As we do each year, I (Charlie) just recently drove up and down the east coast of Australia on a Walkabout Permaculture trip: a journey, wandering with intention, between people and projects along the north shores of Sydney. These explorations are essential to keeping in touch with friends, places and projects - some projects that we've designed and helped to create in the past. 

Wandering betwee...

Bridget, Charlie and the Garden Juju Collective and Gateway Farm staff, we’re all passionate, engaged, concerned and conscientious. Maybe you'd call us Eco-Geeks. ‘Look at that tree. How has it been pruned?’ ‘Oh what food are they eating at that stall?’ ‘Looks like it rains here a lot.’ ‘Wow, that plant must be a weed here in this place, growing in that roadside weedscape...’ etc. And that’s just ...

About this time of year many of us celebrate St. Valentine's Day rituals of Love through cards, gifts, chocolates, dates and more. We might also ask the perennial question, what even is ‘Love’? Readers might wonder: what does Love have to do with the kinds of things we do at Garden Juju Collective? In the background we could listen to 1993 hits “What is Love?” by Haddaway and Tina Turner’s “What’s...

It's not easy to really describe the last 18 months' process of finding new, aligned investors for Gateway Farm, Plymouth, Michigan. It's been exhausting, nerve-wracking, frustrating, exhilarating and more. A real roller coaster of ups and downs. When this is fully in place and new systems and people are fully integrated, everyone involved will have achieved something truly exceptional. More on th...

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...