As our current lap around the star we call Sol comes to a close, some have offered their predictions for what will occur in the year ahead. Depending on who you are tuning into, some have very dire, and ominous predictions indeed. Others have sobering and unpleasant, yet empowering predictions to offer. Fewer yet, have utopian (sit back and watch the fireworks and saviors will make everything better) type predictions.

Rather than worry about dire predictions or hope for vague saviors to do the work for me, over the last year I have been working to ensure that I will be able to offer a highly accurate prediction for the coming year. I have accomplished this via applying an approach that combines three SolutionsWatch episodes from the Corbett Report into one (Community Gardens, Regenerative Agriculture and Guerilla Gardening) so rather than extrapolate potentials of what might happen due to external events impacting me and my community, I worked to make an internal vision, hope and knowledge base manifest outwardly in ways that will definitely impact me and my community (and in ways that nourish, heal, connect and uplift).

In other words, I planted tens of thousands of heirloom perennial herb, veggie and berry seeds and hundreds of food and medicine producing tree seeds this year. I sometimes did this in collaboration with people in my community and sometimes I did it covertly in local parks and abandoned fields, and I always did so in a way that would enrich local biodiversity and enrich the soil.

Thus, my prediction for 2025 is that many of the seeds (and seedlings) I planted this year with love will grow next year and set down roots, beginning a process of providing food, medicine, hope, beauty and the foundations for local culinary traditions for people alive today, and people that will call this place home after I am gone.

I also predict there will be a bunch of surprised and excited gardeners out there receiving unexpected bundles of heirloom seeds with books they ordered 😉

There is a line in the Forward written by Samuel Thayer (for “Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies Book” by Akiva Silver) shown in the pic I attached to this post that I have found to be particularly moving and motivational to re-visit this year. It says:

“Perhaps we cannot guess what the future holds, but we can plant it”

That has really been my motto and mantra this year and I plan on continuing to live by it next year.