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11 Mar 2022
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Garden Things That Aren’t Garden Things #4

I’ve brought back the Garden Things That Aren’t Garden Things series for you! It’s a monthly recap of things that are very garden-inspired, but may not really be used for the garden.

Recently, I’ve been loving these six things, and want to tell you all about them.

Six Garden-inspired Things

My thoughts on each:

1. Garden Spells is a fictional book that a dear from of mine sent me in the mail – what a surprise! It’s very Practical Magic-esque and I read it in two days. Great beach read for the gardener, Trigger warning for anyone sensitive to mild mention of domestic violence.

2. Saving Grace is another recommendation from a friend, and who doesn’t love an old British film?! It’s about a widow who needs to make money and uses her skills for botany to do so …


3. Gua Sha is new to me, but for a few weeks, I have been practicing it! It’s an ancient Chinese practice of massaging your face to reduce inflammation, tension, etc. I have a little handout that guides how I use my stone and feel like it completely destresses me. It’s best used after applying a favorite face serum or oil. A nightly self-care treat!


4. Hattie Hazel Tomato Leaf Soy Candle is my new scent! It’s in the kitchen and adds an earthy yet clean aroma to the house. Bonus, my Aunt Deb makes them! Perfect for welcoming in Spring with tomatoes just barely being ready for soil.


5. Sandgrens Clogs are the clogs that brought me to tears. I was gifted a pair after coveting them for years! They are so nostalgic for me, as my mom used to wear clogs. They’re comfortable and so cute with anything from Levi’s to a floral dress. These are a new staple and I adore them.


6. Greens First Original – 15 Count Travel Packets I have been looking for greens (there are tons of companies all over Instagram promoting their version) and wanted something tried and true. My neighbor is a detox and nutrition queen and recommended these! I actually love the classic mint flavor which sounds so bizarre, but delicious! We ordered a sample box before committing to a big jug.

I hope you find some inspiration here, and if you need recommendations for any books specifically, There is a great list of

fictional garden books HERE.

– This post contains some affiliate links, but the opinions are all my own –

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Perhaps they’ll look back and giggle together about how mom made them sing a song to an Elderberry bush as a gift of reciprocity when we had nothing else. Or maybe they’ll long for the sweet days with sticky hands from pulling needles off rosemary stems, and returning worms to their dirt homes. Maybe they’ll resent how much they “had to garden” as teenagers, rediscovering it a decade later, much like my own journey. No matter the destination, the moments when we’re out adventuring together talking about wild fennel and cactus flowers, treasuring the perfect-heighted walking stick and a Turkey vulture feather - those are the moments when my soul sighs with contentment and I know that I have done enough. #raisethemwild #wildandfreechildren #motherhoodrising #foraging
Perhaps they’ll look back and giggle together about how mom made them sing a song to an Elderberry bush as a gift of reciprocity when we had nothing else. Or maybe they’ll long for the sweet days with sticky hands from pulling needles off rosemary stems, and returning worms to their dirt homes. Maybe they’ll resent how much they “had to garden” as teenagers, rediscovering it a decade later, much like my own journey. No matter the destination, the moments when we’re out adventuring together talking about wild fennel and cactus flowers, treasuring the perfect-heighted walking stick and a Turkey vulture feather - those are the moments when my soul sighs with contentment and I know that I have done enough. #raisethemwild #wildandfreechildren #motherhoodrising #foraging
Perhaps they’ll look back and giggle together about how mom made them sing a song to an Elderberry bush as a gift of reciprocity when we had nothing else. Or maybe they’ll long for the sweet days with sticky hands from pulling needles off rosemary stems, and returning worms to their dirt homes. Maybe they’ll resent how much they “had to garden” as teenagers, rediscovering it a decade later, much like my own journey. No matter the destination, the moments when we’re out adventuring together talking about wild fennel and cactus flowers, treasuring the perfect-heighted walking stick and a Turkey vulture feather - those are the moments when my soul sighs with contentment and I know that I have done enough. #raisethemwild #wildandfreechildren #motherhoodrising #foraging
Perhaps they’ll look back and giggle together about how mom made them sing a song to an Elderberry bush as a gift of reciprocity when we had nothing else. Or maybe they’ll long for the sweet days with sticky hands from pulling needles off rosemary stems, and returning worms to their dirt homes. Maybe they’ll resent how much they “had to garden” as teenagers, rediscovering it a decade later, much like my own journey. No matter the destination, the moments when we’re out adventuring together talking about wild fennel and cactus flowers, treasuring the perfect-heighted walking stick and a Turkey vulture feather - those are the moments when my soul sighs with contentment and I know that I have done enough. #raisethemwild #wildandfreechildren #motherhoodrising #foraging
Perhaps they’ll look back and giggle together about how mom made them sing a song to an Elderberry bush as a gift of reciprocity when we had nothing else. Or maybe they’ll long for the sweet days with sticky hands from pulling needles off rosemary stems, and returning worms to their dirt homes. Maybe they’ll resent how much they “had to garden” as teenagers, rediscovering it a decade later, much like my own journey. No matter the destination, the moments when we’re out adventuring together talking about wild fennel and cactus flowers, treasuring the perfect-heighted walking stick and a Turkey vulture feather - those are the moments when my soul sighs with contentment and I know that I have done enough. #raisethemwild #wildandfreechildren #motherhoodrising #foraging
Perhaps they’ll look back and giggle together about how mom made them sing a song to an Elderberry bush as a gift of reciprocity when we had nothing else. Or maybe they’ll long for the sweet days with sticky hands from pulling needles off rosemary stems, and returning worms to their dirt homes. Maybe they’ll resent how much they “had to garden” as teenagers, rediscovering it a decade later, much like my own journey. No matter the destination, the moments when we’re out adventuring together talking about wild fennel and cactus flowers, treasuring the perfect-heighted walking stick and a Turkey vulture feather - those are the moments when my soul sighs with contentment and I know that I have done enough. #raisethemwild #wildandfreechildren #motherhoodrising #foraging
Perhaps they’ll look back and giggle together about how mom made them sing a song to an Elderberry bush as a gift of reciprocity when we had nothing else. Or maybe they’ll long for the sweet days with sticky hands from pulling needles off rosemary stems, and returning worms to their dirt homes. Maybe they’ll resent how much they “had to garden” as teenagers, rediscovering it a decade later, much like my own journey. No matter the destination, the moments when we’re out adventuring together talking about wild fennel and cactus flowers, treasuring the perfect-heighted walking stick and a Turkey vulture feather - those are the moments when my soul sighs with contentment and I know that I have done enough. #raisethemwild #wildandfreechildren #motherhoodrising #foraging
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Perhaps they’ll look back and giggle together about how mom made them sing a song to an Elderberry bush as a gift of reciprocity when we had nothing else.

