Chris Gibbons on Economic Gardening

🌱 Economic gardening is about supporting local entrepreneurs and growing the economy from within.

🌱 It emphasizes on the idea that you don't have to recruit people from outside your community to start and grow businesses.

🌱 The tools, policies, and procedures are designed to help entrepreneurs succeed.

🌱 A regional approach is key to making economic development work effectively in rural areas.

🌱 Smaller communities may not be able to afford high-end tools, but they can benefit from a regional or state-level approach.

🌱 Wyoming's economic development model, based at the University of Wyoming, serves the entire state and supports small communities through staff, resources, and research.

🌱 By leveraging their database research and GIS, they assist small communities all over the state.