Maya Weppner

Going into the school year I was excited to learn more about Idaho and the earth and how to live a more healthy life. Then I joined the Landscape Watercolor immersion and engaged in a lot of ideas on how to become more sustainable and how to better the industrial agriculture system. I ended up learning a lot about farming and the beneficial ways of doing so that help to trap carbon dioxide reducing climate change. I was amazed at how much I didn’t know and how passionate I felt about it. I wanted to help educate everyone on this topic. So I did, in my immersion, I told everyone to watch some of the documentaries I had watched that inspired me. Flash forward a bit and I am the manager of a community garden along with my two buddies Jack and Silas. We’re testing different practices to create healthy soil by not using conventional fertilizers as a way to kill weeds. I stumbled into this role with them just by showing an interest and excitement that I didn’t know I had for farming. It has been so powerful for me to work with the land and soil to create something living that can sustain me and educate others on what healthy living looks like. We have plans to give things that we grow in the garden to people in need. I feel just in our Project Good that we have inspired a lot of people to care about what they eat and where it comes from. Continuing to garden and live a more ecologically conscious lifestyle is definitely something that inspires me and something I feel is a purpose of mine.