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...

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 ...

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 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 contractors, implement designs, and once established (no small feat), set them up for success into th...