When I started my verge garden, my reason was simple. I was fed up with mowing it. Back then, I had no idea where it would lead me.
Now I think verge gardens could be the key to saving us from the worst of climate change and biodiversity loss. Big claim for unimportant little bits of land, you might say. Come on the journey and see if you change your mind.
The Shady Lanes Project is about a lot more than us all planting out our little patches. It’s about bringing diverse people together to learn how to collaborate by doing. It’s about changing the way we see nature and our place on this planet. It’s about eco-systems thinking.
Most of all, it’s about learning by doing the doable - and making what’s doable grow.
Free subscriptions
This level will get you a newsletter and free articles on many aspects of verge gardening and why we need native verge gardens supporting street trees to help cool our cities and increase biodiversity.
The Understanding the Space section is a set of articles designed to give you the basics on how to create a trouble-free verge garden and avoid disputes with neighbours and councils.
Like the book, Garden on the Verge: A New Approach, it is all beginner verge gardeners need, and you might want to stop there.
Paid subscriptions
Paid subscriptions are for people who want to move beyond doing their own garden and develop group projects to build group membership and raise your profile in the community.
On the way, you’ll develop a lot of skills needed for advocacy, leverage, and collaborations. You get to join in the Q&A, discussion threads, and zooms to discuss issues with your project and to share ideas.
You’ll also get a preview of the next book. If you’re keen, you can help make the book as useful as it can be by requesting to be a beta-reader.
You need paid membership to see some of the content and participate in the Group Section.
Annual Plus Subscriptions
These are by prior arrangement only. This is for change-makers who want to form innovative, cross-sector collaborations that tackle social, economic, and environmental issues for even greater scale and impact. This builds on the skills and resources you’ve developed doing a group project.
Whichever you choose, your support, referrals, shares, and subscriptions help support my work creating this site and fostering projects in our communities.
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