Maybe your New Year’s resolution was to take up gardening, or to garden more, or in a new way? Well, this week’s Cultivating Place conversation is all about making time for gardening even for very busy people! 

Nicole Burke, the energy force behind the online forum known as Gardenary, is with us to share more about the philosophy centered in her new book: The 5-Minute Gardener.

It’s the genius of compounded interest – in the garden. And Nicole’s work focuses very specifically on organic, urban kitchen gardens as a way to improve our individual nutritional and physical lives - and as a way to upend the broken and addictive food system we exist within.

Gardening is like any other activities or practices we value – relationships, reading, exercising, spirituality – it takes time and intention, but like all of these other valued endeavors, once the foundation is in place – it does not take all that long to see monumental results – in you and in your cultivation.

A career-long garden designer, garden coach, and trainer of a network of garden consultants, Nicole Burke knows that establishing the habit of gardening is key and once it is set, you really only need 5 minutes at time to “nurture a year-round gardening habit,” which is deeply personal, meaningful, and FRUITFUL.

The author of Kitchen Garden Revival and Leaves, Roots & Fruit, and previously a guest here on Cultivating Place, Nicole offers us great energy for the new seasons ahead. Listen in!

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