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Twisted Root Organics I make veggie gardening simple. Ready to get growing 🌱🥕?!

I’ll help you build & plan a custom kitchen garden with personalized family lessons, planting support, and season-long maintenance (plus harvest help) so you can grow fresh food with confidence!

Last night I gave a talk to the Rocky Brook Garden Club on the history of home gardens in the US, and I'm still smiling ...
10/09/2026

Last night I gave a talk to the Rocky Brook Garden Club on the history of home gardens in the US, and I'm still smiling about it ☺️.

We covered so much, from the Lenape farmers and colonial kitchen gardens, through the “Founding Farmers” like Washington and Jefferson, into Detroit's potato patches, to the heart of the talk: WWI war gardens and WWII victory gardens. It's a history that's often forgotten, and it still shapes our food system today.

My favorite part was realizing how tied the WWI food campaign/ farm movement was to the women's movement. Most people think of women stepping up to help in the factories during the wars while the men fought, but just as many were called out to farm the fields. Women organized, trained, and fed the country while still being denied the vote, and what they learned on the land fed straight into 1920, and beyond.

Thank you to the club for hosting me and for asking such good questions. If your garden club, library, or community group would like this talk, send me a message! I really enjoyed the research, and there are so many lessons and facts that should be shared.

08/05/2026

August is a time of bounty and overwhelm. This garden is splitting at the seams right now, but man is she beautiful. This client had raised beds that are 8x8, which make it hard to get to the center, so we sprinkled in native pollinator flowers and cut flowers to help fill the unusable space. It’s wild, but gorgeous. I love this time in the garden 💚🥒🌱

07/22/2026

20 minutes of weeding that should’ve happened three weeks ago. Wet July means fast weeds, and overgrown pathways trap humidity right next to whatever’s planted there, which is exactly where fungal problems start.

Nature therapy, or just damage control. Save this for the next time you’re deciding whether to ignore the weeds or not. My advice: get them while they’re young!

07/16/2026

The vote to save Melick’s Farm Stand didn’t happen last night. It got punted to September 22nd. But that’s not the whole story. 👇

Nearly 500 of you showed up either in person, in the overflow room, and on the livestream. And the YouTube recording keeps climbing (currently at 2k views). I walked away with two big questions:

1. Why did the rules keep shifting? We were told, on record, that the Melick’s case would go first with a vote by July 28th. Instead we waited two hours, everyone got three minutes, not everyone got to speak — and at one point we were told not to comment on the master plan, which is the entire heart of this case.

2. What’s in the “storage demand study”? The board says it proves Bridgewater needs this facility — but no one from the public can seem to get a straight answer on where to read it. If a study is being used to justify tearing down a pillar of this community, we should see it before any vote. Our team is looking into a formal records request.

Here’s the hopeful part: this community totally showed up. And we’re not going anywhere.

Before September 22nd, here’s how to help:
📺 Watch the full recording (link in bio)
✍️ Write a letter to the editor
📩 Write the zoning board (cc the council) about how residents were treated
⚖️ Help us find an attorney
📣 Show up on the 22nd, and bring someone
If we keep showing up, they may just do the right thing.

SAVE THE DATE: September 22nd. Be there.

07/10/2026

Your comments made it onto the official record last night.

I won’t be able to get to Tuesday’s Zoning Board hearing, so I went to the Bridgewater Township Council meeting instead and reported the response to my last video: 40,000+ views, 200+ comments, 874 shares, and the stories behind them. People who grew up at that stand. People who don’t want a working farm traded for a storage unit.

✨WHAT YOU CAN DO✨

‼️The board votes Tuesday on the variance for the Melick’s property. Here’s how you can help, wherever you are.

📍If you’re in Bridgewater: show up. Tuesday, 7 PM. You don’t have to speak, being in the room counts.

📽️If you’re not local: get on the YouTube livestream that night. The board can see how many people are watching, and every viewer is one more sign this matters.

📆Calendar hold and the livestream are available at the link below. Want to speak or get more involved? DM me and I’ll connect you with the organizing team.

🔗 https://tinyurl.com/SaveTheFarmStand
Tip: screenshot this and click the link from your photos app.

For the record: I serve on Somerville’s Environmental Commission, not Bridgewater’s. I’m here trying to help in my capacity as an organic farmer and small business owner, not in any official capacity.

07/07/2026

This farm stand has sold fruit and vegetables on this spot for decades. Melick's Town Farm has run it since 2005 (it was Bob’s Fruit Stand before that), and the town’s zoning doesn’t allow storage on this lot. The developer needs a variance to do it anyway, and part of the plan turns the site into a retention pond.

Bridgewater’s 2025 Master Plan calls for promoting farm markets like this one. Now is an opportunity to live up to it.

The Zoning Board votes on the variance July 14th, 7 PM, at 100 Commons Way (Bridgewater Municipal Building). Show up if you can, or send the board a written comment. Feel free to use the template at the link below. Public input on the record counts.

Save this and send it to someone in the area who’d want to know. 🥕

🔗 https://tinyurl.com/SaveTheFarmStand
Tip: screenshot this and click the link from your photos app.



Note: I sit on Somerville’s Environmental Commission, but this is a different matter outside that board’s reach. I’m posting here as a neighbor, grower, and proponent of the local food movement. Nothing more official than that.

06/23/2026

The longest-living people on earth don’t go to the gym. They garden.

In nearly every Blue Zone around the world, the folks hitting their 90s and 100s are still out in their garden every day. Weeding, watering, harvesting, bending, reaching, squatting, hauling. It’s low-intensity movement you do without ever calling it a workout, which is exactly the kind of range of motion your body wants to stay limber and strong.

It won’t replace strength training if that’s your goal. But as an activity you’ll still be doing in 40 years? Hard to beat.

The science holds up for the physical activity, but time in the garden also helps to lower cortisol, and getting your hands in the soil gives you access to microbes that help populate your gut biome.

I spent about 20 minutes clearing one badly overgrown bed. By the end, I’d found a friend (stay to the end for him).

Save this for the next time someone tells you gardening isn’t real exercise.

06/19/2026

Here’s a great representation of the explosive growth that happens between May and June in a NJ kitchen garden! June is my favorite month in the garden, lush greens, exciting fruits like snap peas, and the beginnings of the “cash crops” like tomatoes.

Thank you, Nikki Brzyski, for sharing a piece of your little homestead with me 🥰 I love hanging with you and the boys, and the chickies!!

(Merch link in bio for the hat and tee 🥰)

06/17/2026

You can grow food anywhere…even an urban balcony 🌱

Chef Lauren teaches people how to cook healthy. Timarie twistedrootorganics teaches people how to grow. When we reconnected at Duke Farms and realized our goals had been aligned the whole time — this collab was inevitable.

Did you know that the moment a vegetable is harvested it starts losing nutrients? Vitamin C, folate, antioxidants practically evaporate within hours.

So we’re fixing that, one growing space at a time 🌱

Part 2 coming soon - follow along to see what we do with Lauren’s balcony, and what she makes with her organic, homegrown food!

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