The Garden Doula helps clients build satisfying and therapeutic relationships with their gardens and dwellings.
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“Through gardening, we bridge the gap between the dreams in our head and the ground under our feet…”
Find your vision…
Do you want to feed your family with home-grown fruits and vegetables? Create a tranquil garden to calm frayed nerves? Build an inviting outdoor space for entertaining? Start a backyard chicken flock? Perhaps you want to bring the outdoors into your dwelling through textiles, colors and indoor plants. The Garden Doula can help!
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Whether a woodland playground for kids or a gracious outdoor entertaining space to foster community with friends and neighbors, let’s explore the ways that gardens and gardening can bring joy to your life… in addition to the delights to the physical senses of blooms and boughs in a well-curated outdoor space.
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The satisfaction of growing and eating your own fruits and vegetables, or savoring the fresh eggs from your backyard flock, goes beyond the nutritional benefits to the body. Your connection to place, and to your family, is nourished as well. Children who can forage in their own backyards from berry bushes, vegetable gardens and fruit trees have a deeper appreciation for food, waste less and are more resilient. Your garden can be a place to strengthen the bonds of your family.
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We all carry a burden of some sort, whether it’s the stress of day-to-day life in a post-pandemic world; grief from the loss of a parent, child or partner; struggles with fertility; or the lingering footprint of childhood trauma.
As we tend our plants, or simply dwell in the protected space of the garden, we give our thoughts a chance to settle. As we begin to cultivate a deeper attachment to place, we create even more opportunities to find ease and contentment.
“A garden is always the expression of someone’s mind and the outcome of someone’s care.”
What to expect…
Gardening is not just about the end-product, but also the process. Working together, we’ll make sure the experience of birthing your garden is as satisfying as the end result.
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Working with the Garden Doula, you can expect a compassionate listener, dedicated to constructive communication. No idea is too big, no question is too small. Through our collaboration, we’ll hone in on a vision that suits your hopes and needs for your home.
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You have choices. Perhaps you’ve worked with a landscaper before and been left with a garden or design that does not feel your own. Let’s explore your options and come up with a plan that works for you and your setting so that you can have a garden you love, that is truly yours.
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Once we’ve identified what you want, I’ll bring together the resources to make it happen, whether it’s expert stone masons, our own experienced gardeners and arborists, or the support to grow your own skills and confidence as a gardener or keeper of your own backyard flock. You don’t have to fumble in the dark for answers—I’ve got your back.
“Wonders of nature may be revealed to us if we do not overlook them.”
We are delighted to welcome Elana Bell and Ben Brown back to the farmstead for another magical evening of deep relaxation and connection through sound.