Andrew Justus-Fritz

Through the Placer County Community Garden Network, the community garden leaders’ tours created space for reflection, sharing, storytelling, and place-based learning. As part of my role at Placer RCD, I created the Network and facilitated these intentional gatherings to not only learn from the leaders themselves, but to help leaders learn and support one another—and this often led to incredible vulnerability in their successes and challenges. Because this article was written with an audience of other community garden networks around the country, I shared the undergriding framework of the meetings which used Kolb’s experiential learning cycle (framing, experience, reflection) supported by an Integral Theory understanding.