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04/06/2026

04/05/2026

04/02/2026

🌝Happy Full Pink Moon! 🐸 Look up and listen for the chorus of peepers out celebrating too! 🍄The Full Moon in April is known as the Pink Moon (from the pink phlox flowers that bloom in the early spring). Other names for this Full Moon include Sprouting Grass Moon, Fish Moon, Hare Moon, and the Old English/Anglo-Saxon name is Egg Moon. It is also known as the Paschal Moon because it is used to calculate the date for Easter.

04/01/2026

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t h e gardener is always a futurist. 🌿what does it mean to be optimistic right now? not naively, not performatively — but with clear eyes and dirty hands. this earth month, we’re planting 4 seeds worth growing. swipe to tend to the future.

03/30/2026

This retired dentist’s Richmond backyard is overflowing with flowers—and she shares the bounty with her entire community. See how Kit Sullivan turned her hobby garden into a colorful oasis full of pass-along plants: bit.ly/45IHPXw

03/27/2026

03/23/2026

New film released today. Link in comments.

At six years old, Angelina packed a lunch and moved into the forest.

She settled beneath a bent birch tree and felt something most of us lose early in life – a deep, unquestioned belonging to the living world.

Today, Angelina is a gardener, herbalist and teacher. At a biodynamic kindergarten/farm in Sweden, she works as the gardener, where children help plant and harvest the food they eat. She also leads year-long nature courses, where students learn to navigate by the stars, gather wild plants and take in the natural world with all their senses.

“Keeper of the Yarrow” is a portrait of a woman who never severed her bond with the living world – and who carries forward a lineage of plant knowledge shaped by migration, war and resilience.

If you’ve ever felt that something in modern life is missing, this story may feel like coming home.

03/20/2026

🌞Happy Spring Equinox Friends!🐸🌱🪻☘️🐞🐛🪺
"Solstices and equinoxes mark the four movements in a celestial score. The older I get, the more I aspire to tap into the symphonic song of nature. To harmonize with the flow of seasons, the cycles in our landscapes, and the larger universe.
Spring or vernal equinox signals the beginning of spring in the northern hemisphere, marking the passage of the Sun across the celestial equator, as it travels from south to north. At the equinox (from the Latin aequus, “equal,” and nox, “night” - generally on the 20th or 21st of March), Earth’s northern and southern hemispheres are receiving the Sun’s rays equally, and night and day are nearly equal in length.

The spring equinox ushers in a long-awaited gardening season. For me, it means pruning orchard trees and roses, building wattle from the spoils, and listening to spring peepers sing out from vernal pools in the night. It’s watching rhubarb and spring bulbs push up through the leaf litter. Using the first cool, sunny days to work up a sweat repairing stone walls and filling garden beds with the compost that winter turned to soil. Planting the heartiest of cold-weather crops—mache, arugula, spinach, borage, calendula, kale, collards, cabbage, parsnip, turnip, radish—to ensure a delicious spring follows. Making teas and salads from the first perennials and self-sowing greens. Using the growing hours of sun and heat to follow the season and plant more tender annuals when they will succeed.

This equinox also means vestiges of the ancient rites of spring, rebirth, and renewal celebrating the goddess Eostre, Passover, and Easter—holidays traditions that make good use of the abundance of early spring herbs, eggs, and dairy.
Living in tune with the seasons helps bring variety and flow to life. It helps me to observe and celebrate the subtle changes around me and join in celebrations observed since ancient times. Most importantly, as a gardener, this Equinox reminds me that every Spring offers an opportunity to start anew"

🌿Happy Vernal Equinox friends! The Heirloom Gardener - John Forti
💚Artwork by Gaia Orion Art
Excerpt drawn from the essay on seasonality in my book https://www.amazon.com/Heirloom-Gardener-Traditional-Plants-Skills/dp/1604699930/ref=asc_df_1604699930/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=475855876966&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=425320486515164354&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9002501&hvtargid=pla-1063945602629&psc=1

03/06/2026

Digestion is the single largest stressor we put on our bodies each and every day. We are not what we eat, but what we can do with what we eat, each body is totally unique.

Some bodies can’t process some foods (allergies/sensitives) and we get that, it’s why we designed a custom share built for your health goals. Because health is not one size fits all.

📣We are officially opening up our 2026 FARM SHARE SEASON to you!

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03/04/2026

Shearing day is one of the most important days of the year on our ranch.

This fleece — fresh off the sheep — will become the yarn and blankets we produce right here in America.

When you purchase domestic fiber, you’re not just buying a product.
You’re supporting American ranching, rural jobs, and the future of wool production in this country.

If you’ve been thinking about trying American-made yarn or investing in a true wool blanket, this is where it begins.

Thank you for supporting our flock and our family.

03/02/2026

On glyphosate, becoming a keystone species again, and remembering to find presence in the human experience amidst an incredible amount of chaos.

Thank you for taking the time to sit in conversation, reflection, and ultimately reimagining a brighter future with me today.

It’s always an honor to sit in fellowship with all of you and to find stillness where there’s oftentimes so much overwhelming movement.

Sit with your neighbor. Begin your backyard garden. Listen to the stories of farmers.

Let’s move from reaction to reimagining what this planet’s trajectory can look like.

Take care,
Zach

Ways to engage:
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