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So proud to make the cover of @alivehealth with ou

So proud to make the cover of @alivehealth with our champion @aloeblacc ! It’s amazing to hear Aloe’s stories about growing mangos and avocados while seeing how much gardening can teach his kids, while co-founders @fgiustra and @kimbalmusk talked all about how growing and cooking has better their lives and made each food dollar get stretched beyond what you thought was possible. If you’re stressed, gardening can help with mental health. If you’re feeling not at home in your body, gardening can help with your physical health. If you feel lost or uninformed in how you’re connected to nature, gardening can take you back to school. Pick up a copy of this month’s @alivehealth to read all about the victories your donations and hard work has made possible!

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Today is #HungerActionDay , and people are steppin

Today is #HungerActionDay , and people are stepping up today to replenish food banks and advocate for anti-hunger initiatives both locally and nationally. Here at the Million Gardens Movement, we want to help our members give whatever they can, however that looks. You might be thinking “I can’t donate my two stalks of leeks, gallon of herbs, and radish bunches to my food bank!” Well, it’s more likely than you think. Take a look at @ampleharvest : they’re a wonderful organization that works as an intermediary for gardeners like us. Through their website, gardeners can find a pantry and donate their unused produce to them to help the hungry, pantries can register that they’re looking for fresh food from locals, and hungry families can find open and available means of food assistance. We can’t wait to work more with their service, but on this day of action we wanted to tell all members: check your fridge, your garden rows, and your pantry to see what you can donate to those in need today and over the weekend via ampleharvest.org . Let’s make this #HungerActionDay a day to remember.

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We’re so excited to introduce you to a #MillionG

We’re so excited to introduce you to a #MillionGardens Movement member and Ultimate Garden Party honorable mention, Macey Quintana, a 10-year-old who has started gardening at her family’s ranch in New Mexico. In fact, the very place that Macey now plants corn, lettuce, radishes, and more is where her great-grandma gardened! “She actually gave me some confidence,” Macey admits to us. But her gardening isn’t just familiar, it’s for mutual aid. Angelica, her mother, said that for two years Macey has been trying to expand her garden and yield so that she can donate garden-fresh food baskets to the hungry in her area. Although Macey has to regularly take care of ranch animals and weeds, she always pushes herself to tend her garden and keep working to grow the food her community deserves. Just like we were amazed at the abilities of the teacher Rosemary Gladstar, we were astonished at the endurance and plant-smarts of this young student. Macey sent us all these Thank you Angelica for nominating her for the Ultimate Garden Party, it was great to hear and be able to share her story!

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It's hard to see food insecurity, especially in is

It's hard to see food insecurity, especially in isolated dorms, campus stores, and when you're six feet apart at school. But according to a pre-pandemic Temple University study, nearly half of college students surveyed from across the United States struggle with food insecurity. In a Civil Eats article from last month, authors described Madeline Waters, a college student, being accepted into a food stamp program after being denied twice—and how much that changed her life. A pandemic expansion of food stamps meant that students who didn’t meet work-study requirements can still require fresh food. Can you imagine studying full time, being hungry, and having to work long hours to meet eligibility requirements? “I was really hungry, and my brain cells were barely functioning,” Waters explains in the article. Food access is a back to school issue, and this pandemic expansion will need to be renewed in December 2021. To ensure your community’s students stay healthy, consider writing to your local or state SNAP program about the importance of food access. A letter-writing table can be a fantastic addition to any harvest party for activist gardeners like ourselves. We have a link in our bio that SNAP program offices lists state-by-state, so you and your fellow gardeners can make a direct, local impact.

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We’re proud to announce we’ve officially launc

We’re proud to announce we’ve officially launched our #MillionGardens partner program, and who better to kick off our program than @growtherebellion ? Rebel Gardens sells high-quality seeds and grow kits, from purple kohlrabi microgreens to chamomile to Green Zebra tomatoes, all organic, heirloom, and non-GMO. As a product partner of the Million Gardens Movement, we’re so excited to have opportunities to share their seeds, kits, and spirit with our community. Make sure you’re following us on social media and our newsletter to enter upcoming contests and giveaways for fall and winter gardening with Rebel Gardens! If you want to learn more about Rebel Garden’s mission and Victory-Garden-empowered philosophy for a better food future, check out our link in bio to read the fantastic interview we had with their CEO, Jason Brunson. They have a bunch of new and fresh seed packs at their website rebelgardens.com , so make their selection your first stop if you need to restock at the end of this delicious harvest! Welcome to the team, Rebel Gardens.

