Seeds Of Betterment

A group of scouts helping in the community garden.

Take a look at a tiny seed. It's hard to imagine that that little entity can become something bigger. Now, look at the biggest trees around, the great Sequoias. It's hard to imagine but each one of those trees had a beginning as a tiny seed.

Ideas also can start tiny, as tiny as seeds. Given enough nourishment, in the form of energy and commitment and those ideas can grow into a movement and change a neighborhood, a community, a city, and all the way up.



In Miami/Dade, FL, you'll find a group of committed individuals, who became a group. On Earth Day in 2012, Erika Hallquist got together with Marsha Pastrana and Dezirae Aim, with some seeds and a garden. The garden eventually turned into the ALLOVE TREE COMMUNITY GARDEN AT CUTLER RIDGE PARK, the main project of ALLOVE TREE. But it's more than just a garden; it brings a neighborhood community together to cultivate and grow, honoring the cycles of nature.

Because that one garden in one neighborhood is part of a larger community, those who participate are affected by, and also affect, the world around them. Just making a small change can cause a bump in the energy that surrounds it. So, there is a spirituality that surrounds the activities involved with this community garden.

For one thing, free yoga classes are offered and children participate; there is also meditation, in the venue of the garden. And so the effects of this community garden spread, into greater health for the participants, into sustainability and ecological knowledge, encompassing the surrounding classrooms and scouting troops. It's the essence of community - it's small, but it's so much more.

Free yoga class.

Thanks to this article from the Pollination Project: https://thepollinationproject.org/grants-awarded/erika-hallquist-allove-tree-2/, and the above links.

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