Maybe your New Year’s resolution was to take up gardening or to garden more, or in a new way? Well, this week is all about gardening even for busy people! Nicole Burke of the online energy force known as Gardenary, and author of "Kitchen Garden Revival" and "Leaves, Roots & Fruit", and now – "The Five-Minute Gardener: Year-Round Garden Habits for Busy People". She is with us to share more about her philosophy around gardening for busy people starting with sharing the germination story of her own wildly successful urban kitchen garden coaching and design business.
Gardening is like any other activities or practices we value – relationships, reading, exercising, spirituality – it takes time and intention, but like all of these other valued endeavors, once the foundation is in place – it does not take all that long to see monumental results – in you and in your cultivation. A career long garden designer and garden coach, Nicole Burke knows that establishing the habit of gardening is key and once it is set, you really only need 5 minutes to “Nurture a year-round gardening habit” which is deeply personal, meaningful, and FRUITFUL.
Nicole also shares her thoughts on the many benefits of the gardening habits in your life, include breaking her own food addiction issues tied up in overly processed foods that are created to be addictive.
ENJOY!
NOTE FROM CP:
Speaking of gardening community – Cultivating Place is hosting its first virtual community gathering on January 28th at 12:00 noon Pacific. The gathering aims to support our cohort of cultivators of place in a variety of ways we anticipate and other ways which will sprout up organically. The inaugural zoom webinar is free, but space is limited so please let us know you’d like a spot soon: email us at: cultivatingplace@gmail.com. Looking forward to gathering with you in this new year and seeing where we grow together!
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Thinking out loud this week...
Hey, it's Jennifer-
Thanks to all of you who have chimed in with interest in the Cultivating Place Community Gathering virtual starting in 2025. We are working away on the initial form of the gatherings as I write but are looking forward to input from you all well in the first get together which is now scheduled for Tuesday January 28th at 12 noon Pacific.
We are hoping this time might allow for working people to come in for their lunch break or to take a late much for those of you on more easterly time zones. If you cannot make the first gathering but would like to participate, make sure to let us know better days times for you and we’ll keep a tally.
We’re holding these gatherings to limited number of spots in order to keep the personal nature of the group personal – we’ll see how it goes. We are hoping to host these events quarterly – near or around the Solstice/equinox time frames.
Our intention is that they will be supportive, encouraging, engaging, and fun but also informative with mini-talks, and idea exchanges, network building etc to keep us focused and fortified in our determination to see the art and practice of gardening uplifted and valued. Because the more gardeners are supported in their impulse, the more we grow – from community to economy, from soil to watersheds, from body to spirit. Can’t wait to gather with you all!
The gatherings are free, but the space is limited: secure your spot by registering here on Eventbrite!
We have so much to cultivate in the coming year and we’ll do it better
together!
Towards the end of our conversation, Nicole shares some very personal and vulnerable experiences with us about her own journey to gardening for food and health; her own journey to a healthier life and mindset from an arduous path through eating disorders. In holding space for this in our conversation, I am reminded again of all that we support in our own lives and in the world generally with this powerful, purposeful, very human impulse to garden: we grow ourselves and our world, and we grow ourselves back together with all other life on this green, blue, generous and gorgeous planet. When we stop and think about that – It’s among our best intentions and resolutions every year, in every season.
Celebrate it for yourself, will you?
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