In honor of Drake's newest album "Certified Lover

In honor of Drake's newest album "Certified Lover Boy," we thought we'd have some fun and mock-up what a gardening-focused album cover would look like. What do you think? 🤣 As a Canadian-American charity, it only felt right. And as Drake once sang, "Growing more too, I just planted a hundred seeds. It's ironic, 'cause my mother was a florist, And that's how she met my pops and now my garden is enormous." We don't think Drake is talking about being a #MillionGardens Movement member, but maybe one day!

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We recently had a wonderful conversation with @gro

We recently had a wonderful conversation with @growtherebellion and this quote just popped off the page: it won't be easy, but getting to that million will be full of good surprises. A tipping point to a totally different food system might even be less, but whatever the number, we'll fight until we can collectively grow a better future. "We need the tipping point where all of a sudden we can say 'We don’t actually need industrial ag anymore,'" Jason told us. "We can just grow our own.”

Sign up to tomorrow's newsletter to read more about @growtherebellion mission and how we can nudge the world, bit by bit, towards the food system we deserve. Link to sign up in our bio or at milliongardensmovement.org !

If you’re an educator (or know one!) who wants t

If you’re an educator (or know one!) who wants to bring your students outside to learn this fall, we want to help. We’re excited to share with you Big Green Jumpstart – a new rapid grant program created to accelerate outdoor learning that our co-founders at @biggreen are just starting up.

Thanks to the support of a generous donor, Big Green is now offering $2,000 flash grants to schools and educators everywhere. How the funds are used is entirely up to you, so long as you leverage your school garden to help more kids spend time learning in the open air this year.

The first round of funding will be disbursed on September, 17th. For key dates and application information, please visit biggreen.org/jumpstart. Check the link in bio to apply and tag an educator who could use a jumpstart to outdoor learning!

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New Movement member MarcoPolo11694 on Twitter show

New Movement member MarcoPolo11694 on Twitter shows off these raised beds he built after being inspired by the #MillionGardens Movement: what great constructions! They look ready for planting, and even though autumn is around the corner, it’s never too late to get started. Radishes, for example, can be squeezed into four weeks and take over all of these eight beds. We’ve been amazed by the community support we’ve seen from the $Floki community, a cryptocurrency that has really dedicated themselves to our Movement and ideals of food education and self-sufficiency. Marco originally was bullish in the $Floki community and got so into it, he jumped to plant with a green partner like us! Last week, Floki generously donated 1% of their monthly marketing budget to the Million Gardens Movement. That’s enough to jumpstart a thousand people gardening for the first time. Hope to see more Floki-inspired gardens very soon: tag or DM us your creations! And check the link in bio for our raised bed guide to help you grow.

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This has been a climate summer for the entire cont

This has been a climate summer for the entire continent, as drought conditions cover 85% of Mexico and forest fires burn across Canada, another reason why the devastation Hurricane Ida brought as our summer comes to a close hits even harder. Across the United States, from Gulf Coast to East Coast, people are gathering their belongings and assessing what they have lost. Can you help them by giving? Whether it’s through a garden produce donation service like @ampleharvest or hours of volunteer labor to @mutualaiddisasterrelief , we need you. We’ve compiled this list of organizations that feel an especially perfect for #MillionGardens members and volunteers. Which can you give time, food, or money towards? Let us know so we can personally thank you.

As we continue our #BackToSchool coverage, we want

As we continue our #BackToSchool coverage, we wanted to highlight an amazing entry to our Ultimate Garden Party contest: the teacher and herbalist @rosemarygladstar . Rosemary developed the first herbal school in California way back in 1978—only the start of several schools she helped found or plant-focused associations she has chaired throughout the decades. Rosemary has taught people to respect plants and the planet by teaching them through herbs, whether in person or through her 11 books. Stefanie, the herbalist who nominated her, wrote that she “may not have access to traditional health knowledge without her.” Rosemary’s work to protect foraging foodways and Native medicinal plants has been essential, and her entry really spoke to us. It looks like our Movement’s mission really spoke to Rosemary’s herbalism school, because they’re offering Movement members an exclusive discount on her program The Science & Art of Herbalism Home Study and Online Course) until this September 15th. If you sign up to our newsletter, you’ll be receiving the code in this Saturday’s edition. And if you don’t, visit our link in bio to sign up! Rosemary has so much to teach us and we’re all ears. Thank you Stefanie for nominating her and helping us discover her work.

