Online Class: Gardening for the Future
Enrollment is now OPEN for 2026 Online Gardening for the Future Class:
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What are the concrete skills needed to grow food in the face of climate change? How do we build a resilient community while growing food for the future?
We are living in rapidly changing times. This year, we saw SNAP benefits withheld and people go hungry, while farmers struggled to sell their crops. Fires and floods tore through communities while federal supports halted, leaving soils contaminated and supply chains disrupted. Now more than ever, we must remember how to take care of each other and the land while growing healthy, life-giving food.
Societal forces seek to separate and divide us. And yet, the earth offers itself as a source of nourishment through it all. How can we learn to work with the earth in the face of all this change? How can we grow food in ways that help build resilient communities?
This online class will meet online on Zoom on Tuesday evenings from 6:30pm- 8:30pm EST on February 17th, February 24th, March 3rd, and March 10th and guides you through the visioning, crop planning, and seed ordering while supporting you to develop a local community project. Projects might be: creating a neighborhood PYO garden, growing food for an end of summer potluck, or growing and processing medicinal herbs to distribute for a local mutual aid organization. Readings and other educational opportunities will be provided in-between classes.
Each of the topics below will be explored through the lens of climate and social resilience. This course will deepen one’s connection to the natural world through a scientific, social, spiritual, emotional, and creative lens. There will be space to share knowledge participants bring to the topics, as well as ask questions specific to your gardening projects and interests.
You do not need to be a gardener, or even have a garden to participate!
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General Course Overview:
Click here to read a more in-depth description of the content of each course. Each of these topics will be taught through a lens of climate and social resilience. The general overview is as follows:
Class 1- Course Overview, Introductions, and Visioning
Class 2- Crop Plan and Project Design
Class 3- Seed Ordering, Seed Saving, and Seed Story Swap
Class 4- Project Presentations and End of Class Celebration
Testimonials
“Rose's teaching style is curious, kind, intimate, collaborative, inspired, loving, and generous. They invite us into a beautiful balance by offering their own experience and knowledge while encouraging us to explore, imagine, and share what we have cultivated from our own lived experience, with or without gardening”. - 2025 Gardening for the Future Participant
“The class is experiential, deeply knowledgeable, and encouraging”. - 2025 Gardening for the Future Participant
“Gardening for the Future invites you to slow down and create space for those moments that you feel are hard to access and hard to hold during a busy week. There is space to reflect, ask all your questions, and contribute your experience and knowledge in a way that will spark further discussion and generate interest…. Rose holds space in a way that fosters curiosity, encourages further exploration and investigation which are all critical to continuing to build a knowledge base”. - 2024 Gardening for the Future Participant
“The class is hands-on, kind, with some tailored instruction, with lots of space to slow down to the pace of the earth and plants”. - 2024 Gardening for the Future Participant
“Rose is in my mind the best kind of teacher, as they have deep experience and knowledge while also being a student themselves. They are generous and kind and serve as a kind of mentor or guide in meeting the students where they are”. - 2023 Gardening for the Future Participant
2026 Class Schedule
This online class will meet online on Zoom on Tuesday evenings from 6:30pm- 8:30pm EST on February 17th, February 24th, March 3rd, and March 10th.
Course Fees
The baseline cost for this course is $245.
In order to register, you must either pay the whole cost or a $125 deposit to hold your place. Starting one week before the class begins, refunds will no longer be able to be accepted. This includes people who have signed up for payment plans. However, if you find yourself unable to make the classes for any reason, you are always welcome to find someone who can go in your place.
If Rose becomes unable to teach any given class, a knowledgeable alumni of the course will teach in their place.
10% of all course fees will be given as a land tax to Pequoig Farm. (You can learn more about the concept of a land tax from the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust here).
If this price level is inaccessible to you for any reason, simply email Rose at gardening4thefuture@gmail.com to figure out a payment plan or reduced rate that works for you.
If you have access to more resources and want to contribute more to subsidize those who can afford to pay less, you can indicate that in your registration form as well.
This year, we are offering a $45 discount if you sign up with a friend! Every participant will be developing a garden-related project. If you sign up with someone who wants to work on your project with you, you will each receive $45 off the registration fee.
Access notes
All classes will take place on Zoom. If you have any specific access needs around zoom meetings, please reach out to Rose at gardening4thefuture@gmail.com and we will make sure you are able to participate!
We will begin each class with some time connecting to the land, and you can expect a check-in each class about how everyone’s projects are going, discussion from readings sent out between classes, as well as hands on activities and observation throughout. There will always be plenty of time for questions and for participants to share the knowledge they are bringing. Reach out to Rose at gardening4thefuture@gmail.com with any other access questions and/or needs.