Or maybe they’ll long for the sweet days with sticky hands from pulling needles off rosemary stems, and returning worms to their dirt homes.

Maybe they’ll resent how much they “had to garden” as teenagers, rediscovering it a decade later, much like my own journey.

No matter the destination, the moments when we’re out adventuring together talking about wild fennel and cactus flowers, treasuring the perfect-heighted walking stick and a Turkey vulture feather – those are the moments when my soul sighs with contentment and I know that I have done enough.

#raisethemwild #wildandfreechildren #motherhoodrising #foraging

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Making final moves💧Got the last piece for my bed irrigation today! Why water with soaker hoses, you ask? I’ll tell you. They’re flexible, moveable, controllable, and hide well. I love hand watering too, but this is much more of a long term and steady choice. Linked in stories and highlights AND on the blog for you. But bookmark this puppy so you don’t forget. These are Linex brand. I’ve used them before (hence these photos) and with clients! Love love. #irrigation #soakerhose #gardendesign #kitchengarden #gardenersofinstagram
Making final moves💧Got the last piece for my bed irrigation today! Why water with soaker hoses, you ask? I’ll tell you. They’re flexible, moveable, controllable, and hide well. I love hand watering too, but this is much more of a long term and steady choice. Linked in stories and highlights AND on the blog for you. But bookmark this puppy so you don’t forget. These are Linex brand. I’ve used them before (hence these photos) and with clients! Love love. #irrigation #soakerhose #gardendesign #kitchengarden #gardenersofinstagram
Making final moves💧Got the last piece for my bed irrigation today! Why water with soaker hoses, you ask? I’ll tell you. They’re flexible, moveable, controllable, and hide well. I love hand watering too, but this is much more of a long term and steady choice. Linked in stories and highlights AND on the blog for you. But bookmark this puppy so you don’t forget. These are Linex brand. I’ve used them before (hence these photos) and with clients! Love love. #irrigation #soakerhose #gardendesign #kitchengarden #gardenersofinstagram
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Making final moves💧Got the last piece for my bed irrigation today!

Why water with soaker hoses, you ask? I’ll tell you.

They’re flexible, moveable, controllable, and hide well.

I love hand watering too, but this is much more of a long term and steady choice.

Linked in stories and highlights AND on the blog for you. But bookmark this puppy so you don’t forget. These are Linex brand.

