28/12/2023
By sheer good luck, my passion for plants, my own little personal, guilty pleasure, is a way to change the world.
Gardeners have impact. Just by planting a single plant, we are caring for the earth; we are adding biodiversity, we are adding life, we are adding beauty. Every small act we do adds resiliency.
Most of my gardening friends do it for the sheer joy of working with nature. Maybe we want to share our bounty, our cuttings and flowers, our knowledge, but we don’t want to think of our own gardens as solutions, we don’t want to make a statement, we just want to be among the plants we love and the people who share that with us.
Now, as I leave the board of Pacific Horticulture, I feel compelled to promote the good work of regional gardening and leave the organization as healthy as possible. We have done great work in the past few years transitioning to online digital media, and as we are about to create a pay-wall to pay for this, I blatantly ask for your support.
When we are not gardening, when we are listening to the news or reading about the impending climate catastrophe and how it will will wreck havoc on human communities, we DO want to contribute solutions, we DO want people to understand there is hope through gardening, green infrastructure, and working with plants.
Let Pacific Horticulture give you voice to support regional solutions so you don’t have to stand on a soapbox, so you don’t have to dig up and pass along all the research that’s proving we can make a difference. Help Pac Hort disseminate that information and promote hope. It will make you feel good knowing someone is promoting the optimism that is gardening. And I certainly hope you are a member and already benefiting from that yourself.
So, in these last few days of the year with many of us making charitable contributions and looking for hope in the New Year please consider making a donation to Pacific Horticulture or becoming a member. In my final act as a Board member I will match any donation, or the $50 membership (up to $1000 total). If you are not already a member it will allow you to access to all the content going forward.
On the donation form, there is a box for comments. Please put Saxon's Match. If your contribution is the form of a $50 membership, which is an entirely different accounting in the system (and different link than donations link here), please message me so that I can match.
https://pacifichorticulture.org/support/
Grace and gratitude are part of being human. Support Pacific Horticulture, we may not have all the answers, but we are certainly looking for them; help us make everyone have a better future.
Thank you *all* for reading this. Happy New Year !!
Gardens matter. Every small act we do adds resiliency
