Keynote: Designing Healthy Future Farms adapt adapt design deck community community engagement design ecological systems ecopsychology events farm farmer wellness gateway farm keynote literacies and practices permaculture re-wilding regenerative agriculture self-care sustainability workshops Aug 28, 2025

Last week we were honored to deliver the keynote "Designing Healthy Future Farms" at the Northern Michigan Small Farm Conference in Glen Arbor, MI, USA, run by Crosshatch Center for Art & Ecology.

Now in its 26th year, this gathering brings together farmers, growers, and land stewards to build skil...

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Keynote: Regeneration Through Permaculture, Re-wilding & Community Engagement community engagement ecological systems ecopsychology events farm farmer wellness gateway farm keynote literacies and practices permaculture polyculture re-wilding regenerative agriculture sustainability Aug 06, 2025

Earlier this year, we were honored to deliver the keynote at the 77th Annual Celebration of the Washtenaw County Conservation District—an evening rooted in community, conservation, and care. We’re now excited to share the full recording along with reflections and resources from the event.

This talk...

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The Principles of Bush Regeneration for Rainforests - and Also the Practice of Life bush regeneration counterculture design ecological systems empowerment etymology literacies and practices mid-year reflections rainforest re-wilding resilience self-care tools & tricks Jul 24, 2025

In the world of land regeneration, Australia is famous for permaculture, as coined by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, but the practice of bush regeneration began to emerge around the same time. Both rooted in the 1970s counterculture, they outlined radically innovative practices of ecological repa...

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Sanctuary and Ecopsychology ecopsychology emotions empowerment etymology events horticultural therapy literacies and practices more-than-human resilience workshops Jul 19, 2025

Yes, there's such a thing as Ecopsychology!

Just as we have relearnt to be ecological beings (existing in a web of relationships to plants, animals, environment, and energy flow)...we can also remember and relearn that we are just as equally ecopsychological beings.

Ecopsychology is a field of stu...

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Mid-Year Momentum: Tend the Growing Edge with 'Adapt' adapt adapt design deck community design mid-year reflections permaculture radical redesign resilience resolutions wholistic design process Jun 07, 2025

A gentle invitation to reflect, realign, and re-engage with your commitments through creative design.

 

As we approach the halfway point of 2025, (or any year) it's a powerful moment to pause—not just to look back, but to look inward.

January often arrives with fresh goals and bold intentions. Bu...

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Crazy Wisdom Connections adapt community ecological systems events farm garden indigenous peoples' skills literacies and practices local businesses permaculture permaculture design course sustainability wholistic design process workshops May 22, 2025

Crazy Wisdom in Ann Arbor, MI, USA, describes itself as a "bookstore about consciousness." Through the store, its publications, and community events, Crazy Wisdom serves as a regional resource for information on "mindfulness, healthy living, spiritual growth, psychology, conscious parenting, and alt...

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Water: The Practical & The Magical biodynamics counterculture design ecological systems ecotones emotions empowerment erosion events flood indigenous peoples' culture magic permaculture science water workshops May 01, 2025

We are in awe of water.

 

Did you know these amazing scientific facts about water?

  • Some of the water on planet Earth originally comes from meteors and arguably also from comets!
  • 97% of all water on earth is in the seas 
  • 68% of freshwater is in the form of ice in the polar ice caps
  • Anomalous ...
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The Power of 'Zhuzhing' 'zhuzing' etymology garden horticultural therapy literacies and practices living mosaics tools & tricks Mar 06, 2025

In this newsletter we are playfully exploring something we do a lot; but it’s rarely written and it’s actually pretty hard to define. The Cambridge Dictionary spells it ‘Zhuzh’, An article in The New York Times references early usage as ‘Zhoosh’. ‘Tzushing’ is a word that you’ve likely heard more th...

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Radical Redesign adapt counterculture empowerment indigenous peoples' skills radical redesign resilience tools & tricks wholistic design process Feb 26, 2025

WE NEED RADICAL REDESIGN.

This is not the time to ‘snap back to normal’, whatever ‘normal’ is anyway. Through our various teachings, workshops, and consultations it has become clear that many people have not yet realised the deep potential of redesigning in places, spaces and communities. When they...

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The Magical Skilled Craft of Gardeners design ecological systems farm garden indigenous peoples' skills literacies and practices living mosaics more-than-human polyculture sacred places sustainability Jan 31, 2025

We at Garden Juju Collective work with all things gardens, farms and everything associated with how to make these successful, sustainable, beautiful, abundant, profitable, healing and just. We make recommendations, support design processes, appraise places and projects, help assemble teams, employ c...

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