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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.
See Our Hosts
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.
Become a Root Weaver
🌟 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.
What to Expect
What to Expect
Four Our Youngest Members
Four Our Youngest Members
Our Children's Garden Stoy brings stories to life through a monthly children's book, hands-on crafts, garden discoveries, and family challenges.
Each month, young members will:
📚 Discover a new children's book
🎨 Create a hands-on craft to take home
🌱 Explore a garden or nature theme
🐞 Investigate the world around them
🌼 Complete a family Grow-Along Challenge
🌎 Participate in community adventures
The children's group meets separately from the adults so our youngest gardeners can learn, explore, and share at their own level.
Every book opens a garden gate—and every young reader gets to decide where the adventure leads.
🌟 What They Take Home
🌟 What They Take Home
A new story, a handmade creation, a garden challenge, and hopefully a little dirt under their fingernails!
For the Family
For the Family
The Family Garden Story is designed for families who want to experience the magic of both the children's and adult reading adventures together. Each Month will have books for each centered on the same theme.
Each month, your family will have the opportunity to experience:
📚 One Adult Book
📖 Children's Book (multiple reading levels)
🌱 A Family Garden Challenge
🎨 A Hands-On Family Project
🌎 A Community Adventure
Parents, caregivers or grandparents can enjoy the adult book while children explore their own story. Then everyone comes back together for activities that connect the two.
This is where the whole family comes together!
For example, an adult book about pollinators might be paired with a children's story about bees. Your family might then:
🐝 Build a pollinator habitat
🌼 Plant flowers together
🎨 Make a bee-themed craft
📚 Compare what the two books taught you
🌱 Visit a local garden
🤝 Participate in a community stewardship project
For Adults
For Adults
Members explore one carefully selected adult book each month, connecting literature with gardening, nature, history, sustainability, herbal wisdom, and community.
Members can expect:
📚 Monthly adult book discussions
🌿 Hands-on garden projects
🍵 Seasonal workshops and demonstrations
🌱 Gardening and plant education
🐝 Nature and environmental exploration
🤝 Volunteer opportunities
🌎 Community stewardship projects
👩🌾 Guest speakers and special experiences
Some months may take us into a garden. Others may take us into a workshop, a historic site, a nature trail, or a community service project.
We don't just read about the world—we step outside and experience it.
See an Example of the Monthly Adventure Packet
Build Your Community
Build Your Community
PUT DOWN ROOTS WITH US
PUT DOWN ROOTS WITH US
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)
Your membership helps us grow educational programs, gardens, resources and community Experiences
Become a Root Weaver
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.
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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.
Become a Partner
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🌱 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.
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