This week’s post is simply a brainstorming session on programming ideas and/or social media post ideas.

Cultivate member spotlights:

• Name and brief insight into why working at Cultivate or what Cultivate means to them
• How Cultivate has helped.
• A day in the life of…
• Staff
• Board Members
• Volunteers
• Community members served

Before and After photos/vids of garden

• Short video or boomerang of someone working the area in the before
• A before and after reel video or slideshow

Nutritional/wellness benefits and ways to use plants harvested from gardens.

Other facts about plants:

• Non-traditional uses
• Cultural uses
• Where the plant comes from vs. it is native to the area
• Recipes

Garden How-Tos:

• How to plant
• When to plant
• When to harvest
• Land prep
• Water needs
• Tools and how to use them
• Recipes
• Revive plants/ noticing deficiencies 

Milo history

• Historical facts
• “This day in Milo”
• Historical building photos and facts
• Achievements/successes and what’s happenings of residents
  • Student presentations/projects, graduation posts
  • Sports milestones
  • Local business highlights/spotlights, startups
  • Birthdays
  • Birth announcements
  • Overcoming barriers
  • Activists activating, advocates advocating
  • Job postings/hirings, congratulatory posts for getting hired
  • Fashion/style stunting posts
  • Neighborhood events

Resource sharing, self-advocacy, general wellness

• Resource of the month
• Job postings

• Advocacy & self-advocacy
  • How to say no
    • Why say no
  • Bystander Intervention
  • How to ask for help
    • Why ask for help
  • How to set boundaries
    • Why set boundaries
  • How to ask for a raise
  • How to use 311
    • What 311 does
  • How to contact your gov representatives
    • Why contact representatives
      • What reps do for us/are supposed to do for us
  • Emailing and letter writing campaigns to govt reps, local and national businesses and organizations that affect Milo and Columbus community
    • Partner with other instagram accounts to get the thing circling online
  • How to sign up for government resources you are entitled to
  • Mutual Aid

• Self-Care Tips
  • Events/businesses offering wellness classes/workshops
  • How-to/informational Reels and regular posts
    • Meditation/breathing exercises
    • Journaling
    • Exercise
    • Boundaries
      • Familial, work, religious, school, friends, partners
    • Sleep hygiene
    • Nutrition
    • Doctor appointments
    • Vaccines
    • Biking
    • Yoga
    • Therapy
    • Safe drug use (including alcohol)