Plant Baby Plant

• Words: From Robin Wall Kimmerer and the Plant, Baby, Plant grassroots movement
• Music: Jane Lewis

Plant, Baby, Plant
We’re gonna Plant, Baby, Plant
We rec­i­p­ro­cate the gifts of the land by gifts of our care
We plant, pro­tect, restore and so much more
No more destruction!

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Drill, Baby, Drill, that mantra of destruc­tion and extrac­tion, is an inten­tion­al slap in the face to peo­ple who val­ue land, life, health, and jus­tice over cor­po­rate prof­its. Well, let’s raise a gar­den-gloved mid­dle fin­ger in return. I invite you, my friends, my neigh­bors, my read­ers, my fel­low cit­i­zens into a new move­ment called Plant Baby Plant.

—Robin Wall Kimmerer

https://plantbabyplant.com/
Plant Baby Plant is a new grass­roots move­ment led by Robin Wall Kim­mer­er that invites peo­ple to reimag­ine our shared future through acts of care for the liv­ing world.

What do we mean by “Raise a Garden”?

We define “gar­dens” expan­sive­ly in our move­ment. A gar­den can be a lov­ing­ly tend­ed plot that feeds a house­hold, but it can also be a restored prairie, a healthy for­est, a revi­tal­ized pub­lic park, or any land­scape shaped by sus­tained care and atten­tion. In this sense, rais­ing a gar­den is the ongo­ing prac­tice of enter­ing into rela­tion­ship with land—whether cul­ti­vat­ed or wild—and help­ing it thrive over time.

What do we mean by “Raise a Ruckus”?

A ruckus is any act of indi­vid­ual or col­lec­tive courage that chal­lenges the sys­tems and sto­ries that erode life, from unjust gov­ern­men­tal poli­cies to extrac­tive world­views. Ruckus-rais­ers advo­cate for change. In this sense, rais­ing a ruckus is the prac­tice of speak­ing, orga­niz­ing, cre­at­ing, and engag­ing in restory-ation—changing the sto­ries we tell about our rela­tion­ship to land, com­mu­ni­ty, and respon­si­bil­i­ty, and insist­ing on futures root­ed in reci­procity, grat­i­tude, and abundance.