Today's "Bri Books" is a conversation with ABeautifulNestTV creator Sandria Kendrick, inspired by the book "The Garden in Every Sense and Season" by Tovah Martin. In this episode, we're discussing our 2018 gardens, how you can inject green into your 2019, and more.
- 0:45 - Saying goodbye (for now) to The Bri Garden's 2018 season.
- 2:30 – How a newsletter from urban farming company Square Roots led to "The Garden in Every Sense and Season."
- 3:20 – How book is divided: Each of the four seasons are represented, with each individual season's different sensational gifts–sights, sounds, touches, tastes, scents– woven into a story that explores the ever-evolving garden
- 4:00 – Meet Sandria, creator behind the "ABeautifulNestTV" platform on YouTube, online, and on social media. Sandria shares her story of homesteading with her family in Georgia, and how her love for the soil runs through her veins.
- Listen to Sandria's season 3 interview on Bri Books discussing "Garden Fresh Cooking"
- 7:30 – Sandria's 2018 garden challenges
- 11:00 – Brionna recommends "The Market Gardener" by Jean-Martin Fortier
- 11:30 – In the book "The Garden in Every Sense and Season" mentioned, "Don't twiddle your green thumbs in winter. Wintertime is a time for bring things inward." How can we relish the joys of colder weather?
- 15::00 – How can we inject green and enjoying sensea and seasons into ur November December and beyond?
- 15:30 – Bringing the green inside! Overwintering plants (repotting and growing indoors), growing lettuce, succulents and aloe, indoors are great ways to keep the green inside, even after it all falls away outside. Using blooming branches—flowers that grow on a branch-- or cuttings from evergreen or fir trees can invite nature indoors.
- 18:30 – Sneak peak into Heirloom Acres Seed Store!
- 18:50 – The story behind Heirloom Acres Seed Store
- 23:00 – Fruit and Veggie Varieties 101 with Sandria
- 26:00 – Sandria on Heirloom Acres Seed Store, blog, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube.
- 27:00 – Brionna's story of mailing tomatoes to grandmother, aunt, mother. It was a sweet family intergenerational moment that wouldn't have been possible without abeautifulnest.
- 29:30 – Sandria's #BriBooks: "The Flower Workshop" by Ariella Chezar, "Easy Green Living" by Renee Loux, "The Green Beauty Guide" by Julie Gabriel.