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Have you ever had crows eat your entire cover crop

Have you ever had crows eat your entire cover crop seeds? This autumn of the “crow buffet” was a stumbling block at the urban farm @uptopacres , we are pleased to report they’re doing great now. In fact, we even sent a Million Gardens Movement reporter to their Washington D.C. farm to report on their tips and tricks for urban growing. If you plant at 120 feet off the ground, or maybe just from your windowsill or rooftop, you’ll learn a lot from master farmer Nick Berini. Click our link in bio to read all about their work and the lessons they learnt the hard way.

How’s this for an ecology lesson: you might have

How’s this for an ecology lesson: you might have the largest native fruit in all of North America growing in your backyard and not realize it. For the brief end of August and beginning of September, it’s in season, so now is your time to check your backyard, your garden, and your neighborhood to see if you can go on foraging session for this surprise treat. Can you guess what it is? If you’ve heard of the custardy Indiana Banana, you’re right: it’s a pawpaw. A pawpaw is a homey, surprisingly tropical fruit similar to a mango but native from Buffalo to New Orleans. It’s a rare delicacy that doesn’t transport well, so if you can spot one nearby and gather some, make something tasty while you can! Just remember to take one out of every seven fruits to keep the plant healthy and not overharvest. If you want to know more, read Belt Publishing’s Pocket Pawpaw Cookbook, full of recipes and ideas about the fruit. Or check out our link in bio for a recipe of a Pawpaw Pudding, which is a great introduction to the fruit in a form that lets the natural flavor shine through and not get oversweetened. Let us know what you find and cook up!

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Tops of onions, pits of peaches, and all those ann

Tops of onions, pits of peaches, and all those annoying seeds when you pop open a pepper: they all live second lives in the kitchen of a #MillionGardens Movement member because they’ve saved. As you harvest and process your garden haul, plan a day with your family to dig into your vegetable scraps to separate the seeds of plants you want to grow next season—they’re not one season closer to be adapted to your microclimate and your region! A seed saving afternoon is a perfect chance to decompress from the long growing season and discuss with your kids, partner, or roommates what fruit and veg they best liked to tend to and consume. However, not all plants and seeds are created equal - some require a bit more time or work in order to save seeds successfully. So visit our link in bio to read our full write-up on seed saving and how you can start to save money and time.

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Do your lunchboxes have enough Vitamin B? When stu

Do your lunchboxes have enough Vitamin B? When studying the ties between nutrition and performance, the Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning found that thiamin, also known as Vitamin B1, can have really help students’ learning experiences. A thiamin-deficient diet appears to be linked to irritability and aggression in students. Especially in the short term, a meal rich with Vitamin B1 can improve concentration, activity levels, and positive interactions with peers in school. Are you growing any of three garden vegetables richest in Vitamin B1? With the addition of other thiaminy foods that are harder to grow in your backyard (salmon, navy beans, and brown rice), you can help your kiddo stay a good student and fast learner. Be sure to follow for more back to school tips, and sign your garden up at our link in bio to receive personalized advice on growing some of these plants, like peas and squash!

Are you afraid your small or marginal patch of yar

Are you afraid your small or marginal patch of yard space can’t be gardened? @upfrontandbeautiful wants to bring your attention to grassy strips between the sidewalk/private property, or along the sides of driveways or fences, like this wedge-shaped grassy spot beside her driveway. Inspired by ecosystem designer Zack Loeks and the passive (and helpful!) environmental rebellion that planting food and pollinator gardens can be, she got to work and in six weeks transformed the area into a food forest: swipe to see a color-coded map of what’s taking root in this previously underutilized space.

These patch gardens are a perfect size for children to help manage, or even design, and they’re connected to your property, can be easily checked on before or after school, and are only about 25 square feet: a wonderfully manageable edible ecosystem. If you want to read how @upfrontandbeautiful built this ecosystem, she has a full write up at our link in bio—subscribe to our newsletter to be the first to read it!

