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Rick Burnette
Jul 4, 20193 min read
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, 20195 min read
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
Jul 25, 20186 min read
Gardens That Result in Food… And Community
Awareness of community gardening in North America has exploded over the past two decades. Often associated with urban gardening in the...
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Rick Burnette
Oct 23, 20172 min read
The Risky Business of Gardening
While running an errand in south Fort Myers I noticed a garden patch. Squeezed between a canal and an apartment building, this plot...
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Rick Burnette
Oct 2, 20172 min read
The Immokalee Way
The Thai-Myanmar border and Immokalee, Florida are half a world away from each other, but both locations have a strong pull. In 1994,...
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Rick Burnette
Oct 2, 20173 min read
Responding to Food Insecurity in Immokalee
Despite Florida supplying 2/3rds of America’s wintertime tomatoes, Immokalee’s farmworkers – the vast majority being migrants – struggle...
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