I’ve used them before (hence these photos) and with clients! Love love.

#irrigation #soakerhose #gardendesign #kitchengarden #gardenersofinstagram

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I’m so proud of the pledges that I’ve made. Going out on a limb for the environment, is never a mistake. And in the journey for safer, cleaner, better, I’ve found amazing people on a similar mission. #ad @growbughut is a company that creates nutrients (like vitamins) for plants. They actually found a way to give our plants and soil antioxidants and good bacteria to help our plants actually uptake the nutrients they need (like nitrogen and phosphorus). Not a fertilizer. Not toxic. Safe for kids and pets! Safe for planet earth. #organicgardening #growbughut #sustainability #gardentips
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I’m so proud of the pledges that I’ve made. Going out on a limb for the environment, is never a mistake.

And in the journey for safer, cleaner, better, I’ve found amazing people on a similar mission.

#ad @growbughut is a company that creates nutrients (like vitamins) for plants. They actually found a way to give our plants and soil antioxidants and good bacteria to help our plants actually uptake the nutrients they need (like nitrogen and phosphorus).

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Nobody prepares you for what the destination of doing *what you love* and being present with *who you love* is like. I thought “finding my passion” or uncovering my calling was the hard part. No no. It’s managing life in the always wobbly balance of wanting to do many things fully and focused all at once. It’s the biggest treasure of my life, this grappling. But it’s still a tango of dips and marches, some graceful, some stomach lurching. A beautiful dance nonetheless. {swipe to see some fave captures} #motherhoodthroughinstagram #motherhoodunplugged #mompreneur #raisethemwild #gardenersofinstagram #gardenersworld 📸: @kamiarant
Nobody prepares you for what the destination of doing *what you love* and being present with *who you love* is like. I thought “finding my passion” or uncovering my calling was the hard part. No no. It’s managing life in the always wobbly balance of wanting to do many things fully and focused all at once. It’s the biggest treasure of my life, this grappling. But it’s still a tango of dips and marches, some graceful, some stomach lurching. A beautiful dance nonetheless. {swipe to see some fave captures} #motherhoodthroughinstagram #motherhoodunplugged #mompreneur #raisethemwild #gardenersofinstagram #gardenersworld 📸: @kamiarant
Nobody prepares you for what the destination of doing *what you love* and being present with *who you love* is like. I thought “finding my passion” or uncovering my calling was the hard part. No no. It’s managing life in the always wobbly balance of wanting to do many things fully and focused all at once. It’s the biggest treasure of my life, this grappling. But it’s still a tango of dips and marches, some graceful, some stomach lurching. A beautiful dance nonetheless. {swipe to see some fave captures} #motherhoodthroughinstagram #motherhoodunplugged #mompreneur #raisethemwild #gardenersofinstagram #gardenersworld 📸: @kamiarant
Nobody prepares you for what the destination of doing *what you love* and being present with *who you love* is like. I thought “finding my passion” or uncovering my calling was the hard part. No no. It’s managing life in the always wobbly balance of wanting to do many things fully and focused all at once. It’s the biggest treasure of my life, this grappling. But it’s still a tango of dips and marches, some graceful, some stomach lurching. A beautiful dance nonetheless. {swipe to see some fave captures} #motherhoodthroughinstagram #motherhoodunplugged #mompreneur #raisethemwild #gardenersofinstagram #gardenersworld 📸: @kamiarant
Nobody prepares you for what the destination of doing *what you love* and being present with *who you love* is like. I thought “finding my passion” or uncovering my calling was the hard part. No no. It’s managing life in the always wobbly balance of wanting to do many things fully and focused all at once. It’s the biggest treasure of my life, this grappling. But it’s still a tango of dips and marches, some graceful, some stomach lurching. A beautiful dance nonetheless. {swipe to see some fave captures} #motherhoodthroughinstagram #motherhoodunplugged #mompreneur #raisethemwild #gardenersofinstagram #gardenersworld 📸: @kamiarant
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Nobody prepares you for what the destination of doing *what you love* and being present with *who you love* is like.

I thought “finding my passion” or uncovering my calling was the hard part.

No no. It’s managing life in the always wobbly balance of wanting to do many things fully and focused all at once.

It’s the biggest treasure of my life, this grappling. But it’s still a tango of dips and marches, some graceful, some stomach lurching. A beautiful dance nonetheless.

{swipe to see some fave captures}

#motherhoodthroughinstagram #motherhoodunplugged #mompreneur #raisethemwild #gardenersofinstagram #gardenersworld

📸: @kamiarant

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