Purpose
We observe that many incumbent organizations, whether educational, corporate, or non-profit, don’t have the ability to effectively address the current topical needs and rapidly shifting career interests of today’s students.
Ideagarden aims to address these gaps and opportunities by rapidly designing and delivering courses, programs and platforms that bring open access to a diverse community of learners.
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Alice Waters enjoying the koi fish on an Edible Schoolyard retreat
The Ideagarden’s roses in full bloom
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Roses in full bloom at the Ideagarden.
We seek to accelerate the heartiness and growth of emerging leaders and organizations who share our intention of flourishing in our society, environment, and environment.
Ideagarden Institute offers an evolving curriculum of entrepreneurial lessons to facilitate motivated individuals to imagine new solutions and deliver results that are resource aware and balanced.
By encouraging collaborators’ own agency, Ideagarden Institute hopes to germinate the potential of each entrepreneur to impact positive change on the world. We call these people "Pragmatic Visionaries."
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An entrepreneur with a collaborating partner picking stone fruit
What is ecological entrepreneurship?
Visualizing business and
change-making within our larger environment, with intentions and directives guided from our natural systems.
What can we learn from the garden?
We may draw entrepreneurial lessons from the physical and metaphorical garden, as individuals become stewards embedded with care and adaptability — using our surrounding resources to imagine new solutions to issues that threaten the survival of the food system and our wider social wellbeing.
We may draw entrepreneurial lessons from the physical and metaphorical garden, as individuals become stewards embedded with care and adaptability — using our surrounding resources to imagine new solutions to issues that threaten the survival of the food system and our wider social wellbeing.
Gardeners become stewards embedded with care and adaptability — using surrounding resources to imagine new, resilient solutions to issues that threaten our ecosystem’s survival and wellbeing.
How do gardening and entrepreneurship reflect each other?
Through cultivation, both gardening and entrepreneurship transform visionary ideas to pragmatic execution.