Raise a Garden And A Ruckus

"gathered in the spirit of friends sitting around a bonfire. .. we marked the winter solstice together. Listen to our lively conversation and hear us share a bit about the future of Plant Baby Plant. Robin even gives a botany lesson…"

Robin Wall Kimmerer hosted the first new Plant Circle of the "Plant, Baby, Plant" movement for the Solstice at the end of 2025.

Key contributers were Dr. Gary Paul Nabhan, author and restoration ecologist, and Sabestine Hernandez, educator and enrolled member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe.

You can watch again, with subtitles and transcript, here:



"Plant Baby Plant is a new grassroots movement led by Robin Wall Kimmerer that invites people to reimagine our shared future through acts of care for the living world."

https://plantbabyplant.com/

I was wondering, was anyone reading, part of this Plant Circle in synchronus time?  I am watching the recording on YouTube, having only caught the end of the live stream.

They start by inviting in anyone who wants to be involved in a grassroots network to take meaningful action to heal land, build community and grow empowerment in support of our living planet. Also people who have been moved by Robin Wall Kimmerer's work can find support to put those values into a living practice, too.

In other words, they are growing a community of like-minded people.

They chose the Northern Winter Solstice to mirror the returning of the light, although people from the Southern Summer Solstice also joined!

Storytelling is at the heart of their work, too, as a vital tool to bring strategy to life.  They hold up stories to invite people into the emotional space where we feel the beauty, urgency and hope of this community-building and life-bringing work.

A communication mode they will continue to embrace are these online Plant Circles, which grew as nourishing companionship during COVID-19 lockdown.

So they are now widening these Circles for the benefit of all, uniting around a shared love of plant life.