Waking the Garden: Preparing for a Season of Growth 🌱

There is a quiet kind of magic happening on the farm right now ✨

The garden may still look like it’s resting, but beneath the surface, everything is beginning to stir. These early spring days are some of the most meaningful of the entire growing season—this is where intention meets action, and where the foundation for abundance is carefully laid.

This year, we are expanding 🌿

We’ve been thoughtfully increasing our growing space to support more produce for the farm stand, something that feels deeply aligned with our vision of providing fresh, nourishing food to our community. With that expansion also comes a new step forward—we will be joining the Athol Farmers Market as a vendor starting in July 🧺 It feels like a natural extension of what we are building here, and we are so looking forward to connecting with more of you throughout the season.

Out in the garden, the work has already begun 🌼

We’ve transplanted over 200 strawberry plants 🍓, giving them fresh space to root and thrive. There’s something incredibly satisfying about this kind of work—hands in the soil, tending each plant with care, knowing that in time they will offer sweetness in return.

Our raised beds are also getting a refresh 🪴 Soil is being amended, nutrients replenished, and each bed is being prepared to support the next round of growth. It’s a reminder that healthy gardens begin long before anything is harvested.

Meanwhile, tucked safely away, our dahlia tubers are still sleeping 🌸

And what a gift it is to check on them and find them just as beautiful and healthy as the day we put them to rest. There’s a quiet reassurance in that—nature holding steady, waiting for the right moment to awaken.

In April, we’ll be welcoming you to the farm stand for our in-person dahlia tuber sale 🌷 This has become one of our favorite ways to share a piece of the garden with you—to send these blooms out into new spaces where they will grow, flourish, and bring beauty to others.

This season is already asking us to stretch, to grow, and to trust the process 🌞

And if there’s one thing the garden teaches us again and again, it’s this: everything has its timing. The work we do now—the unseen, the quiet, the steady preparation—creates the conditions for everything that follows.

We’re so grateful to be in this rhythm, and even more grateful to share it with you 🤍

With love from the garden,

Sherryl