The new website, WorldFoodGarden.org is kind of like the Facebook of food gardens. It is a free infrastructure that provides users with profiles and networking tools all centered around one aim: empowering each other to grow sustainable food gardens. On the home page of the site is the world’s first map of small food gardens- a world map sputtered with cartoon carrots representing gardens around the world and linking to those gardens’ larger profiles. Once a gardener makes a profile they can then begin to grow their garden network, and in a sense, grow the World Food Garden. By inviting friends into their network, potential new gardeners might become inspired to get started gardening (using the how-to tutorials on the site), and seed trades might occur between gardeners, expanding the diversity in gardens across the land. (Diversity is the key to stability in the garden.)
There are many types of growers already on the world map of small food gardens- rooftop growers, container growers, hydroponic growers, biointensive growers, 1st time growers, seasoned growers, if you can name it, it is likely a part of the world food garden already. The cartoon carrots are also color coded for personal gardens, community gardens, small farms and school gardens! The powerful movement of college students across the US, and other countries, to demand sustainable food in their college cafeterias and to start organic gardens on their college campuses is a great inspiration for the coming age. We at WorldFoodGarden.org hope this next age will be called the “Garden Age.”
The WorldFoodGarden.org site is a free tool that students can use to add their college’s 
(and personal) garden profile to the map, learn from other college (and personal) garden profiles, and connect and grow their own networks with the networks of other college gardens to help build the movement towards sustainability. Whether you grow one plant and invite 50 friends into your network or you run a small farm and have a network of two, is up to each of us to grow a small part of the World Food Garden to create a sustainable world. As a favorite internet friend of mine once said “Together We Have Everything.” And as college students, you are leading the way. Please add your gardens or “virtual gardens” (if you dont have your own garden yet) to WorldFoodGarden.org, build your networks, and help to grow a greener earth!
Let the Garden Age Begin,
Eve Sibley
WorldFoodGarden.org
