Growing Gratitude Stewards
We are responsibly taking charge of ourselves and caring for each other.
We are uniting with our neighbours and enriching our communities.
We are living from a place of love, and beautifying, and expanding our world.
Before you embark on your Growing Gratitude gifting garden, determine if it requires approval.
Projects that go beyond private property boundaries may require permits.
In some areas local governance encourages gardens in the boulevard, and some even provide grants to cover the costs.
Responsibility of Care
Be sure to know what foods you are offering in your gifting garden and label them with stakes or signs. Include when and how to harvest them.
Don’t include inedible plants in the area where there will be harvesting.
Be thorough in instructions if including edible plants that have inedible parts (such as rhubarb leaves, or plum pits.) Here’s a list of common food plants that have inedible parts.
Wildlife
The joy from a Growing Gratitude Gifting Garden is likely to outweigh dealing with wildlife challenges.
Consider that many wild bushes, and even ornamentals in the cities produce food for wild animals. We enjoy them and accept that they attract wildlife.
A Growing Gratitude Gifting Garden might attract additional animal interest, which could be a consideration in your area.
A Gifting Garden can be enclosed if you feel it would make it more secure and less of an attractant
Clean up any fallen fruits and discarded vegetables and securely compost them if you would like to prevent excessive animal interest.
Consider that birds and other animals that inhabit cities with us need to eat quality food too.
Perhaps one day when gardens are everywhere, our cities will be full of abundance, and wild animals will live with less environmental pressures placed on them.
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