5B Resilience Gardens

The 5B Resilience Gardens initiative seeks to broaden community access to local gardening resources, enhance the visibility of existing and new gardens throughout the community and cultivate a vibrant gardening community through resource sharing, collaborative events and educational opportunities. Resilience gardening is any level of edible (culinary and medicinal) plant production that is not sold on a commercial scale. This may include potted plants, edible landscape, gardens in yards or larger shared plots.

Cultivating personal and community resilience through gardening provides a tangible way for individuals to connect with nature, the food they eat and the broader community. Raising awareness of food production as a means to self and community sufficiency is key to being resilient now and in the face of future challenges related to climate change, economic turmoil and public health crises. 5B Resilience Gardens hosts frequent gardening workshops, offers local garden tours and facilitates a gardening Facebook group. Look for 5B Resilience Garden flags up at various public and privately-owned gardens throughout the community. To register your garden, sign up for a workshop, or learn more at 5bresiliencegardens.org.

Started in response to the pandemic, 5B Resilience Gardens is a collaborative initiative of Sun Valley Institute for Resilience and Local Food Alliance. Collaborating organizations include Ketchum Recreation Department, Sawtooth Botanical Garden, Upper Big Wood River Grange, University of Idaho Extension & 4-H, Wood River Community YMCA, Wood River Land Trust, Wood River Seed Library.