11/30/2019
Looking back on how far we came this year is uplifting. It is interesting how the present has a way of masking the past. I was shocked to remember what the garden looked like in the spring. Lots of learning and figuring things out, some beautiful successes and some well learned mistakes.
From the delight of serving cacao at farmer's markets, to discovering when you’ve spread too thin.
To children’s garden days with high hopes for a full season, to scaling back to better create the space as viable for those lessons in the future.
Some mildew and such brought about opportunities to research and learn how to better care for our plant babes.
Patience was my biggest take-away. To force often creates more issues. But tactical drive is still key to success. So I learn another lesson along the way, as to flow with the yin and yang through the seasons of life. When to nurture/dream and when to build.
So if you’d like take a look at how the garden grew this year here you go. It was a big soul building year as the hugelkultures begin to breakdown to their nutrient rich building blocks but harvests were bountiful as well.
Thanks to all who have helped and supported this project, so many but some call-outs for Sarah Nordseth, Madeline Coleman, Holly Hill Farm (and the beautiful people who make that special space what it is), Fans of the Marshfield Farmers Market (Massachusetts), Cohasset Farmer's Market, Kristin Collins Butler and my little garden helpers, Christi Collins (Super.Nonna), Luck Pops, Connor Croteau, Veronica Mae Ramsey Carney and myself Pat Collins.
P.S. Thank you water, trees, fungus, bug friends, critter friends, the resident chipmunk who was so cute but ate all the kale, soil, microbes, the OG indigenous peoples who once stewarded this land, the earth, the sun, the moon...universe as a whole, and all the people fighting to re-align our culture as to once again be in sync with the circle of life.
