Loading Events

Growing Hope: The Local and Global Youth Garden Movement

8:00 am - 5:00 pm
January 25

Join Growing Hope to learn about this growing local and global movement, and to hear inspiring stories about how young people are caring for the land.

Learn More and Buy Tickets Here

About the Presentation: In school and youth gardens throughout Madison, and around the world, young people are growing connections to food, nature, and community. Join us to learn about this growing local and global movement, and to hear inspiring stories about how young people are caring for the land while building enduring bonds with the plants and animals they tend in the garden.

Speaker: Nathan Larson, Planning and Landscape Architecture Department, UW Madison

Bio: Nathan’s work spans issues that address health equity, nature and garden-based education, food systems and climate action. He is a member of UW’s Planning and Landscape Architecture Department and currently directs the statewide Cultivate Health Initiative, which grows and sustains the school garden network in Wisconsin. He also serves on the Madison Metropolitan School District Wellness Advisory Council and the national School Garden Support Organization Network Governance Board.

This event is jointly sponsored by the Madison Area Master Gardener Association.

**Please note that this is a virtual event. Zoom links will be sent to the email you used to register for the event 2 days, 2 hours, and 10 minutes before the event begins. You may need to check your spam folder.**

November 2026
Nov 03
03 November 2026
Trinity Church,
2nd Street
Ashland,, OR 97520 United States
Every Tuesday, Peace House hosts a free community meal downtown Ashland.
Free
Nov 03
03 November 2026
Alba Park,
301 W. Main St.
Medford, OR
Doomscrolling at home on your phone on Election Day? Not fun. Hot chocolate, crisp fall weather, good company, and a chance to start facing what's next together, as the results come in? We say yes. And we hope you'll join us! Peace House and other pro-democracy friends in the Rogue...
Nov 05
05 November 2026
Peace House,
An hour of silence to focus on what brings Peace and Love into the world. Individually and collectively. Some have used the time to do art, play music, knit or even read.
Free