Budget a barrier? Start a native garden for $20 or less . Click here to get the workshop.
Sure, I could tell you why you should start a native garden. I have a whoooole laundry list of reasons. But if your reason for doing it isn’t personalized and intuitive, then it’s not going to stick. That’s why the first step is to set personalized, achievable native gardening goals. Setting a native gardening goal…
I was sitting on my front steps on a hot June afternoon, eating strawberry yogurt popsicles with my one-year-old daughter. It was part of our daily summer ritual: head outside, eat a pop, wait for Dad to come home from work, and greet him in the front yard. It was the cutest little “young family…
Before you go too crazy spending money and making plans for your garden this year, I wanted to let you in on a secret: You don’t actually have to plant a single thing to create wildlife habitat in your yard. It’s true! There are at least 5 ways to restore your local ecosystem that won’t…
This might be an unpopular opinion, but here’s my hot take on Valentine’s Day: It’s sweet and all, but it’s also a bit of a grind. The commercialization of a day meant to celebrate love and connection makes the gestures – chocolate, cards, flowers, fancy dinners – feel more performative than genuine. Not to mention:…
You’ve been white-knuckling each day during your ungodly work commute, then shuttling your kids around to martial arts practice, tennis, and playdates. And you make dinner each night while also trying to enjoy a healthy bond with your also-overwhelmed partner. Meanwhile, you see the headlines about climate change, biodiversity loss, and a murky environmental future…
You Don’t Need a Huge Landscape to Matter I recently attended a screening of Roots So Deep, an inspiring docu-series about a regenerative farming practice called AMP grazing, and its potential for global climate change mitigation. I want to distill my biggest takeaways from the screening for you and help translate big ideas into family-scale…
I’m settled in at my desk with a hot mug of tea, a muffin, and a notebook. I just lit a candle, and I even have a flannel blanket on my lap, too. I’m about to get started on the coziest winter activity I can imagine. Am I about to journal? Make a vision board?…
Like many people new to native plant gardening for beginners, I had to reconcile my big garden fantasies with the reality of limited time, energy, and mental bandwidth. I’ve had to be honest with myself about the season of life I’m in (single-income family with a preschooler) and how that impacts the time and energy…
If you’ve been wanting to start a native garden but keep thinking…
You’re not alone. Most people assume they need hundreds of dollars and a full yard makeover to begin.
You don’t.
In this short, beginner-friendly workshop, I’ll walk you through exactly how to start a simple native garden for around $20 – using a realistic, low-pressure approach that actually works in a busy, real-life yard.