Growing for your community is not some new hippie trend — though in cities like Pittsburgh, local activists are planting urban gardens at open lots, along sidewalks and on rooftops for the taking. Offering our bounty to our neighbors helps us all survive. If my neighbor is hungry, they can’t look out for anyone but themselves.
But the real reasons I am creating a little free garden in my front yard is to make an offering to the Earth. When I tend to my garden, I am not just feeding people, but also the countless species that rely on this land to survive. The flock of sparrows and crows that peck at the dirt each morning. The hummingbirds, butterflies, bees, and worms. The cats and rats and possums and skunks that arrive every so often. This was their home first. I respect that, so I plant more so we are all nourished. In doing this, I celebrate and honor what nature can offer. And, I build community in the process.
Yesterday while I was planting chamomile and valerian, the chaplain and horticulturist came by. The chaplain whistled, “Looks good.” She cocked her head toward her lawn. “Maybe I’ll start a garden too in my front yard.”
The horticulturist nodded and said, “I’m doing my neighbor’s garden. I’m going to put in a bunch of flowers to bring in pollinators for all this food.”

This week’s challenge
Friends, this week, I ask you to simply plant something in a public place that will become food. This can be a container on your stoop, a pumpkin seed in an abandoned lot, some mint in a patch of dirt. Share what you have with more than just your clan. Plant a seed and let it grow for someone else.
Michele Bigley is an award-winning writer with bylines in the New York Times, Afar, Outside, Hidden Compass, Los Angeles Times and many more. She is writing a book about how taking her sons to meet people stewarding fragile ecosystems taught them how to nurture their community. This piece was originally published in her newsletter Our Feet on the Ground. Follow her adventures here.

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