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For World Food Day, I’m exploring what food-system innovation can look like from EPCOT and the open-source Windowfarms movement to backyard gardens, hyperlocal microgreens and an Orlando farm sharing its harvest.

Learn what regenerative gardening means and eight practical ways to protect soil, grow food, support biodiversity, and build habitat in any space.

This week reminded us that healthy gardens grow more than food. As cucumbers climbed, blackberries ripened, and cardinals nested among the trees, we began seeing the first signs of a thriving ecosystem taking shape in our regenerative urban garden.

March felt like the month when the garden truly began to wake up. After weeks of rebuilding soil, recovering from unexpected frost damage, and preparing planting spaces, we started seeing the first signs that the ecosystem was responding. New growth emerged on fruit trees, pollinators began returning, harvests became more frequent, and our vertical growing systems started filling in. One of the most rewarding parts of regenerative gardening is witnessing these small changes a

This spring planting guide documents what we're growing in our Zone 10A Florida garden, including cucumbers, eggplant, zucchini, companion plants, pollinator flowers, and regenerative gardening practices designed to improve biodiversity and soil health.

Week 2 of restoring this urban garden in zone 10A (Florida) using regenerative gardening practices.

Inspired by Epcot’s Living with the Land & Behind the Seeds. Read how innovation, sustainability, and urban agriculture can work together.

While most gardens rest for winter, mine is just beginning to bloom. Here’s what I planted and learned in my zone 10A container garden.