Last fall, I put together The Garden Planner and Design Workshop and a PDF companion. This is a good thumbnail guidance for planning your space. Right now, I am using this framework as a guide to planning a food forest in an unkempt area beside The Garden For Ability. This is a fairly small space, but bigger than The Garden For Ability, and is often used by wildlife and the homeless in the area. It is time to quietly make some changes to the area for the benefit of the community. Follow along this winter as I study, put the plans and resources in place, and begin to work to bring balance to a space that has been a problem. Here is the second video.

With the holidays coming up fast, many of us are anticipating feasts, comfort food, and gatherings. I grew up with the traditional idea of "women folk" slaving for days to create the perfect feast for everyone to enjoy, then doing the clean up so that others could enjoy the day. I think that it is time to turn this on its head. Not the feast. Not the gathering. The idea of spending so much time to create comfort that she gets to do the work to watch others enjoy. That is what Home Grown Feast is all about. Keep the feast and enjoy it at the same time. I am going to share some of my favorite tricks and hacks that help me create the joy and comfort and short circuit the parts that chew up time for the sole purpose of meeting expectations. Better yet, I do it with base ingredients and on a tight budget. Come and join me live on Saturday, November 21. Check the calendar for the time and link. Bring your favorite hack and the tradition that is there just because it is an expectation. Let's find the short cuts together. Saturday, November 21 at 2pm Eastern.

As I am finishing up The Garden For Ability, I am starting the design work on my next major project. I am looking at encouraging a food forest to supplement the Tiny Gardens and the Container Gardens that are the main food and herb growing areas here. Take a tour with me as I assess the area. The commons used to be an abundant resource for everyone. Where can you encourage a public food source in your area? What plans can you pull together? The Garden Planner and Design Workshop is in the Classroom to help you get started.

The edited version of the Radish Plant Profile is now in the classroom. You will find it and all of the Vegetable Plant Profiles in The Vegetable Plant Profile section of the classroom.

The work is done in the area where the gas line work was done. Now I wait until spring to see what comes back and adjust the plan. Here is the walk through. When life throws you a curve ball, how do you create abundance? How has it affected your resilience?