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.
For individual gardeners
Free subscription 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.
Groups Section
Paid membership is for people who want to move beyond doing their own garden and run 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.
Paid membership is also for change-makers who want to form cross-sector collaborations that tackle social, economic, and environmental issues for greater scale and impact. This builds on the skills and resources you’ve developed doing a group project. You’ll also get support on using Substack for your project.
You need paid membership to see most content and participate in the Group Section.
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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