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by Sondra Wilson. Last updated 9/10/24.
Gardens Across Iowa! handout – start here
Iowa, renown for our rich, fertile soils, sadly recorded record high food insecurity in 2023. Gardens Across Iowa! represents a coordinated tear-up-the-grassroots effort to quickly and efficiently teach valuable gardening skills that connect people with nature, end community hunger, and reduce waste (because “gardens aren’t wrapped in garbage”). Our goal is to inspire people to get involved with private and community gardens in every town and city across Iowa.
To coordinate this effort, Wild Willpower PAC is currently hiring Iowa State University horticulture students (apply below!) to create data entries for various fruits, vegetables, and herbs for use in fanning out the Gardens Across Iowa! Google Calendar (scroll to spring to view entries, many more to be added soon!), which includes:
Double-planter technique for potatoes:
Cucumber tipi:
Rain gutter-planter hanging strawberries:
Oh my gourd! – what a cool tunnel!!
Help Make this Happen:
The best way to help our development team make the Gardens Across Iowa! Google Calendar and App look and operate in a manner that is hopefully surpasses your expectations (it’s a labor of love) is to donate to Wild Willpower PAC. Business sponsorship opportunities will be available soon! Thank you so much!!
Wild Willpower PAC is hiring – apply today!
We are currently hiring an ISU computer science major (apply below!) to develop the Gardens Across Iowa! Calendar into an app which will enable users to:
One of our goals is to use the free calendar (and the low-cost app) to help coordinate statewide urban gardening and school lunch program that teaches grade school students to manage gardens, with the produce then being used in school lunch programs. This is especially important due to the fact that state officials recently cut off funding for the school lunch program for low income students!
How Gardens Across Iowa! benefits society:
An en mass gardening movement recognizes the inherent flaws in a political system which bases political decisions solely upon economic factors. While the science of economics studies how people make decisions under conditions of scarcity, [1) a community garden movement seeks to alleviate scarcity through creating abundance. When people live more abundantly they are able to spend their money on things they are passionate about instead of mere survival, thus breeding innovation and entrepreneurship. A community gardening movement recognizes that coercing people to live in scarcity is unnecessary and cruel. Our movement seeks to help people thrive instead of merely survive.
Although the Gardens Across Iowa! calendar is still only partially developed, a small group of dedicated students working together can and will help Iowa communities recover from the severe and unnecessary scarce conditions so many are currently living in.
Get Involved!
Horticulture students – apply here:
Your job will be to to create more database entries modeled after the entries currently found in the Gardens Across Iowa! Google Calendar, and to help beautify the entries to make them more aesthetically pleasing. A minimum of three sources must be used in each entry. To apply, send your resume and cover letter to [email protected] with “Gardens Across Iowa!” written in the subject line. If you would like help creating a resume or writing a cover letter, consider booking an appointment with ISU’s Career Services.
Computer science students – apply here:
Your job will be to create the app as specified above, and then to teach our team how to make entries into the app. To apply, send your resume and cover letter to [email protected] with “Gardens Across Iowa!” written in the subject line. If you would like help creating a resume or writing a cover letter, consider booking an appointment with ISU’s Career Services.
Iowa business owners – advertising and sponsorship opportunities:
Premium advertising slots and sponsorship advertising slots will be available throughout the calendar and app. Here’s how this works:
Notice: Terms and prices may change in the future to meet program needs, but we will provide notice and will request and value feedback from our sponsors prior to making any major decisions.
If interested in advertising and/or being listed as a sponsor, please email [email protected] with “Gardens Across Iowa!” written in the subject line.
Gardens About Iowa! is a joint venture paid for by Wild Willpower PAC and Sondra Wilson for Iowa Governor.
Coming Soon:
Wild Willpower PAC will have Homesteading Starter Kits for sale. Instead of buying separate seed packets, then researching how to grow each plant, each of our kits each contain seeds and instructions for at least three different companion plants together.
Benefits of an
En Masse Homesteading Movement:
Why the term homestead? – The term “homestead” is actually a very important common law legal term which prevents a person who is working to live sustainably from having their home foreclosed on.
Thank you to Saboteur365 for this great commemorative graphic we’re using in accordance with Fair Use.
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