Together We Grow
Community. There’s no bigger word, no bigger underpinning of sustainable vitality than community. The film “Together We Grow” bubbles up as a way to live our lives. Lives, not incidentally, are often what regular, struggling people live, with community being a way everybody’s lives are better.
“Together We Grow” is a small example. It’s very local. It’s sourced by volunteers, donors, kids, many different versions of people.
It’s a great film title, “Together We Grow.” The people are in it together. Community. A struggling, single mom started it. She’s a nice person to get to know. With the people she helped, she grew and they grew. The size and number of the offerings grew.
The film showcases a kitchen, grocery, a café. They deliver meals to people in need. They manage a farm of sorts. That is, they have raised garden boxes here, someone’s backyard there, a farm plot at a school and a prison and a residential care facility. It all feeds people who need it, people helping to grow it.
It isn’t just food. There’s sewing … again to help, to engage people to be useful, to learn new skills. Such activities get rather commercial, enough to hire people. There’s a bicycle refurbishment and repair … again to help, to engage people.
It sounds kinda big, but while it’s a big little example, it’s really just a little example, where together we grow. We need to be routinely exposed to the example in “Together We Grow.”