There’s a phrase that’s been floating around Garden Juju Collective for a long time. You’ll hear it on job sites, in garden beds, and at the end of a long day at Gateway Farm:

“Better than it was!”

It’s printed on our shirts—partly as a joke, partly as a philosophy. It's not about chasing perfecti...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...