Let's Grow the Family: Invite Your Friends to Read The Classical Roots Substack

Announcing our new referral rewards!

Hello, friends! Thank you for reading The Classical Roots Substack — your support allows me to keep doing this work.

Why is this work valuable? Because gardening, ecology, and embodied experiences can and should have an important place in our schools. Because this community of readers is a joyful, wise group of people who are expanding their gardening knowledge, soothing the mental health crisis, and creating beauty. Because more people need to hear about this, and more schools need to start doing it.

Over the years, I’ve written more than eight full curriculums and developed a wealth of educational materials for this school. I now want to use some of those resource-development skills to help inform and empower other schools, institutions, and communities to start programs like Classical Roots.

I also want to continue giving useful, consolidated garden advice to anyone interested in the hobby, and to do high-quality nature writing that’s inspired by my experiences here and abroad.

I have some plans about how to refine my process and work toward all of these goals together, right here on Substack. More on that subject soon.

In the meantime, if you enjoy The Classical Roots Substack and support what we’re doing with this program, it would mean the world to me if you invited friends to subscribe and read with us. If you refer friends, you will receive benefits that give you special access to an archive of knowledge I produced especially to reward referrals.

How to participate

1. Share The Classical Roots Substack. When you use the referral link below, or the “Share” button on any post, you'll get credit for any new subscribers. Simply send the link in a text, email, or share it on social media with friends.

2. Earn benefits. When more friends use your referral link to subscribe, you’ll receive special benefits.

• Get the Starting a School Garden PDF for 5 referrals
  This is an expanded PDF of my Ten-Part “How to Start List,” originally published as two separate posts. This version collects all of that advice and expands it, adding guiding questions after each entry to help inspire you. If you’re an educator, colleague, administrator, or amateur gardener who has dreamed of starting a garden or gardening program of any kind, this list is for you.

• Get my Top Gardening Tips for 10 referrals
  This eleven-page document is a labor of love that consolidates years of conversations, trial-and-error, and experience into something I feel confident will sharpen and inspire you no matter where, how, or why you garden. I should probably be selling it, but I’m giving it away instead, because I like you.

• Get my At-Home Composting Guide for 25 referrals
  This is a revised and expanded PDF of my At-Home Composting Guide, originally published as an article, but now ripened to a refined perfection. Composting is one of the things I’m always asked about, and this guide will give you everything you need to start reducing waste and reaping the reward of sweet soil and even sweeter satisfaction.
  
  I plan to expand these benefits by adding more rewards in the future but, for now, have at it! I’ve worked hard to ensure that these resources will be a true benefit to those who support us. Thanks for being a part of the family!

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