425. Garden Variety | Christy Wilhelmi | Gardenerd | Los Angeles, CA

Haha! IDK what to really call this episode. TMI? Inspiration? RAW me? But if you're new to the show Jackie Marie Beyer the host is also an artist. And I am working (like for over 25 years now...) on a book called Dreams Do Come True and another on traveling around Paris. Something I dreamed about forever and really never thought would happen. I have led an amazing life. I have had basically all of my dreams come true and have felt that way since the very first step I took into Mikes kitchen all those years ago back in 1992! I knew I was home. I wanted to move to Montana since I was in 3rd grade and have been here since I was 21. How many people meet their husband on a mountain side? It hasn't always been easy, I have had more then my fair share of challenges, and I've been a member of the working poor for most of my adult life. But I've also had amazing experiences and when I got to go to Paris in 2016 I basically kicked my bucket list. Mike and I never thought we'd dig a well, but we did in 2013 after selling a small investment property we bought when I was teaching on the east side and he improved. And so my rant today is just me reaching out to you and encouraging you to believe you can do anything you really set your mind to. And let me know if I can do anything for you. 2013 was the summer I smiled! 2020 has already started out so good I am positive it will be the year I smiled!Here's to an awesome new Decade everyone!You are more then welcome to email me at OrganicGardenerPodcast@gmail.com and I will answer as soon as possible. Or you can post in the Organic Gardener Facebook Group or message me or Mike on Facebook.The Organic Oasis Master Class Starts Friday, January 24th and ends Friday, February 21st! Get in first and you’ll have your workbook and journals before the first class! This $97 course can be had for $75.00 if you order before the 24th!Join today!This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

18 Jan 202025min

Do you want to save time in your garden?Do you want to grow a garden full of healthy vegetables but feel you don’t have time? Do you struggle to get all the weeds pulled and watering done in the heat of summer when your friends are all headed to the lake? Are you tired of paying the high cost of organic vegetables in the store but struggle to grow your own?Well, our 2020 Garden Goals Challenge will help you find success in your garden journey!SYLLABUSDay One - Brainstorm - No Dream is Too BigDay Two - Make A PlanDay Three - Create a SMART GoalDay Four - Research TimeDay Five - Get OrganizedDay Six - Photo Time - the Before shotDay Seven - ReflectDay Eight - VisualizeImagine anything is possible!This is a great place to promote our blank garden journal!My Garden JournalThe acronym S.M.A.R.T stands forStrategicMeasurableAttainableRelevantTime-boundFor each of your goals you are going to need to create a SMART strategy. Today we are just going to start with your most important goal you want to complete in 2020.SmartGoalWhyLet’s say your SMART goal is to plant a bed of lettuce every week for the first 2 months of spring. It’s strategic because you want to eat healthy lettuce while it’s growing before it get’s too hot and bolts in the middle of summer. It’s measurable because you can schedule out plantings each Saturday morning perhaps starting in March through the end of April. It’s attainable because by the end of March you should be able to get lettuce seeds started. And if you can’t you can always adjust your dates. It’s relevant because you like lettuce. It’s time bound because it will start in April and end in May.This might seem like a lengthy process but if you really want to achieve your goals and not just say, I’m gonna put in a garden this year, it’s much more likely to be successful.Another example of a smart goal might be you want to build 2 new deep beds by Spring growing season.Strategic - deep beds can add convenience, more space for planting, and organization to your garden.Measurable - you have decided you want 2 new beds.Attainable - you can create beds out of recycled materials or purchase new wood if needed.Relevant - deep beds help grow nutritious food.Time-bound - you can give yourself a specific deadline before June 20th the first of Summer. If you need more help with your S.M.A.R.T goals let me know. You are more then welcome to email me at OrganicGardenerPodcast@gmail.com and I will answer as soon as possible. Or you can post in the Organic Gardener Facebook Group or message me or Mike on Facebook.<a...

15 Jan 202011min

Do you want to save time in your garden?Do you want to grow a garden full of healthy vegetables but feel you don’t have time? Do you struggle to get all the weeds pulled and watering done in the heat of summer when your friends are all headed to the lake? Are you tired of paying the high cost of organic vegetables in the store but struggle to grow your own?Well, our 2020 Garden Goals Challenge will help you find success in your garden journey!SYLLABUSDay One - Brainstorm - No Dream is Too BigDay Two - Make A PlanDay Three - Create a SMART GoalDay Four - Research TimeDay Five - Get OrganizedDay Six - Photo Time - the Before shotDay Seven - ReflectDay Eight - VisualizeImagine anything is possible!This is a great place to promote our blank garden journal!My Garden Journal Garden Journal and Data Keeper DAY 2: MAKE A PLANLet’s take your list and start to define a strategy. The first step is to organize and prioritize your goals. I like to start with the calendar and put my goals into chronological order.A general guess for now is fine. We’ll get to the details down the line.Which ones can you start now?Which ones do you need to wait until the ground thaws?Which ones do you need supplies for?Which ones do you have to accomplish this year?A secret I have learned about successful gardening is that you should start with your harvest date? When do you want to be done? If you’re working on a landscape when do you want to be able to enjoy it? If you are planting vegetables when would you be harvesting? Do you have a list of seeds you want plant? The Organic Oasis Master Class Starts Friday, January 24th and ends Friday, February 21st! Get in first and you'll have your workbook and journals before the first class! This $97 course can be had for $75.00 if you order before the 24th! Join today!This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

