What World Do I Want to Live In?
For Students, Videos from This Week's Classes, In the Garden, Thought of the Week Benjamin Brown For Students, Videos from This Week's Classes, In the Garden, Thought of the Week Benjamin Brown

What World Do I Want to Live In?

This week I'm setting up my first-ever worm tea rig (the brewing comes in my next video!), getting honest with you about a very full summer ahead, and reflecting on a question I keep asking myself: what world do I want to live in? Plus it's potluck week, the plant raffle, and a stack of videos on the Honorable Harvest and the Three Sisters. Come grow with me.

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The Garden as Medicine
For Students, In the Garden, Living Sustainably, Thought of the Week Benjamin Brown For Students, In the Garden, Living Sustainably, Thought of the Week Benjamin Brown

The Garden as Medicine

What if the best thing you could do for your health this week was go outside and dig in the dirt? In Issue 15, I share a full update from my parents' garden — the fruit trees, the flower border, two new blueberries, and an herb spiral I built entirely by accident — plus a deep dive into the science of why gardens heal us.

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I Have No Idea If This Will Work
For Students, In the Garden, Thought of the Week, Community News Benjamin Brown For Students, In the Garden, Thought of the Week, Community News Benjamin Brown

I Have No Idea If This Will Work

What does it look like when you try to put every principle of regenerative gardening into a single raised bed? This week the hugelkultur bed at my parents' place is finished, planted, and full of experiments — worm bins, winecap mushrooms, companion planting, and four tomato varieties all sharing the same few square feet of soil. I have no idea if it's going to work. But that's kind of the whole point.

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