Restoring our relationship to land and each other
The work of Wild Heart is to restore our relationship to land and each other through garden services, hands-on learning and guided journeys. Wild Heart does this through building a network of stewards, cultivating a culture of wonder and practicing an open wild heart.
Wild Heart dreams of a future where humans are in balance and harmony with the earth and all life is vibrant and healthy and sacred. A future where we are accountable to our actions, aligned with each other and live abundantly.
2024 Update
I’m still immersed in full time work at a high school leading outdoor adventures, tending to their school garden and pollinator project expansion as well as starting seedlings at a community deep winter greenhouse.
With all that said, I’m open to collaborate on garden services—I will have limited capacity to consult, design and install a few garden projects this season. Get at me if you think you’ve got a project on the horizon and need some support to make it happen! Community projects to the front please! I’m especially interested in incorporating more medicinal plants and building out home apothecaries to care for your common ailments. Email me to explore initial possibilities wildheartmn@gmail.com
En paz,
2023 Update
Change is on the horizon!
Wild Heart is taking the 2023 season off from garden services + hands-on learning + guided journeys. I accepted a full time job working at a high school and am focusing my work on environmental education and building relationships with youth for this year.
I am still open to partnerships and collaborations around environmental education! Please reach out if you’d like to connect! Email: wildheartmn@gmail.com
This won’t be the end for Wild Heart, just a pause, a break, a re-set. Sometimes it takes seeds longer to emerge. Stay tuned!
En paz,
Winter is for rest + restoration + seeding ideas for 2022.
2021—A year of GROWTH
The year was JAM packed with projects and people and commitments. It was all about weaving the social fabric of communities growing food and healing together. Here are a few 2021 Growing Season Highlights:
Working with a rad team of movers and shakers at Plant Grow Share as we build out solidarity efforts for food sovereignty in South Mpls + folding in anti-racism as a foundation to the work + beginning to form the People’s Land Network
Transforming a school garden + offering a class on skills for a resilient future of soil health, seed collecting, water systems, food and medicine growing
Tending, guiding forward and closing out garden clients spaces with care of perennials, garden designs for native plantings this upcoming spring and a handful of possibility sessions to explore building out more habitats for pollinators.
Working as a collective with a community farm as we transition leadership, vision and land care practices that center the voices and lived experiences of communities that have been forced from the land, centering culture + healing + truth telling
Helping out with urban farm greenhouses + seeding ideas of communal winter growing spaces, imagining community compost drop sites, neighbors leading walks to collect seeds, empty lots into public hands
Together we can restore our relationship to land and each other other.
May this spring bring you the fresh smell of earth and time to notice life return after a long winter! Check back for updates and events as Wild Heart emerges this spring! And be sure to follow Wild Heart on Instagram @wildheartmn
Alisa encouraged a deeper sense of questioning about the land on which we abide, its history and the ways it intersects with the world. Her holistic view of generating programs inspires me to take a much more multi-faceted approach to my own curriculum planning and relationship to the land.”
— Christina Beck PCF Community Council, PCF On-Farm Educator, PCF Garden planting, hosted month long residency at PCF