🌱💚 A Heartfelt Thank You to Our Amazing LetsGrow+231 Family! 💚🌱 On this special April 6 anniversary, our hearts are overflowing with gratitude for each and every one of you who continues to support LetsGrow+231 and our Children’s Learning Garden 🌼👩🏾‍🌾👨🏾‍🌾 What started as a simple dream has grown into a beautiful space where children learn, explore, and connect with nature. And none of this would be possible without YOU—our supporters, encouragers, partners, and believers. Because of your kindness: 🌿 Little hands are planting seeds of hope 🌿 Young minds are learning the value of sustainability 🌿 Bright smiles are blooming every single day You are not just supporting a garden—you are nurturing futures, building confidence, and inspiring a generation to grow with purpose 🌍✨ From the bottom of our hearts, THANK YOU for walking this journey with us. Your support means more than words can express, and we are so excited for what lies ahead 🌱💫 Let’s keep growing together 💚🇱🇷 #LetsGrow231 #Gratitude #GrowingFuture

One of the biggest myths people carry when thinking about permaculture is: “I cannot make a difference because I do not have land.” Permaculture was never only about owning acreage. Permaculture begins with how we see and care for ourselves, as well as those around us. Permaculture begins with noticing patterns, reducing waste, stacking purpose, building health, growing what we can, sharing what we have, caring for people and place. Permaculture is simply caring. Caring to grow healthy plants on a porch, in pots, by a doorway, on a patio, or on a balcony. Caring to share our knowledge in a neighbor’s yard, at a school, in a community bed, or in a borrowed space. Caring to shop mindfully, cook from whole foods, compost our scraps, save seed, support a local grower, and help lives grow where we stand. Caring to plant one herb, one flower, one berry bush to provide another place for a pollinator to visit. No land does not mean, no influence. It only means we start with the space, relationships, and resources we have. We can teach children where food comes from, or how natures cycles are beautifully woven. Most Oases do not start big. They start where our feet are. They start with what we are given today. Simply learning, or teaching our family, how to live a little closer to nature. By making one positive step forward, each step stacks along the way. Our health grows. Our confidence grows. Our skill grows. Our community grows. So, if someone says, “I do not have land,” we can gently say: Maybe not yet, but we still have our body, mind, and soul to make mindful choices. We still have community. We still have the ability to build health into life, for us and those around us. The key is small rooted action, repeated over time. Start where you stand today. Grow what you can. Share what you know. That is how barrenness slowly becomes your Oasis.

https://www.skool.com/oasis-builders-8012/classroom/f85f59fa?md=0819ba92b33e4ccda7928568939c2291 I'll be doing a presentation today if interested going through commercial food and the logistics behind how it makes it to the grocery store; giving some food for thought; why we should grow at home or question where did this food come from. Healthy Soil => a Healthy Life Today @ 1pm - 2pm Chicago time Note workshop time: We start at :15 AFTER THE HOUR and run for 55 minutes. Learn how living soil affects plant health, food quality, nutrient density, harvest timing, chemically treated seed, and the gap between field and plate. Jim focuses on soil as the start to a good life. https://www.skool.com/the-art-of-energy-and-strength/about?ref=ddad3ade077a450b800da620ad9499aa

What are your thoughts about how to feed and protect the soil?

Let’s Grow +231 (Mixed Cabbage & Corn Farming) "Welcome to 🇱🇷Let’s Grow +231 — where we turn backyard soil into real food. Here in Liberia, we’re blessed with warm weather, Rain, sunshine, fertile land… everything crops need to grow. Yet somehow, food is still scarce in many communities. Now that's exactly why 🇱🇷LET'S GROW+231 exist to change the low food security mind-set in Liberians especially the youths by showing them real-life actual proves that it can be done and moreover it just starts with only one SEED Today we’re planting a powerful mix: cabbage and corn. Corn grows tall, creating natural shade and wind protection, while cabbage spreads low, making the most of every inch of soil. Two crops, one space, more food. This is how small gardens become food security. Imagine if every backyard, every empty lot, every small farm planted something. Fresh vegetables wouldn’t be rare — they’d be everywhere. At Let’s Grow +231, we believe the solution is already in our hands… and in our soil. Plant more. Grow more. Feed Liberia. Let’s Grow +231." 🌱🌽🥬 🇱🇷WE DON’T ONLY GROW FOOD🫘🥦🍆🐓 WE GROW MINDS🙎🏿‍♀️🙍🏿