On Precarity, Community, and the Work of Keeping Good Places Alive

This year at Garden Juju Collective we are working with the theme of Remakings. Not just remaking landscapes and food systems, but remaking whole projects themselves. Even the best regenerative projects often become precarious. We need to do all we can to keep them alive. 

Over the past 18 months, Gateway Farm in Plymouth, Mich...

Like the changing season, the Harvest Loom began as something small and grew in ways we couldn’t predict. A spark of inspiration, some branches, and a shared vision—what started as a nature craft idea for children transformed into a large-scale, living art installation that wove together memory, intention, and collective care.

Installed at Gateway Farm Hub in Plymouth, MI, USA, during the shift f...

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 perfection. It’s about showing up, doing the work, and trusting that your presence and effort have made a me...

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 skills, share knowledge, and strengthen resilience across the region. This year’s theme—Incubate & Integ...

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 was more than a presentation—it was a moment to ground ourselves in the deeper why of our work and ...

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 repair in response to widespread damage to the environment. Whilst many people around the world have hea...

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 study, a therapeutic technique and a set of ideas that studies and works toward healing the interrelati...

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. But the deeper journey of change—the one that happens in real life—is rarely linear. It’s layered, unp...

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 alternative therapies, plus community profiles, news, and events related to Southeastern Michigan's vib...

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 expansion of water means water expands when cooled from 4°C to 0°C. This means ice insulates the wat...

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 than seen and there’s contention on the best way to spell ‘Tzush’...you’ll see many options here.

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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 do, it is incredibly empowering!

Today seems so full of disaster and crises, both global and perso...