Gardening, Self Improvement

Mother-Daughter Time – Gardening and Inspiration to Live Life to the Fullest

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My daughter Shauna and I were having a conversation about yoga last night which reminded me of Tao – the 96 year old that does yoga and has started ballroom dancing, so I showed her the video on Youtube, which brought tears to her eyes because Tao has such a beautiful spirit and is living life to the fullest. We are both inspired to live like her – with joy, positivity and following our passions for a life well-lived.

Before this, we had spent a couple hours preparing a garden bed for planting.  She brought her bunny Thumper over, who is usually an indoor bunny.  He was digging in the dirt, exploring as far as he could go on his leash and just having a good time.

Being outside was good for all of us.  It was a beautiful sunny Spring day here in the Pacific Northwest on St. Patrick’s day.  I used to be an avid gardener but for the past 10 years I’ve been so busy trying to make a living that I haven’t done a lot of gardening.  This year, Shauna wants to grow things so on top of the joy of gardening, I get to spend time with her.  She lives in an apartment, so is coming over here to garden with me in my yard.  What a nice push to find time to do it.

The smell of the soil, seeing the happy bunny, good conversation, dreams of sipping lemonade in a yard brimming with beautiful growing things, family time, garden plans.  It made for a really great day.

I’ll be blogging about our experiences and how the garden is coming along.  So far, we have about a 5′ x 5′ area weeded and ready for planting and a compost pile started from all the weeds we pulled.  Shauna and I used to garden together when she was a little girl; she is now 27.  I’m very excited to see what we create together.  She brought over a bunch of seed packets since she found a sale at Walmart for .20 cent per packet.  Most are flowers – some mixes for attracting butterflies and hummingbirds, but there’s also cucumber, cantaloupe, spinach and a few other edibles.  I have a couple of sage plants given to me by a friend.

Back when I spent a lot of time gardening, I grew pretty much everything – herbs, fruit, vegetables and flowers.  I dried herbs for teas, froze excess vegetables, always had a vase of fresh flowers in the house, made things like lemon balm bread, studied herbs and their remedies, did companion planting, had a huge collection of bearded iris, collected seeds and sold them online, wrote about gardening, made compost, the list goes on.  Back then I was following my passions and my goal is to get back to that.

Both Shauna and I are in the process of positive change and we are both heading towards a more wholesome way of living.  How lucky we are to have each other and to inspire each other along the way.

~ Monica

Are you gardening this year?  If so, what are you growing?  What inspires you?  Would love to hear any and all of your comments!  Thank-you for reading!

~ Monica

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The pandemic brought a lot of awareness to me about climate change, food shortages, how quickly our hospitals could colapse and more. This has sent me on a mission of becoming self-sustainable, empowered and working to help heal the earth. That is what the focus of this blog has become. The main way I'm working at this is through building a food forest and documenting as much as possible in hopes to inspire others. The more of us that do this, the more it will help heal the earth. When we buy produce from the grocery store, it was grown through monoculture, and that leads to use of chemicals that goes onto our food and into our planet, destroying soil. If we grow our own through permaculture (a food forest), we give the soil health. We also give ourselves health by growing organic foods and herbs that contribute to our health. There's a lot more to this, but this touches the surface. I'm only one year into this but my food forest is growing. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.

18 thoughts on “Mother-Daughter Time – Gardening and Inspiration to Live Life to the Fullest”

  1. This post is so uplifting. I felt like I was in the garden too. I always feel good when I put a foot on my grandad’s urban little farm. I don’t know anything technical about it, but I enjoy the process, it’s like activating a secret portal to travel within ourselves, to our most human part. It can be quite magical 😊 I look forward to read your gardening adventures together 👩🏼‍🌾👩🏼‍🌾

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