Happy March! As we end winter this month, I wanted to kick off with discussing the opening of our brand new Fresh Exchange community where we will be focused on growing together as our garden grow through the seasons. In this episode we kick it off by discussing everything you need to know about our community as well as HOW to WIN one of 3 Annual Memberships to the community (a value of $160).
We will discuss the community every week this month before it launches so keep an ear out for more updates and how to get first entrance to this space as well as what events will be offered.
In the rest of the episode I work through why seed starting is not just a check list of items we must do to grow a successful garden. That checklist is located on the blog today, but this podcast gives you a deeper dive into why seed starting is more than just saving some money and being in control of what you are able to grow in your garden.
I leave you in this episode with some big questions and insights into why getting your hands in the soil as we wade through the end of winter, may be one of the most powerful forms of self-care I know of.
I read this excerpt from Mary Oliver's Upstream: Selected Essays if you would like the reference the text I read in the episode:
"Now in the spring I kneel, I put my face into the packets of violets, the dampness, the freshness, the sense of ever-ness. Something is wrong, I know it, if I don't keep my attention to eternity. May I be the tiniest nail in the house of the universe, tiny but useful. May I stay forever in the stream. May I look down upon the windflower and the bull thistle and the coreopsis with the greatest respect.
Teach the children. We don't matter so much, but the children do. Show them daisies and the pale hepatica. Teach them the taste of sassafras and wintergreen. The lives of the blue sailors, mallow, sunbursts, the moccasin flowers. And the frisky ones -- inkberry, lamb's-quarters, blueberries. And the aromatic ones -- rosemary, oregano. Give them peppermint to put in their pockets as they go to school. Give them the fields and the woods and the possibility of the world salvaged from the lords of profit. Stand them in the stream, head them upstream, rejoice as they learn to love this green space they live in, its sticks and leaves and then the silent, beautiful blossoms.
Attention is the beginning of devotion."
Next week we will welcome Andrea Bemis of Dishing Up the Dirt and Tumbleweed Farm to the podcast!
Post and Websites Referenced:
Buying Seeds - Fresh Exchange
How to Start Seeds Indoors - Fresh Exchange
Seed Starting Chart Organizer
Watch How I Start Seeds Indoors - Youtube Fresh Exchange
Books I suggest right now:
Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
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