starts, seeds and more
- Phone It In: Set up a question-and-answer session on Zoom. Bonus points – link up with other Resilience Hubs to pool your knowledge
- Spill the Beans: Let your community know what you have to offer! Post on Nextdoor, Cropmobster, or social media to tell your neighbors what you want to share with them
- Spin a Yarn. The power of storytelling can’t be overstated; let those who are just dipping their toes in the water know how you ended up treading the waters of resilience like an Olympic synchronized swimmer. Some of these concepts seem overwhelmingly daunting until we can see how others have navigated the process. Share your story with us so we can ripple it out to the broader community
Be creative! See what ideas you can germinate, and let us know what you come up with!