One of the easiest ways extend the harvest—and a

One of the easiest ways extend the harvest—and a fun activity that kids of any age can help with—is drying herbs instead of immediately using them. Some dry and store better than others, with four ones especially jumping out as good picks for gardeners of any experience level. Once you have a few bundles of dried herbs, you can remove the leaves from stems and store them in a dark, cool place. The de-leafing can feel like a countertop hunt is a great fun: see who can get the biggest pile of dried leaves by the end of ten minutes! Have you grown any of these herbs?

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We’re proud to announce that Michael Chaney, fou

We’re proud to announce that Michael Chaney, founder of Project Sweetie Pie, has won our Ultimate Garden Party. Get ready Northern Minneapolis, you’ll be home to one of the year’s best garden parties! Project Sweetie Pie is an urban farm movement focusing on fighting for economic, climate, and food justice through the act of gardening: they’re a fantastic organization we can’t wait to support.

As the founder, Michael has been at the helm of regenerative agriculture in Minneapolis and working to build a better future through food sovereignty and delicious garden vegetables. The party will celebrate the long growing year and the opening of the Celestial Garden, their newest food forest and educational space. Expect seed giveaways, music, and, of course, free food.

We’ll be sharing more about Project Sweetie Pie in the coming weeks, but we wanted to take the time to showcase the community he is building and Lila, the young worker who nominated him—a really deserving entry and culmination of our Ultimate Garden Party contest. Lila will be receiving some party-time garden kits from @gardenuity and Michael and us will be off to the races to plan our September party. Can’t wait for you to participate!

We’re halfway through August, and the beginning

We’re halfway through August, and the beginning of the school year is right around the corner. The Four Horsemen of School Lunches wait for us in September: Uncrustables, vending machines, picky eaters, and the time sink of prepping lunches each day. Don’t worry: for the next 2 weeks at the Million Gardens Movement, we will be helping parents, kids, and teachers eat well and use the power of the garden to empower the youth. Our home, community, and school gardens can be a primary location for tasty, kid-friendly fruit and vegetables, but also places for learning and centering yourself after exhausting days. We’ll be covering all of that soon, but want to check in with our Movement members, whether you’re 12 or 55: what should we focus on in our Back to School program? What have you had problems with before, from meal prep to teaching nutrition? Or, what are you excited to focus on? Let’s talk!

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Thanks @mayemusk + @toscamusk for being #MillionGa

Thanks @mayemusk + @toscamusk for being #MillionGardens Movement champions online and in person! Have you joined them and added your garden to our our Movement? We’re getting to a million with the help of every single one of you. Visit the link in our bio to join and garden for a healthier, greener world today.

NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis

NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) analyzed global data last week and confirmed that July was the world’s hottest month ever recorded. Unfortunately, this surpasses the 2016 highest record, which itself was tied with 2019 AND 2020: it's heating up, and that is changing the health and longevity of every living thing. We want to know how your plants are doing and what heat-related problems your gardens are suffering. Perhaps we or our Movement members can be of service! DMs and comments open, hope you are staying hydrated at the least.

Swipe for a mouth-watering transformation of these

Swipe for a mouth-watering transformation of these simple garden vegetables from @oliver_english of @commontablecreative : Want to see how you can do it too? Visit our “Party” Instagram Stories highlight to watch eggplant become baba, romanesco broccoli get quick-roasted, and multicolored carrots light up a plate. Spreads are always reinvigorating: not only are they filling, they inspire us to grow more veg for more spreads! Thanks for showing off Oliver, now we’re going back to harvesting! 🤣💚🥬🥕

What do you called this tool that shades gardens i

What do you called this tool that shades gardens in the worst heat of the summer? It goes by a few names, so we're curious if there's regional slang or family nicknames for it: Abigail O'Brien's mother called it a "bean bonnet," and it really helps her Floridian garden! As she writes in our new guide to gardening in the heat, it’s not always realistic to be able to plant a garden under a tree or natural shade, so you can simulate the same sun protection with a bedsheet , old curtain, thin beach towel, or even old t-shirts if you cut them open! Any extra bean poles can be used to hold the thin material up, or rope and stakes, and in an afternoon you can save your garden veg from the striking heat in this climate-intensified summer. Read more of O'Brien's wonderful tips and tricks at our blog, link in bio or at:

https://milliongardensmovement.org/seven-secrets-to-help-your-garden-beat-the-heat/

Some stellar party inspiration from @ansisbirzniek

Some stellar party inspiration from @ansisbirznieks (1+3), @lainieskitchen (2), and @fiona.hugues and @gatherum.collectif (4) to get you thinking about how to use your garden. Have you tried hosting a party with any recipes from our newsletter or @modfarm ?

