This class is for the growers, land stewards, and curious newcomers who feel called to respond to the instabilities and injustices that have become ever more visible. This is for those of you who want a grounded, powerful toolkit for creating gardens that nourish, protect, and transform. 

Resilience Gardening is more than a way to grow food — it's a way to grow community, climate adaptation, and collective care.

In this workshop, we’ll explore an interconnected approach to gardening that weaves together ecological health, resource access, and social justice. Whether you're tending a patio planter or dreaming up a neighborhood food forest, this class will help you engage with gardening strategies and concepts that nourish people and the planet — without burning out.

Through reflection, practical tools, and collective visioning, we’ll dig into:

Emotional resilience – naming climate grief and anxiety, reconnecting to purpose, and cultivating the emotional grounding needed to build a better world

Resource resilience – growing food, fiber, and medicine for mutual thriving

Ecological resilience – designing for biodiversity, soil care, and resilience in the face of more challenging environmental conditions

Social resilience – gardening as resistance, healing, and community connection, the history of gardens as survival tools, especially for marginalized communities, and how to use them today as instruments of social justice and living resilience infrastructure

If you’re dreaming of growing more than just vegetables — if you’re ready to grow resilience — this space is for you.