How I use a rolling spreadsheet to track my winter sowing, seedling transplanting and seed gathering through the year.

This audio is an imperfect recording, excerpted from an unscripted Zoom chat, recorded on March 27, 2025

Preparing the nursery and the plants for winter, including how I cover the trays to protect them from excessive freeze-thaw cycles or drying out.

This audio is an imperfect recording, excerpted from an unscripted Zoom chat, recorded on March 27, 2025

Almost all of my plant sales are online (I'll cover this in a later chat). This is how I pack the orders once they come in and how I organize the nursery space to support being able to do this in an efficient way.

This audio is an imperfect recording, excerpted from an unscripted Zoom chat, recorded on March 27, 2025

Where I source containers for the various sizes of seedling plugs I offer.

This audio is an imperfect recording, excerpted from an unscripted Zoom chat, recorded on March 27, 2025

Finding a balance between trying to sterilize a space that will never be sterile ad letting the plants and all the other life that would like to eat them battle it out, with a few notes on disease lifecycles.

This audio is an imperfect recording, excerpted from an unscripted Zoom chat, recorded on March 27, 2025

How and when I sow seeds and why I dense sow in pots rather than sowing individual seeds into plug trays.

This audio is an imperfect recording, excerpted from an unscripted Zoom chat, recorded on March 27, 2025

Seeds for the nursery come from many sources: Roadside patches, seed libraries, gardens and growers; seeds for the nursery come from many sources and, happily, species diversity and availability is steadily increasing.

This audio is an imperfect recording, excerpted from an unscripted Zoom chat, recorded on March 27, 2025

A few final thoughts from the end of our first chat about the nursery documentation project and the reasons that I've been working to develop this business model.

This audio is an imperfect recording, excerpted from an unscripted Zoom chat, recorded on March 20, 2025

Expanding on the topic of peatmoss from an extracted material standpoint, in comparison to coconut coir. We also chat about urban compost, yard waste compost biological diversity and including home compost in potting media.

This audio is an imperfect recording, excerpted from an unscripted Zoom chat, recorded on March 20, 2025

Plants are living beings with complex relationships. Placing their appearance ahead of their relationships is part of what got us to this degree of ecological catastrophe.

Even now, we know so little about ecosystem relationships that we can’t plan a perfect ecosystem but there are ways to set the plant community you are working with up for success and get to healthy ecosystems more quickly.

This audio is an imperfect recording, excerpted from an unscripted Zoom chat, recorded on March 20, 2025