Nan Braun

Untethering beans from their entanglement with the parent plants, I listen to kind voices carried on the wind across the garden. We are here getting our hands dirty in the best way, chatting of bread and family and curiosity, sharing what we know and building community as brains and bodies are born to do. There is joy in finding the emerald spires, magnificent in their mass and nutrition. These will feed hungry mouths, and we are a part of it. Our souls so hungry in these days of pollution,...

We’ve Been Selected as a 2026 AARP Community Challenge Grantee! Flowers Feed Folks is thrilled to announce that we have been selected to receive a 2026 AARP Community Challenge grant. This year, only 750 grantees were chosen from 5,100 applications from across all 50 states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. With this quick-action grant, we will be able to add tools and infrastructure at our gardens that make gardening easier for folks whose bodies do not bend, lift,...

If you had ever visited me in my old home, the first thing you would have noticed was my front garden. I use the term "garden" very loosely because it was less a garden and more of a riot of plants duking it out for supremacy, barely contained by a fence made of split rail and twigs and paths made of river stone. There was no lawn, no neatly trimmed hedges, just color and chaos and, to me, unrestrained beauty and life. It was filled with bumblebees and monarchs, and my intention was that my...