By Brianna Schaefer, Programs Director
Welcome friends, this week’s focus is:
Harvesting the moment
With the wonderful late season rain and the sunny days that followed, gardens are springing to life and full to bursting with harvest ready treats in the form of flowers, leaves and fruits. For a menagerie of garden offerings check out this video of Trathen Heckman, our Executive Director, and his daughter Ella as they weave their way through their homestead harvesting a little bit of everything, including joy!
Now in its 4th week, the Grow a Garden phase of our Be the Change campaign is in full swing and so are our efforts to share the bounty. We are so fortunate to work with some amazing partners from Botanical Bus Bilingual Mobile Herb Clinic, Left Coast Wholesale, Mercy Wellness, Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, California School of Herbal Studies, Santa Rosa Junior College Shone Farm, Petaluma Bounty, West Marin Compost, Avalow and Barlas Feeds to provide garden kits for families in need. Over the next two weeks, we will distribute 300 kits that include GeoPot fabric pots, starts, seeds, soil and bilingual resources to help folks grow a bounty and provide more food security for themselves and their families.
Our goal for the Be the Change campaign has always been to offer support during this time of isolation and uncertainty and provide ways to reconnect to ourselves, each other and the earth. We hope you will dig into this moment and help us meet our goal of registering 300 gardens by the end of May! Get your hands dirty, grow some food and medicine, share your resources and harvest the joy of the season.