Harvest Notes
Harvest Notes
Field notes and gardener’s insights from the fertile ground where health innovation meets community wisdom. From equity in design to the hidden costs of overlooking Medicaid populations, we gather insights, lessons, and lived experiences that help health innovators to grow ideas that actually take root. These are the stories, strategies, and seeds of change we’ve cultivated alongside the community-based organizations shaping a healthier, more just future.
Why Sow & Bloom is Committed to NPOs & CBOs: A Gardener’s Guide to Economic Biodiversity
In my garden, the cucumbers always come first. They vine fast, flower early, and fruit in quick succession. Within weeks of planting, they’ve conquered the trellis, their broad leaves casting deep shade over anything slower to grow. The watermelon vines—more intricate in leaf, more deliberate in pace—are left to survive on whatever scraps of light reach the soil.
It’s in this quiet patch of earth that I came to understand what happens when our economy focuses almost exclusively on venture-scale businesses and tech startups.