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Enrolling New Members Now! 🌸🪻🌸 Our first Garden Story Project Starts January 2027
Where Plants Become the Beginning of the Story
Introducing The Garden Story Project™ - the newest adventure brought to you by Ancestral Roots Herbal Society!
The Garden Story Project™ connects reading books and stories with gardens, plants, nature, creativity, and community learning. Each project invites participants to discover, create, observe, grow, and take action through activities that may include gardening, crafts, nature exploration, discussion, and stewardship. Families and organizations can participate at home or use the project model to create their own learning experiences.
Each month, everyone explores a seasonal theme through carefully selected children's books and an adult book. When we gather, children and adults have age-appropriate activities and discussions, then come back together for family projects and community adventures.
Whether you come to read, create, garden, volunteer, or simply spend time together, there's a place for you in our garden story.
At Ancestral Roots Herb Society, we believe plants are more than something to grow or study. They can be doorways into history, science, creativity, wellness, storytelling, community, and responsibility.
We strive to create opportunities for people of all ages to learn about the world around them through reading books, exploring gardens, hands-on experiences, conversations, observation, and doing -- because knowledge becomes more meaningful when we experience it together.
Our name focuses on herbs; but our purpose is building a community through learning about the natural world around us, together.
Join a Hosted Garden Story
Join a Hosted Garden Story
If your local library, school, museum, garden club, or community organization hosts the Garden Story Project™, your Root Weaver membership unlocks the digital companion resources that go with each monthly story.
Grow Your Own Story at Home
Grow Your Own Story at Home
No local host? No problem. Root Weavers receive the same monthly themes and activities, allowing your family to create the Garden Story experience wherever you live.
Growing together starts here. Discover what your child, teen, or family can expect at every stage of the Garden Story Project.
Growing together starts here. Discover what your child, teen, or family can expect at every stage of the Garden Story Project.
🌱 Family Reading Philosophy
🌱 Family Reading Philosophy
Our books are invitations, not assignments.
The Garden Stories Project uses books to connect children and families with nature, gardening, creativity, literacy, and one another. Because every child is different, families are encouraged to choose the reading format, pace, and level of participation that works best for their child. Some stories may bring laughter. Some may inspire curiosity. Some may bring big feelings or thoughtful questions. That's part of the beauty of reading together. Our goal isn't to see who can read the hardest book. Our goal is to help children discover that books, gardens, and communities are places where they belong.
🌟 Families Don't Have to Read the Same Book to Share the Same Adventure.
🌟 Families Don't Have to Read the Same Book to Share the Same Adventure.
That's the magic.
Children discover the world through their stories.
Adults explore deeper ideas through theirs.
Then everyone meets in the garden.
🌟 Your Reading Can Make a Difference
🌟 Your Reading Can Make a Difference
Adult members have opportunities to turn the ideas explored in our books into action through volunteer hours, stewardship projects, workshops, and community service.
Read a book.
Learn something new.
Roll up your sleeves.
Leave your community a little better than you found it.
Grow With Us
Grow With Us
Memberships, family experiences, and community partnerships all begin with one simple idea: reading, growing, and learning together.
PUT DOWN ROOTS WITH US
PUT DOWN ROOTS WITH US
Your membership helps us grow educational programs, gardens, resources and community Experiences
Root Weavers™
Root Weavers™
The official membership community of the Garden Story Project™. Whether you're joining a local library, school, museum, or garden club—or creating the experience at home—Root Weavers gives your family immediate access to monthly stories, gardens, nature activities, creative projects, and a growing community of lifelong learners.
*ADDED BENEFITS
Our Founding Root Weaver members also get exclusive access to a full resource library of activities and crafts, some of which are not included in the host packet, giving our Founding Root Weavers additional flexibility in their Monthly Adventure.
*Founding Root Weaver Membership is any membership started in 2026 & 2027, you are our first group, and we appreciate you! Your membership allows us to continue building our resource library!)
$20 annual membership • Learn locally or grow from anywhere.
The focus of the membership is on growth and stewardship of nature. (if you are interested in our herb program, see the Herbal Study Circle)
You don't have to be a master gardener or herbalist to belong here.
You don't have to be a master gardener or herbalist to belong here.
Maybe you...
Maybe you...
Love growing things
Enjoy books and stories or botanical crafts
Want to learn about herbs
Care about pollinators or want to volunteer
Want family activities, or to reconnect with traditions
Enjoy Gardening or love asking questions
Or simply want to learn something new
If you're curious, there's a place for you here.
If you're curious, there's a place for you here.
GROWING BEYOND OUR OWN GARDEN
GROWING BEYOND OUR OWN GARDEN
We work with libraries, schools, garden clubs, museums, community groups and more to create opportunities for learning and participation.
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