The Bridge with Randy Jewart (1st draft)

<p>Sculptor / artist / entreprenuer / community-builder, <strong>Randy Jewart</strong> has been based in Austin, TX for about 20 years. He started <strong>Austin Green Art</strong> in 2004, a very successful public art effort to raise awareness on environmental issues and solutions. In 2010, he founded <strong>Resolution Gardens</strong> a small business that began by installing food gardens in people's frontyards for resale at the local food coop. Randy recently co-founded "The GIFT", a community garden project that is a partnership between his folks (secular environmental types) and an Episcopal church (religous environmental types). Now he’s looking at building cooperative food-producing communities outside of Texas, and taking his life on the road. In this podcast we get his reflections on how to "do" local community solutions, particularly in relation to growing food. </p><p>Find Randy through Facebook or <a href="http://resolutiongardens.com">ResolutionGardens.com</a>. </p><p><strong>Topics</strong></p><ul> <li>Randy's work</li> <li>How Randy fell in love with Nature</li> <li>How difficult growing food locally can be</li> <li>Urban farming</li> <li>Employing recovering addicts</li> <li>Randy's life philosophies</li> <li>Randy's vision and where he's headed now</li> </ul><p><br><strong>References</strong></p><ul> <li><a href="https://www.austingreenart.org">Austin Green Art</a></li> <li><a href="https://resolutiongardens.com/about-services/">Resolution Gardens</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/the.gift.atx/?hl=en">The GIFT ATX</a></li> <li>What’s a “<a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/koan">KOAN</a>”? </li> <li><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/soil-biodiversity">Soil mega biodiversity</a></li> <li> <a href="https://terryreal.com">Terrence Real</a>, <a href="https://terryreal.com/product/the-new-rules-of-marriage-paperback/">New Rules for Marriage</a> and manhood</li> <li> <em>The turnip points the way... </em>Here's a somewhat r