This is a subject I like to touch on from time to time as a little reminder to focus on the foundation of growing as a gardener. Finding your why, knowing your reason why you make time to grow food for your family when things get tough, busy, too cold or dark to grow anything…
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Beyond Gardening Basics: Setting Goals for Your Gardening Season
Every gardening season whether it’s your first or your 50th it’s a good idea to to set goals for what you want to do, learn, experiment with in the garden. Every season offers new opportunities to learn something new, to grow and stretch your skills, experience and insights about growing your own food, flowers and…
Seed Buying Tips
It is always such and exciting time when it comes to shopping for seeds. You can easily get overwhelmed by all the choices, companies and trends. These seed buying tips can bring you more ease and possibly save you some money when it comes time to purchase your seeds for the coming season. You may…
Four of My Favorite Cut Flowers for the Kitchen Garden
Growing flowers in and amongst your kitchen garden is highly beneficial for so many reasons. Flowers bring pollinators and beauty to your kitchen garden. You’ll notice that beneficial insects help with pest pressure. This is incredibly important when you want to grow holistically and utilize organic gardening principles. I love growing flowers, especially cut flowers…
Holistic Seasonal Living: 5 Self Care Tips to Help Support You Through the Winter Season
Living a slow, intentional and holistic way connected to the seasons to me is the most natural way to live. There are many things we can do each season to feel our connection to nature and the season. Today I am sharing a few of my favorite ways to connect with the slow, hibernating and…
Some Medicinal Herbs I’m Growing in 2024
Growing a medicinal herb garden should be a part of everyone’s garden plan. You do not need to have a specific garden space for medicinal herbs, you can pepper them throughout your kitchen garden and yard. So many medicinal herbs are wonderfully beautiful and beneficial in the garden. I could not pick a single medicinal…
January Garden Planning & Preparation Tasks
January is a time full of hope and excitement in relation to the garden. Seed catalogs are arriving in a steady fashion. The list of things I want to grow in the coming gardening season can really add up. Thankfully this is the time where I make sure that my growing season plans are well…
What I’m Doing in the Garden in July
July in the garden is a time filled with lots of activities and tasks. Below is a list of just some of the things I am doing in my garden throughout July to keep the garden happy and producing lots of food, flowers and herbs. Somethings are helping keep pest pressure down as well as…
Garden Inspiration: Look Back to Move Ahead
Feeling overwhelmed by the ever growing and bountiful garden? Think back to those cold, dreary winter days when you were dreaming of the gardening season. Remember how you couldn’t wait for the ground to thaw enough to sow those first early cool season seeds? Think back to the excitement you had looking through all the…
3 Tips For Gardening in the Heat
July in Colorado can be the kick off to hot weather for days on end. In fact, in my specific growing area July is considered a “Hot Season” within the Arc of Seasons as taught by Gardenary. Our average high is 90°F with average overnight lows sitting at 58°F. With this heat comes the need…
Tips For Before & After A Damaging Storm
The above pictures are all from the last few weeks in my garden. You can see I have used shade cloth and even chairs to help protect the garden beds. This season has been so different to any other growing season we have had in at least the last ten years, if not longer. We…
5 Annual Flowers For the Kitchen Garden
Incorporating flowers into raised beds can help bring pollinators to the garden. There are many ways to do this. Some people add a border of flowers around the edge of the kitchen garden or pots surrounding the garden, others add flowers to the raised beds. Flowering herbs are also great picks with the added bonus…
Candice Cullen Holistic Nutritionist, Herbalist, Culinary Nutrition Expert & Garden Coach 