Mind Body Garden

This weekend marked the end of the 2019 garden season ☹️ I harvested the last of the ghost, Habanero, jalapeños, and tomatoes with plans to make a big batch of hot sauce and then ripped out the plants with plans to rearrange the garden for an optimal 2020 growing season. Today's episode talks about the cleanup, lessons learned this year and then dives into the plans for optimizing production of tomatoes using the lower and lean method 🌱🍅

Morning walks with the dogs have been a game changer for me this week and I feel like it's really helping me to execute on my other goals & aspirations. In today's podcast I talk about my dreams to buy the greenhouses that are for sale in my hometown and begin to outline my business plan and purpose. This is the start of a series of podcasts I'm doing on the Gardening 4 Gains Business Plan. Though it will be primarily focused on my business, I will still be weaving in gardening tips, tricks, and knowledge - and probably end up being a much more focused gardening podcast as a result! Hope you enjoy and if you have any tips for me in writing this business plan or ways to build my business, comment, dm me or call into the station - would love to hear your thoughts!

I had a small revelation over the weekend that I think is going to lead to a ton of Happiness & productivity down the road. Today's episode dives into the importance of just doing - executing on the goals you set for yourself without putting them on a pedestal. Forget about perfection, dive into brainstorming, creating & sharing what's boiling up in your brain 🧠⚛️

Today's episode dives into the current status of the garden, plans for fall and winter, and lessons that I learned throughout the year. From there I launch into the reason why the garden is scaling so slowly and the importance of patience and Self-awareness in growing a garden & a business. Things get a little passionate later in the episode so I'll apologize now to all the Mammaws & Grandma's for the language 😄

In today's episode I talk about my reactions to several of the books I've been reading including You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier, A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, and I'm currently reading the collected works of Carl Jung who was a psychologist who studied under Sigmund Freud. The topics range from technology and its effect on people & design, a basic and understandable explanation of physics and quantum mechanics, and Jung is great because he's all about the unconscious, the subconscious, and all sorts of mystical areas of study. Hope you enjoy this little rant and the new look, feel, and structure of Mind Body Garden 🧠🏋️‍♂️🌱

Not sure if it's all the reading I've been doing or me & Kyla's new obsession with making TikTok videos, but I've been obsessed with the thought of creativity and making things that matter in the world. In this episode I talk about creativity and the importance of art in all aspects of life from evoking emotion to challenging perceptions and how it enhances life. What creative things do you like to do? And how do you get in a creative mindset? It's funny because I think reading helps fuel my creativity by challenging my thoughts and forcing me to internalize & rationalize it, and then ultimately synthesize it into my own form of creative expression. Would love to hear what creative outlets you like to play around in, let's hear em! 👇😁

We finally got some rain this weekend and the garden was loving it! After starting the year off with a ton of rain, we hardly got any throughout the summer - and summer pretty much just ended since we had 90 degree temps to kickoff October! Between the rain I got into the garden to harvest tomatoes, peppers, and Eggplant. They're all still producing heavy but I foresee that slowing down with the cooler days and near-frosty nights approaching. In this episode I talk about some of the funky variations of peppers in the garden (maybe from cross pollination?), I discuss the seeds I planted, and also talk about what I've learned from the garden this year in order to optimize and improve for next year. Also - if there's topics you want me to explore, or people I should interview - let me know! 👇

Yesterday I started talking about the things I "need" in my life in order to stay healthy physically, mentally, & spiritually - so today I dive into those hobbies and why I'm passionate about them. Whether it's powerlifting or doing yoga, there's a place for hobbies and energy-channeling activities in our lives. With all the unnecessary stress, there's unnecessary energy being wasted as anxiety instead of being redirected into positive growth. What do you do to burn off steam & keep yourself sane?

Reading is something that I love to do but shy away from at times because of the time commitment involved. I just finished a book called "You are not a Gadget" by Jaron Lanier and talk about my experience with the book, how it helped open up my perspectives on online culture, and how the structure of programs can/do influence the outputs by users. Most importantly I think it solidified in my mind that it is easy to become swept away in the system and forget about who YOU are. I also dive into some of the existential challenges this book invoked & how I came to realizations about what I need in order to succeed in my day to day. Overall I think it's important to note that the design of the world is to flatten you out and make people "equal" but it is our uniqueness that define us & add flavor the world

It's October and that means it's my month to be featured as a Burpee Gardener of the Year 🥳👨‍🌾 If you've followed me on Instagram then you've definitely seen pictures of the sweet habaneros, crazy looking purple Brussels sprouts, & that cute little yellow squash - all of those plants were new varieties that I got to test out from Burpee as a part of the gardener of the year program 👨‍🔬🧪💪🌱 In this episode I talk more about the wide variety of plants they sent me, how they grew in the garden, and I also talk about some of the connections I've made along this journey. I'm so thankful for this experience & opportunity and I just don't want the season to end! If you wanna hear more about what got me into gardening & some funny/embarrassing facts, head over to Burpee's website to check out the blog feature they did on me. Link in the bio of my Instagram or burpeehomegardens.com/blog 🙏🤗