Have you seen the new A24 fantasy film “The Gree

Have you seen the new A24 fantasy film “The Green Knight?” Based on an old knightly poem from the 14th century, we couldn’t help but see that David Lowery adapted the film for modern audiences and their perceptions of greenery and gardening. Recognize anything new?

#thegreenknight

We are fickle beings: we can only direct our atten

We are fickle beings: we can only direct our attention at a task for so long before we tend to become irritable, distracted, and error-prone. That’s where gardening can jump in to help. Experts have argued that “attention fatigue” we can feel ourselves slump into can be improved "involuntary attention” - the kind of systems feeling and thinking that can shock us back into recognizing that we’re part of nature as we feel the morning dew on garden leaves, the breeze passing through and clouds overhead, and the multisensory experience of smelling and tasting the foods we helped grow. When in the day do you feel fatigued? Can you get outdoors for just 30 minutes then and get gardening?

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This week the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate C

This week the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report was release, and its findings were striking. What do you think of the 2021 IPCC report, especially as it relates to food? We have a link in our bio to a great write-up some of the ag/food-centered aspects of predicted and upcoming changes. To us, this was another terrifying study of why we need drastic climate action and strong communities: a lot of disaster is baked-in according to new findings. Caring for your land, neighbors, and food will be only more important now. That is why we garden: to develop a better world through the land we tend and the people we gift healthy food to. Who will you invite to join our Movement?

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Thank you all for entering to win our #ultimategar

Thank you all for entering to win our #ultimategardenparty contest! Our judges are close to picking the winner to receive the grand prize from our team and @gardenuity , as well as the runners-up: it’s hard with so many great stories to tell and community heroes to nominate. But don’t forget, you never need an excuse to host a great garden party! Your harvest, your weather, and your community can be catalysts enough to spark something memorable and delicious. Stay tuned for more garden party news, but until then we’ll leave you with a few photos we’ve selected from our ultimate garden party moodboard. Any of these possible in your garden?

Photo credit:
1: @simplytroy @azizstudios
2: @chef_from_thewoods
3: @30minutefoodie

How is tomato season looking in your community? Ar

How is tomato season looking in your community? Are you team cherry or beefsteak? Pan-roasted, pickled, or raw? Let us know what you're cooking and what you recommend the rest of us do with all the tomatoes we're harvesting from our gardens! Our last 2 newsletters had great recipes from double gazpacho to tomato salad with basil oil, sign up at the link in bio so you don't miss our next tomato recipe. Happy #heirloomtomatoes August gardeners!

A challenge from @sirilorece to all those who ente

A challenge from @sirilorece to all those who enter a garden 💚🥬💚! We could not agree more. Our conversation with musician, yoga instructor, urban farmer, and sustainability educator was as full of joy and intersectionality as it could be: it was a real treat to interview her and to be able to share our conversation with our #MillionGardens Movement members! Click the link in bio or visit the link below to read our whole conversation about gardening, yoga, music, climate, and more. Have you spent 30 minutes in a garden this weekend? Do you feel unchanged?

milliongardensmovement.org/siri/

Thank you to all who came to our Roaring Fork Vall

Thank you to all who came to our Roaring Fork Valley garden giveaway in Colorado this time last week: we could not have asked for a more enthusiastic crowd of volunteers and new members to the #MillionGardens Movement. It was especially amazing to see kids get ownership of some of the first gardens they can tend and harvest, whether that's rich with greens, potatoes, or Thai basil. We each might feel small, but we're part of the million that will change the world! We can't wait to do this again, thanks to your donations and support of our Movement. All photos by Hal Williams.

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Have you entered to win our #ultimategardenparty contest? Today’s the FINAL DAY! We’ve heard of fundraising leaders who make cinnamon buns on the side, a single mom who designed facemasks for free, and safety coordinators who help schoolkids and dance a great salsa dance, to name just a few. There are so many great submissions, but only one can win our Ultimate Garden Party contest! Our submissions close at midnight, so get those party ideas and nominations in while you can (scroll for some party inspiration, creators tagged in the posts). The winner receives a taco toppings kit and a cocktail garden kit from @gardenuity and gets to gift a garden party valued up to $5,000 to a hero in their community. Submit at our link in bio or milliongardensmovement.org/garden-party

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