Crystal clear at the end of his career as founder/CEO of “Resolution Gardens", Randy Jewart, talks about his journey from gymnast to academic, artist to activist, and community builder to urban farmer. He shares wisdoms and truths on the rewards of "getting outside and doing some work together," reflections on the challenges of expanding the local food paradigm, and his best idea for global positive change. In Randy's 20+ years based in Austin, TX, he created numerous communities and community events connecting art, ecological literacy, local food, social justice, people in recovery, and more. Randy also shares his feelings about the wonders of a 4x4 foot garden and the breakthrough of establishing non-performance-based self-esteem. A positive energy generator and "all around Bodhisattva," Randy inspires. Jared sums this one up: "We have to become gardeners of all life."
About Randy
Randy Jewart is founder/director of Austin Green Art, founder/ceo of Resolution Gardens, and co-founder of The GIFT (Grow Inspire Feed Teach). Visit The GIFT on Facebook and Instagram.
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"When you think of soil — a good handful of soil supposedly has more creatures than there are stars in the universe. In one 4x4 foot garden you have 1,000 lbs of soil."
“How does the opportunity to create an urban food system that’s sustainable and healthy connect to these other social challenges? You can start to pile-up a lot of potential.”
“Of course we have to use language to communicate with each other and talk about what we’re doing. But our language is so limited compared to what it is that we’re trying to describe, these living things we should be in relation with."
"Food and food production connects to this idea of core health: individual, family, and social, that also includes your mental health, your spiritual health, your economic stability. And so, can food be a surprising piece of some other kinds of programs that help people to be healthy and help the community be healthy? There’s lots of great examples."
"The last few months, I’ve been focusing on my need to care for myself."
"Do you love and honor and take care of yourself, whether you perform or not? You have a responsibility, if you want to be a healthy person, to connect with that aspect of yourself that doesn’t have to perform."
“What the turnip does is a gift. It doesn’t own a character or skills or abilities, it’s living through what it is to provide abundance. All of these living processes, they come back to this word 'love,' the feeling that you get to when you really understand it right. That should be the way we talk to each other.”
"You don't have to build a barn, you can build a little garden, or move a chicken coop. When you have that time together, there's time to talk personally and share some things."
"A healthy economy requires constant circulation — it's a living system just like our bloodstream, or the nutrient cycle of a good functioning farm or biosphere... My hope is that there's a potential technical innovati
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