Greetings Dear Friends,

My intention in creating this website is to tell the story of my work in our community and give thanks to the living world that brought these projects to life. May this online space be a source of inspiration to you, providing resources and guidance to joyfully participate in the regeneration of life on our planet and in your community.

There are many reasons to start a garden. To have food and medicine outside your door is a gift, but the greatest gift comes when we allow the living world not just onto the land we live on, but into our hearts. The garden is a place to remember. 

Somewhere along the way I forgot. For much of my early life my attention was focused on the world of human things. I grew up in a busy, tropical urban environment with very little awareness of the more-than-human world. 

This inability to see clearly began to weigh on me, without my knowing at first, then gradually building, making its presence deeply known and felt. In my 20th year of life I experienced my first real taste of darkness, and found myself struggling to find a reason to continue living.

There are many words to describe what I experienced, and I know I am not alone in this feeling. It is often called depression, anxiety, despair. But the phrase that rings most true is one from philosopher Charles Eisenstein, “mutiny of the soul”. Without my knowing at the time, an initiation process had begun to help me reassess the story of separation that kept me from fully feeling a part of life on our planet.

Today I am often asked the question of how I came to be the way I am. How I came to love what I love and share what I have come to know with such excitement, appreciation, and genuine amazement. My answer is - through the connection and reciprocity I feel with the living world.

I now find myself here to connect the dots and help us remember. To guide you to the plant already growing in your backyard that you didn’t know you could eat, to lend tools and tips in garden design, and be a friend amidst our inner and outer regeneration process as people living on our planet at this time.

If you've found yourself here on this page looking to start a garden and you aren’t sure where to begin, remember - you have everything you already need in this very moment. All can be done from right where you are. I am simply here to help provide what Thich Nhat Hanh describes as “fresh eyes”. When we can see with fresh eyes and hearts, we can’t help but fall in love.

When this love enters you, the love of the living world and the shedding of the story that caused you to believe you were separate from it, an opening occurs. It requires little effort, there is a term in Zen Buddhism to describe it – wu wei. “Doing without doing”. By allowing the “weed” to grow you find it contains just the medicine you need.

My invitation to you is to open a space, whatever that may be - backyard, side ally, city swale, open lot, inner landscape – to our living world, and witness the gifts that arise from this action of great trust and reciprocity.

Love,

Megan