I can't help but smile when I think about our garden. What a labor of love! The labor is in all. the. dirt. Filling up my car twice a year, all over my girls and my shoes and my hair. Muscles always sore from bending, pulling, digging and who knows why. Harving. So much to har vest- and then what! So much to made and do and feed and water. Never ending chores I bribe away with ice cream and quarters while chickens squawk. How is it that I've done all I have in life and wind up back in the dirt like a child. I like it though.

Love love being outside in the sunshine sweating with dirt in my toes. Watching the seasons in the colors flowers turn. Nurturing them as they grow. As they teach my family lessons in rest and food and effortless joy. Loud joy in big gasps of every color, shape and size waving and dancing in the wind with my children.

Anyway. We (we as in my husband, my girls, my chickens and I) grow a wide variety of vegetables and flowers on our little quarter plot in Spring Valley. We grow just about all our fruit and vegetables on this little spot as well as about 20 chickens. We also grow about twenty five to fifty percent of the flowers for Nurture Flora Co. It a good spot to call my office and home.

You can see a lot from our gardens by visiting my Instagram.