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Nurture the Earth: Activist Robin Greenfield Comes to Southwest Florida

Robin is immersed in a year-long activism campaign of foraging 100 percent of his food and medicine across the country. From January 9 to 24, he paddled the Everglades in deep solitude.

Robin Greenfield, a well-known American Environmentalist and Sustainability Activist, will be sharing his decade of living, learning, writing, teaching, and traveling, from 1 to 4 p.m. on February 14, 2026, at the Free Community Potluck & Meeting of the Naples and Collier County Weston A. Price Foundation, co-hosted with The Naples Agorist & Permaculture Club and the Bonita Springs Tropical Fruit Club, at the Collier County UF/IFAS Extension Office in Naples.

Greenfield has provided the inspiration to live a more joyful and connected life, and the education and resources showing how to make that possible. Through education and inspiration, he teaches us what we need to break free from oppressive, exploitative systems and live more closely connected with Earth, humanity, and our plant and animal relatives.

On his website, Greenfield shares, “In 2011, I awakened to the truth that the way I was living was causing incredible destruction to Earth, to my fellow humans and to the plants and animals we share this home with. I learned that nearly every action I was taking each day was contributing to or was complicit in systems of oppression and exploitation. It became apparent to me that my actions were not aligned with my beliefs and that I was not living in integrity. Within days of awakening, I set out on a path to live in harmony with Earth, humanity and our plant and animal relatives. I have been on this journey for over a decade and I am dedicated to walking this path for as long as I live.”

Greenfield is a truth-seeker, activist, social reformer, and servant to Earth, humanity, and the plants and animals we share our home with. His life is an experiment with truth and integrity, and a dedication to living simply and sustainably as a means of active resistance to systems of destruction and exploitation. Through living simply, he rejects societal standards of consumerism that contribute to great inequity and injustice. His public activism involves dramatic gestures designed to reach the mainstream and to provoke critical thought, self-reflection, and positive change, creating nuanced conversations on the critical issues of our time, with a focus on solutions for living in harmony. His work has been covered by media worldwide and he has been named “The Robin Hood of Modern Times” by France 2 TV and “The Forrest Gump of Ecology” and “A Thoreau-esque character for our digital age” by Rich Roll.

He is currently immersed in a year-long activism campaign of foraging 100 percent of his food and medicine. This year, he launched the 1 Million Community Fruit Trees Initiative, with an objective to plant 1 million fruit and nut trees through grassroots, collaborative effort of thousands of individuals and communities across the nation.

Greenfield has written numerous books’ worth of content and hundreds of hours’ worth of video that he shares freely on his website. He is traveling to our community to share his foraging journey, the 1 Million Community Fruit Trees Initiative, and invite us to get involved in it and celebrate the work we are doing to create a more resilient, local food system.

Greenfield is also hosting a day-long Foraging School from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on February 15, 2026, in the Fort Myers area. For more information or to register, visit RobinGreenfield.org/foragingschool.

Location for Feb. 14, 2026 event: 14700 Immokalee Rd., Naples. For more information on this and other dates and locations, visit RobinGreenfield.org. Also visit WestinAPrice.org