The current state of the world has led to increased extreme weather events resulting in disrupted crop production, sky-rocketing grocery prices, and increasing food insecurity. Many young people have lost hope in becoming homeowners or landowners, leading them to believe that gardening and seed saving are not relevant to their lives; however, their importance has never been more crucial. As the saying goes, “There is no Planet B.”

With gardening experience of almost 40 years, Brenda Dyck is a Canadian guerrilla and chaos gardener who considers it her personal mission to influence people to take up gardening and connect to their community.
From a TEDx talk (The Guerrilla Garden Manifesto—Taking Back Your Green Spaces), to presentations, workshops and even free seed giveaways, she is constantly looking for ways to help people improve their lives through gardening. Being a “garden rebel,” she will often embrace the “seedy side of gardening” and loves to encourage people to “guerrilla garden” on land that does not belong to them, to learn how to save their own seeds, and to use seed bombing and chaos gardening to improve their communities.