The long awaited 2020 garden recap is here! In today's episode on Fresh Exchange we will be recapping the last year in our garden in the midst of a pandemic. We fell for the bigger garden and build a chicken coop trends of 2020 and I am here to share everything I learned through the process.
We begin the episode discussing seed shortages and I suggest checking out this blog post if you would like more info on it and what to expect but as a quick note. If you are beginner don't feel rushed to buy seeds and in fact I suggest buying them from local nurseries and farms instead this year just to take the load off if you can. Then for advanced gardeners it is best to buy what you need solely. Don't get to excited and start hoarding seeds.
Lastly I suggest looking into seed exchanges. We will be offering a section of our community that will focus on this, but there are plenty of options to help you find seeds. Scarcity shouldn't cause fear in us, just to be identified as an opportunity instead to make a connection to others who we can learn from. Living in a mindset of abundance is a much more gratifying way to perceive our life.
Getting into the meat of the garden recap, we talk about garden journals and how I perceive them when it comes to my garden. Another thing we will be covering in our community site beginning in March and I will touch on within an episode here as well.
I then disclose everything we tackled, what surprised me, what I learned, and the biggest failures I had.
We head into the plan for 2021 and talk about what my main plan is and then eventually finish up by discussing HOW I plan my garden and though it sounds super calculated you may be surprised by the way I perceive the garden planning process.
Next week we will dive deep into how I thrive in a season that takes me far from the garden and how winter is the season I have learned is less about surviving and more about healing and coming home. Yes! This means I will teach you how to actually live really well in winter. It is easier than you may believe.
See you out there friends!
Blog Posts Referenced:
All About our Steel Raised Beds
My 2020 Garden Recap
Reading suggestions:
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Visit my Pinterest page for ideas to help with Companion Planting and Guilds
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