How to avoid late-summer pitfalls and plant with clarity, not chaos 🍂 Opening Reflection: Don’t Rush the Reset September is a transition month—hot days linger, but the promise of fall is near. In warm climates like Zone 9, this is the moment when gardeners get antsy. We’re eager to rip out the tired tomatoes and…
A season of slowing down, digging deeper, and planting with presence 🌿 Opening Reflection: Writing the Garden into Your Soul Fall is a season of gathering—of light, leaves, thoughts, and grace. In the garden, it’s when the blazing energy of summer gives way to a quieter kind of beauty. The soil cools. The light softens….
A gentle practice to mark transition, release the past, and welcome grace into your growing space 🌱 Opening Reflection: Sometimes You Start Over There are moments in the garden that feel like failure. The squash vine borer got to your favorite plant. The tomatoes blighted. The heat came early. The plans didn’t unfold the way…
A quiet invitation to notice, name, and nurture what endured 🌿 Opening Reflection: What Remains Is Worth Remembering By the time summer begins to wane, your garden tells the truth. Some things didn’t make it—burned out, bug-bitten, bolted too fast. But some things did survive. Some things kept growing, quietly and faithfully, even under scorching…
A gentle invitation to pause, reflect, and align your garden plans with God’s grace 🌿 Opening Reflection: Begin With Prayer, Not Just a Plan Before I plant a single seed, I try to quiet myself. Not with a checklist or a to-do list—but with a prayer. Because gardening isn’t just about productivity. It’s about partnership….
Lessons rooted in soil, struggle, and the grace to begin again 🌿 Opening Reflection: Not Just Surviving—Rooting Deeper I used to think resilience meant bouncing back. Springing up. Staying strong. But the garden has taught me a different definition—one that is slower, deeper, and often quieter. Resilience, in the garden, looks like: Spiritual and physical…