14 Jan 202010min

Do you want to save time in your garden?Do you want to grow a garden full of healthy vegetables but feel you don’t have time? Do you struggle to get all the weeds pulled and watering done in the heat of summer when your friends are all headed to the lake? Are you tired of paying the high cost of organic vegetables in the store but struggle to grow your own?Well, our 2020 Garden Goals Challenge will help you find success in your garden journey!SYLLABUSDay One - Brainstorm - No Dream is Too BigDay Two - Make A PlanDay Three - Create a SMART GoalDay Four - Research TimeDay Five - Get OrganizedDay Six - Photo Time - the Before shotDay Seven - ReflectDay Eight - VisualizeImagine anything is possible!This is a great place to promote our blank garden journal!My Garden Journal Garden Journal and Data KeeperMake a list of all your garden dreams! Don't leave anything out! Do you want a pond with a water fountain in the middle?An orchard full of fruit trees?A root cellar to store your produce come winter?A green house to help extend your season?A place to market your extra produce?A fence to keep the deer out?A chicken tractor?Growing sweet potatoes?Ordering some heirloom seeds?Pollinator plants to attract bees and butterflies?Beehives full of honey?Deep beds full of healthy nutritious broccoli, tomatoes and fresh lettuce?An earth friendly landscape your puppy can run around on without a worry?Today I want you to start your list of gardening dreams!The Organic Oasis Master Class Starts Friday, January 24th and ends Friday, February 21st! Get in first and you'll have your workbook and journals before the first class! This $97 course can be had for $75.00 if you order before the 24th! Join today!This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

13 Jan 202024min

1. Tell us a little about yourself.My name is Michelle Lipp and I am an early childhood educator turned play-at-home mom of three kids and one renegade garden. In the classroom, I was infamously known as the teacher who went outside no matter what.I’ve taught in 5 states with varying climates and firmly believe in the Scandanavian proverb that there is no bad weather, just inappropriate clothing.When my eldest son was in his first year of preschool, his principal (and my former supervisor) remarked that my kids must always get to play outside. I realized that I had become an indoor parent--that even though I had no issue dressing and undressing a dozen children belonging to other people to get them out into the fresh air, I had become complacent at doing so with my own.Outdoor play and nature experiences are so integral to healthy bodies and minds and so vital to early development.Children learn to sit still by moving around and the great outdoors is an ideal location for this. I needed to get my family (and myself) back outside and I needed a way to be accountable for that goal so just over a year ago at the end of winter, 2018, I founded a local nature based meetup group for families and professionals working with children to gather at local parks, playgrounds and nature spaces. I call my group Park n’Play. I live in the Richmond, VA area and our climate is fairly temperate. My group runs from the end of winter through the fall, although it is my goal to eventually have it be a year-round endeavor. I firmly believe that nature play and experience should be accessible to all regardless of age, ability, geographic location and socioeconomic status.For that reason, I run my meetups free of charge and I am incredibly fortunate to live in an area with amazing public parks and nature spaces. I arrive with a nature-based or outdoor-friendly activity geared toward children of mixed ages and adults, a small, traveling nature-based library with relevant books for children and adults and more than anything else, it’s an opportunity to be outdoors together as a community and reap the benefits of fresh air and vitamin D. 2. Tell me about your first gardening experience? I grew up when it was still OK to toss your kids out in the fenced in suburban backyard to play all day.My mother, also an early childhood educator, gardened in our backyard. She had a vegetable garden, a flower bed and my sister and I had our own small plot to tend to. I was a notoriously picky eater who would munch raw chives straight from the whiskey barrel they were growing in and I am pretty sure I was covered in mud and smelled like onions at least until the age of 8.The garden was a space for imaginative play, mud pies, digging up worms, picking cucumbers that were taller than I was and it was also a place where it was OK to fail, to fall and skin your knee and to learn the hard way that you can’t bring your pet goldfish back inside three days after his funeral.3. How did you learn how to garden organically?Adulthood and Parenthood are full of choices and many times we live in a society with option overload.In an ideal world, I would choose only organic produce and buy completely local and garden in a space that is fully free of chemical pesticides. My family currently lives in a rented property and our yard is semi-public and shared. Our property management uses lawn treatments I am not a fan of, so I choose to container garden and grow our produce in a raised bed table. Organic gardening is something I learned mainly by default....

12 Jan 20201h 19min

Announcing the winner of the Family Garden Plan Book and if you didn't win don't forget to preorder today because it is released tomorrow and you want to get all the great bonuses that come with this book! I ordered a copy for me just for the bonuses. You can order a copy at https://melissaknorris.com/familygardenplan/This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

6 Jan 20205min

Here's a replay of my very first interview with the amazing Patti Armbrister! Get ready to join the Patti Armbrister Fan Club coming soon!This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

6 Jan 20201h 28min

What's your preference?Do you like long show notes that transcribe the full episode or do you like shorter versions? I made 2 copies of Golden Seeds From Melissa K. Norris. One I actually took notes by hand, 13 pages worth and then I typed them off. The other I just transcribed while listening. Which is your preference or do you just like to read it on the website? Would you like a printed copy delivered to your home each month?Golden Seeds from Melissa Norris ShortGolden Seeds from Melissa Norris Long - Full Transcript I'd love to know which you like better if you cold just hit reply and say long, short or website I'd really appreciate it!Don't forget to sign up to Win a copy of Melisa’s New Book Here and leave her a 5-star review when you're done reading it! Happy New Year!This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

1 Jan 20201h 17min