What began for husband-wife duo Hannah and Brady as a quest to recreate New Zealand-style muesli inspired by their honeymoon travels morphed into a mission to clean up the overly-processed cereal aisle back home in the US. Seven Sundays' humble roots began by selling muesli at the local farmers' market, and today you'll find their muesli and the new Sunflower Cereal in retailers like Whole Foods, Target, and Costco.

Along the way, Seven Sundays is working to build a better food system from the ground up: one that works in harmony with nature and benefits all: from the farmers that grow it to the people who eat it, and everyone in between. By reconnecting people with real food in the morning, they are hoping to inspire the feeling of Sunday every day of the week.

To find out more about Seven Sundays' products head to their website or learn more about them on Instagram.

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Have you tried companion planting? If not today you are going to learn everything about it why Tomatoes are my favorite plant to play with companion planting. They are so fun to use these methods on and I promise you will enjoy it.

Check out this blog post I wrote all about the best tomato companion plants to use in your garden.

OUR COMMUNITY OPENS JUNE 20th for Summer. Get all the info below.

Memberships can be purchased per season at $50 per season or for $160 for all four seasons, which saves $40 a year (nearly a whole season for free!).

To find out more info about the community you can head here to see slides discussing it all.

You can sign up to join the waitlist to hear more by signing up for our FREE newsletter.

If you have questions about the community please direct them to our community specific email: [email protected]

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I am detailing EVERYTHING to know about building a chicken coop and the realities that may surprise you. I spent a lot of time doing the research before we purchased our hens. I had been researching for years. We then created a design for the coop with my dad who is a licensed contractor to plan and layout and then to build last year.

Enjoy all the details and use the blog posts below to help get the breakdown of all my tips to inspire your chicken coop ideas as you design and build your own coop.

Blog Posts I Referenced:

How to Build The Best Chicken Coop

Everything to Know About Backyard Chickens

What You Need for Baby Chicks

You can purchase our plans and see more about our coop. My father helped us design these and drew them as a licensed contractor. The plans include the measurements and the drawings along with the material list.

The automatic door I am raving about from Omlet.

Find out how you can join our community! The doors open June 20th till June 27th. I hope you all join us for the season or the year!

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Dive deep into an honest conversation with Randi Kay of Naturally Randi Kay as she and I discuss the realities of the pressures on mothers postpartum, the rhythm of healing, and how to create a positive structure to self-care that involves healthy rituals amongst the things we already are doing. We are really honest about our shortcomings and how messaging is highly effective in not-so-good ways. We discuss social media and even tie it all back into the garden of course. It's a fun and exciting podcast full of wisdom from Randi.

Randi's story and journey as a new mom is so important and honest because she is a Holistic Health Practitioner and Educator who specializes in women’s health and abdominal care, Randi serves women in Fargo, ND. Her work helps to offer women how to simplify the healing journey by amplifying their own inner wisdom through seasonal healing, body awareness, and intentional living. She recently launched an online community, The Healing Season, to offer a safe space to explore uniting cyclical living to the healing process. She is the creator of the Simple Self Care Podcast.

You can listen to the podcast I did 3 years ago with Randi here on her podcast.

Ways to Connect with Randi:

Her Website

Join her Community

Follow in Instagram

Randi's next Community opening for the Summer Healing Season is in June. Don't miss the chance to learn and heal alongside her and other amazing women.

You can find more on the blog with some quick tips for self-care ideas we shared in the podcast.

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An herb garden is one of the simplest and most rewarding gardens to grow and you can actually grow one and feel super confident about it! It is simpler and easier than you would think. No matter your skill level or the space you have an herb garden is an option for you! I am a huge fan of herbs and have been for so long. Below I detail everything you need to know about growing it successfully, herbs to grow in your garden, and most importantly why an herb garden is the best garden to grow!

If you want more info and the details from this post you can head to the blog post. All the links I mention are there!

How to Actually Grow a Kitchen Herb Garden Confidently

Thank you for listening to Fresh Exchange's podcast where we talk about connecting and grounding ourselves to seasonal rhythms, simple gardening techniques, and curiosities on becoming more connected to ourselves through nature.

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When we talk about our current climate crisis and the decline in biodiversity it can feel so heavy and impossible, but when I started digging into Doug Tallamy's books about how we can reverse what we are currently seeing by focusing more of our yards on Native Plantings and less on growing a lawn....A weight was lifted. Since then I have become impassioned about native plants. How we can add more and how to build a stronger future with less work by putting more of these plants in the ground today.

That said, I feel so thankful we were able to sit down and have this conversation with Doug Tallamy who is the T. A. Baker Professor of Agriculture in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware, where he has authored 104 research publications and has taught insect-related courses for 40 years. Chief among his research goals is to better understand the many ways insects interact with plants and how such interactions determine the diversity of animal communities. Doug's knowledge about the importance and the impact we can make with just a few changes to what we choose for our yard is powerful, approachable, and achievable.

