Introduction 🌸 Every garden tells a story—but not just of seeds and sunlight. The soil holds lessons that can’t be found in books, whispered instead through slow growth, sudden setbacks, and grace that meets us between the rows. Each season brings its own curriculum. The spring teaches hope, the summer teaches endurance, the fall teaches…
Introduction 🌸 The garden rests, and so must we. There’s a holiness to the hush of winter. The beds are bare, the air is still, and the soil, though sleeping, holds a quiet pulse of life beneath its surface. If you pause long enough, you can almost feel it—the slow heartbeat of creation waiting on…
Introduction 🌸 The garden knows how to wait. Long after the harvest baskets are stored and the tools are hung, the soil settles into stillness—quiet, resting, yet alive with unseen work. We often think of winter as an ending, but the garden reminds us that stillness is a sacred beginning. Beneath the quiet surface, roots…
At the end of every gardening season, it’s easy to focus on what went wrong: the bugs that devoured cucumbers, the peppers that never ripened, the weeds that seemed endless. But what if we slowed down and noticed what did go well? I remember one year when squash bugs nearly ruined my joy. Yet as…
đź““One of my most valuable gardening tools doesn’t live in the shed—it lives on my desk. A journal. I started writing down weather notes almost by accident. One year, I scribbled “frost came early—lost basil overnight” in the margin of a notebook. The next spring, I noted “late cold snap—covered tomatoes just in time.” Over…
Introduction 🌸 The garden has a way of slowing us down. Every seed holds a secret, every bloom whispers a story, and every harvest is a reminder that growth takes time. When I began journaling in my garden, I thought it would be a place to keep track of dates, seed varieties, and harvest notes….
