SOLSTICE SEASON: ABUNDANCE & CONNECTION, DR. DON HANKINS
- Jennifer Jewell
- 17 hours ago
- 3 min read
In honor of the Winter Solstice happening this coming weekend on December 21st at 10:03 AM Pacific, we celebrate land and place-based cultivation from a foundation of cultural and spiritual care leading the way. We’re joined in this by Dr. Don Hankins, Professor of Geography and Planning at California State University, Chico.
Of Miwok ancestry, Don, for decades now, has focused on applied research of indigenous stewardship practices as a “keystone process to aid in conservation and management of resources”, particularly around the cultural use of fire and and conservation of water. Don has been involved in land management and conservation local organizations and agencies as well as federal and tribal governments.
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Hey, it's Jennifer—
Everything that Don shares with me in this conversation is a deep reminder of the definition I hold in my work and my heart as what and who a Big G Gardener is: someone who tends to plants in their place with the best interest of all three in mind: the person, the plants, the place. When we keep their mutual best interests in mind, we make better, more informed cultivations.
The Solstice is the planetary new year, the Garden’s natural New Year, moving us in the next direction, slowly, gently, determinedly. Happy planetary new year in your next circle around the sun on this generous planet.
In the Northern Hemisphere, The nights are long and dark, probably cold, the days are short and cool. But never forget there is always life on life on life at work in the soil, in the solar system, We are but small, and important, parts.
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