Learn more and dive in through the links below.

Doug's Books:

Nature's Best Hope

Bringing Nature Home

The Nature of Oaks

Join the Homegrown National Park movement

Read more about resources to help you navigate finding out about Native Plants on the Blog.

Follow Homegrown National Park and get great advice from Doug on Instagram

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Backyard Chickens have become so common during the pandemic. 2020 saw a huge spike in families deciding to get chickens, building coops and more. Mike and I joined the masses and added 13 chickens to our land last year and spent our summer building a huge coop. Needless to say, we learned a lot, but I didn't learn any of it without the help of my friends, so I brought on the two women I share a "chicken" text chain with to share hilarious stories, real truths about backyard chickens, and more.

If you want to learn more about backyard chickens and get some highlights from this episode you can head to the blog and read the post all about our chickens and you can watch this Coop IGTV for more info as well on building our coop.

Next month we will be releasing coop plans for purchase and doing a full coop tour so you can see inside around and more. You can also hear the truths and tips we learned in an upcoming episode as well.

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If there is a contentious conversation in the spring outside of the normal issues in our current world it is the conversation about Wild Leeks or Ramps. Every year I am learning new things and then this year I started realizing how many differing ideologies were out there about these plants. I wanted to dig into it with someone who has WAY more experience than me to answer some of my burning questions and help me learn more.

If you don't know about Wild Leeks or Ramps, they are a member of the Garlic family and are some of the first plants to emerge in the woods in the northern parts of the North America. They are really unique and special plants in how they grow and function, but our knowledge about their nature and more is still VERY much being researched. The number of studies on them are still in process so how do we proceed as we see these cover the tables at Farmer's Markets and placed on menues at restaurants.

Every plant we consume has a sustainability to it. Understanding them all can feel really intense, but some we need to care about more. Most plants their sustainability comes down to farming practices, but wild foods have a whole new layer to them. Is it sustainable to place these on a commercial level? Is personal use okay? There are many questions and for most wild foods or even invasive plants the answers are more clear on these answers, but with Ramps well we got some digging to do (not literally!)

So I brought on Timothy Young who is the now-retired founder, of Food For Thought, Inc., creators of organic and wild-harvested gourmet specialty foods here in Traverse City, Michigan. Timothy has an extensive background in travel and human relief work in the developing world inspired which Timothy’s creation of Food For Thought in 1995 with the mission of creating and raising awareness around just and sustainable food systems. In addition to creating exciting products from the farms and forest of northern Michigan, Young has a long history of humanitarian activism on a range of issues, including farmland preservation both here and abroad. A past president of the Northern Michigan Environmental Action Council and former Vice-Chair of the Michigan Land Use Institute.

Currently, Timothy has placed his own land that was used for wild foraging in his company into a restoration mode in order to accommodate studies being done with the FDA, Native American Nations, and Universities to establish the best practices for the sustainability of our wild leek populations in order to preserve their precious position in our eco system.

We answer all the burning questions and start to unpack just how complicated these plants really are and how to respectfully form a bond and relationship with them as humans.

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Today we sit down with Melvin Parson of We The People Opportunity Farm located in Washtenaw County, Michigan just outside of Detroit. Together Melvin and Megan discuss the story that put into motion a Non-Profit focused on helping give new opportunities and break the cycle of incarceration through farming and healing land connection. Melvin personally has experienced the cycle of incarceration and with the help of others was able to set a new path for himself. Today we hear his story and discuss the challenges within black communities facing these issues as well as how heavy the land and human connection can be.

You can learn even more about what Melvin is doing and how you can participate or learn more through the links below:

• We The People Opportunity Farm Website
• We The People Opportunity Farm Instagram
• Get in Touch With Melvin

Thank you for listening to Fresh Exchange's podcast where we talk about connecting and grounding ourselves to seasonal rhythms, simple gardening techniques, and curiosities on becoming more connected to ourselves through nature.

Follow Megan on the Fresh Exchange blog

Follow along on Instagram

See what Megan is loving right now on Pinterest

If you want to follow more of Fresh Exchange you can sign up for the FREE newsletter right here. You will receive a weekly, monthly, and seasonal email to meander your way through intentional living with the cyclical rhythms of nature.

You can find Fresh Exchange's Beginner Garden E-book and a plan for A Simple Raised Bed Garden right here in the online store.

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We are finishing off this week with a quick little extra for you all. We did a quick Q&A with Elana Jadallah of Elanaloo on some of her top tips for Lowering our Waste and Plastic Use. Elana is candid and open about her challenges and where they still lie and how we can handle these things.

She mentions her Sustainable Living Check List so we linked it here for you.

You can follow Elana on Instagram or on her website. She also recently released a gorgeous set of photo presets!

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