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  • Garden Coaching with Jen

    Imagine that it’s springtime and you are standing in your garden. You are holding a cup of coffee and letting your eyes wander through your beds. The birds are cheerfully chatting and the whole scene is bright with new life. You start to think about trying something new in your garden this season. Curiosity takes…

  • Community Gardens and Why They Matter

    A new year brings new opportunities! Have you ever volunteered at a community garden? It is one of our favorite things to do. This is a space where people, plants, animals, and microorganisms can thrive together. It’s also an opportunity for like-minded people to connect and share what brings them joy and meaning.  What is…

  • Winter Flower Feature: Echinacea (Coneflower)

    In choosing which flower to feature this winter, we didn’t have to dig very far back in the archives. Our recent blog, “Love Letter from the Birds,” highlights echinacea’s relationship with the birds. In this post, however, we are focusing on the design elements that echinacea adds to a winter garden, as well as how…

  • Gift Giving

    The bells are jingling, the frost is creeping, and the holidays are upon us! We are beginning to gather gifts for our loved ones, which has sparked some thinking about what it means to give.  When you give a gift to someone, it’s no longer yours. You’re releasing any hold you have over it, even…

  • Kindred Spirits

    Over and over, we find that gardening and volunteering in gardens bring kindred spirits together. When we take time to be in this space and focus on the treasures of the earth, we experience a collective harmony.  I (Jen, owner of MTG) found a kindred spirit in a woman named Claire. She is a gardener…