CP HOST NEW YEAR'S ROUND UP!
- Jennifer Jewell
- 4 hours ago
- 4 min read
In honor of the new year fresh-faced and open-hearted in front of us, Ben Futa, Abra Lee and I together this week for a first-ever check in as we review 2025 and look forward to all that we will grow together in 2026.\
Including now being on the airwaves on the Western Slope of Colorado on KVNF Community Radio for their winter months! So glad to meet all you Western Slope Gardeners!
Happy Holidays!
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Thinking out loud this week...
Hey CP-ers, HAPPY NEW YEAR!
This round-table conversation is just one of the reflections on all that we have grown, and like all that we do it is as much about what it means to be a Gardener as it is about Gardening; is as much about growing ourselves and our world as it is about growing veg, fruit, flowers, or habitat.
After 10 years as CP, and 26 years observing, thinking about, writing about, and interviewing gardeners about gardens, this is what I have found to be key: the nature of the Gardener is what will determine the nature of our world – in myriad ways. And when we get it right, we as Gardeners grow everything together better: plants, people, places, environments, economies, cultures, and spirits. We are keystones, holding so much more than you realize together.
I loved how all of us, Ben, Abra, and I, all found the CP Communing community gathering events to be real highs for us in 2025. And with that, we have set the times and dates for ALL FOUR CP COMMUNINGS in 2026. Please make sure to check out the CP events Calendar to mark YOUR Calendars to come together around the Equinox and Solstices of these next seasons. March, June, September 2026. SEE YOU there.
Finally, I have had so many very moving and meaningful notes from you all this holiday season. I read every one, I save every one, I thank you for every one. I wanted to share this one with you – from Lilian. Now a longtime listener:
"Dear Jennifer & CP Team,
I wanted to take a moment to thank you for the journey you have opened up to me. When I first started listening to you on the radio, I wondered why you kept speaking to gardeners, writers, artists, etc. all over the world. Why weren’t you focused on Northern California, on actual Gardening? How short-sighted I was, and how much I appreciated the voices you have introduced me to.
This year, the introductions have been multiplied with the addition of Abra and Ben. Once again, at first, I wondered, Why? And yet each week the answer came loud and clear, to hear a new voice, to hear a new perspective, to broaden my world and understanding. A very rich year it has been….CP is part of my life, feeds my soul, piques my curiosity, and inspires me to continue to grow.”
Ahh Lilian. Thank you for seeing us. For listening with us. For being here growing along with us all. It’s what Gardeners do best, GROW.
Happy New Year!
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