Rick Burnette
2022 – Challenges Aplenty, Blessings Abundant
In food insecure communities every year is a challenge. Long-term barriers to adequate food access don't happen by accident. This is...
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Rick Burnette
- Apr 12, 2022
- 4 min
Good Trouble Gardening
"Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year,...
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Rick Burnette
- Feb 17, 2022
- 2 min
Thank you!
Only a few months after celebrating Thanksgiving holiday we experience another dose of gratitude. At the beginning of each year, we tally...
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Rick Burnette
- Jan 7, 2022
- 3 min
Cultivating Food Solidarity Through Participatory Learning and Action
On a recent Saturday morning, over 30 Immokalee neighbors gathered in the Misión Peniel garden for a brief time of exchange and...
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Rick Burnette
- Oct 7, 2021
- 2 min
Two Churches Reconnect to Cultivate Food and Beloved Community
In April, Rick Shaw, pastor of South Venice (Florida) Baptist, reached out to inquire about church members visiting Cultivate Abundance...
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Rick Burnette
- Jul 9, 2021
- 2 min
Can Doughnuts and Coffee Help Make a Difference in Immokalee?
From January through June 2021, Cultivate Abundance grew and collected 22,482 lbs. of local produce – amounting to 72,780 food servings –...
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Rick Burnette
- Jul 1, 2021
- 3 min
Tortillas for the Glory of God
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10:31) When poverty, unrest, climate change...
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Rick Burnette
- Apr 6, 2021
- 3 min
A Year of COVID-19 Response in Immokalee: What Have We Learned?
Recently, I shared about insights gained from a year of Cultivate Abundance’s response to farmworker food insecurity during the COVID-19...
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Rick Burnette
- Feb 15, 2021
- 4 min
Gardening Lessons and So Much More Learned in 2020
The beginning of the year is probably the busiest time for nonprofits as we crunch numbers from the previous year, analyze the data and...
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Rick Burnette
- Nov 5, 2020
- 4 min
Everyone Gets a Fish
My Facebook friend, Greg, recently reflected on the old phrase, “Give a man a fish, he’ll eat for day. Teach a man to fish, and you’ll...
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Rick Burnette
- Aug 20, 2020
- 3 min
Gardening Without a Garden
Cultivate Abundance aims to saturate the farmworker town of Immokalee, and eventually other food desert communities, with locally-grown,...
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Rick Burnette
- Jul 8, 2020
- 7 min
Food Dumping in a Food Desert: Irony in Florida’s Tomato Capitol
Friday, June 12 Friday afternoon, June 12, was scorching hot in Immokalee, Florida. Practicing social distancing, we were sharing food...
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Rick Burnette
- Apr 25, 2020
- 2 min
Man Cannot Live by Tomatoes Alone
The current COVID-19 pandemic has exposed weaknesses in the US food system, with the farm town of Immokalee right in the middle of the...
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Rick Burnette
- Apr 9, 2020
- 5 min
What One Year of Home Gardening Can Produce
In terms of food production, I’m not quite sure what to call myself. I suppose I’m a home gardener. My residential plot is approximately...
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Rick Burnette
- Mar 13, 2020
- 3 min
White Vans and Community Gardens
Thursday is harvest day in the garden behind the food pantry in Immokalee. During this cool season time of year we gather lettuce,...
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Rick Burnette
- Sep 17, 2019
- 4 min
Time to Celebrate One Year of Gardening at Misión Peniel (Even If There’s No Cake)
A few weeks ago, as I planted cowpeas between the stalks of a maturing stand of Guatemalan corn, I had a flashback.
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Rick Burnette
- Jul 4, 2019
- 3 min
Oh, the Food You'll Grow! (with apologies to Dr. Seuss)
Cultivate Abundance has many local partners that join with us in food solidarity. Some were born and raised in Southwest Florida. But...
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Rick Burnette
- May 28, 2019
- 5 min
Connecting the Gardening Dots in Abaco
It was my first trip to the Bahamas, not all that far from my Florida home. Traveling with Mark Buhlig – Missouri pastor, church...
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Rick Burnette
- Feb 12, 2019
- 4 min
Two Tons Divided By 51 Pounds
Recently I had a pleasant morning devoted to harvesting produce. From my own carambola tree, a little over 40 lbs. of starfruit was...
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Rick Burnette
- Dec 14, 2018
- 4 min
Wanted: Positive Deviants (Part 3) – Maria
My friend, Brad, is almost as nosy as I am as we’re both always on the prowl for interesting gardens. And though we wholeheartedly...
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