Walk the walk when it comes to ethical consumption and care for creation.

Let's Grow Together

  • Whether you are looking to inspire your audience, cultivate your land, or build a thriving community initiative, Dr. Von Hanna combines decades of hands-on experience, ministry insight, and ecological expertise to deliver results. From engaging workshops and keynote talks to full-scale garden and food forest consulting, she helps organizations, landowners, and businesses turn vision into action with sustainable, meaningful impact. She will engage audiences in land care, the theology of food and land justice, native plant preservation, water conservation, and ecological sentience.

    Presentations are tailored to the audience—whether faith-based, educational, or corporate—and designed to provide practical takeaways, actionable strategies, and inspiration grounded in real-world experience.

Podcasts + Interviews

Colette Von Hanna brings a rare mix of domestic and international experience in land and food justice combined with big-picture vision, turning complex ideas about land, community, and sustainable living into insights that resonate. Her curiosly blunt approach to life brings humor, and her fearless perspective of confronting power structures make every conversation lively and unforgettable. This view has been shaped by years of navigating and transforming challenging, toxic organizations to create meaningful change.

Speaking + Lectures

Dr. Colette Von Hanna inspires and informs audiences and ends with a call to action. Drawing on decades of experience, her presentations bridge theory and practice. She equips attendees with insights drawn from years of trial and error in justice and policy work and sustainable land stewardship. She balances the traumatic realities of the world with a hopeful vision of how to make a difference. Dr. Von Hanna' shines a light on systemic corruptive power structures that must be confronted before healing can take place.

Garden + Food Forest Consulting

Do you steward the land or let it lie fallow?

Dr. Von Hanna partners to help transform underutilized land into food forests and multifunctional landscapes. Every piece of land is tailored to each client’s goals. Services include site assessment, planning and mapping, installation, soil analysis and amendment guidance, irrigation planning, and ongoing upkeep, with a detailed record of all work maintained for seasonal tracking. Projects integrate Earth care, permaculture practices, heirloom cultivation, native species protection, pollinator and wildflower areas, and night sky preservation.


She consults with churches, boards, and businesses to strengthen communities through land stewardship, connecting food production with justice-focused programs. Guides organizations in reflecting on historical structures, addressing inequities in hunger and poverty, and developing sustainable practices that support both community and ecological health. Learn what works and what does not when introducing change. Building health starts with the land.

  • Abundance of fresh veggies from colette's garden

    No Space or Audience is Too Small

    Tiny spaces are challenging, however they are exciting to see them develop and transform into an abundant ecosystem of flowers, vegetables, and even chickens! You will be amazed to see how with some guidance, you can maximize your growing area. And planting seeds in the heart and mind happen in small gatherings as well.

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