Mindfulness Garden Games
by Joann Calabrese
author of Growing Mindful

Your Circle of Influence

 New Moon Greetings – February 27, 2025 Circle of Influence in the Garden  As an organic gardener, I am happy to accommodate a healthy mix of insects in the garden. The beneficial predators usually take care of the destructive insects. However, each summer, my Denver garden is overrun with Japanese Beetles. They are voracious insects … Read more

A Path through the Dark Times

Greetings at the New Moon – December 1, 2024 Finding a Path Forward in the Darkest of Times It is winter in the northern hemisphere, and daylight morphs into darkness earlier and earlier. Sunset here in Denver is around 4:30 PM. Winter always brings less light, but this year the darkness is more than the … Read more

Gather, Appreciate, & Release

Garden Veggie Pizza gather the harvest

New Moon Greetings – October 2, 2024 Gather, Appreciate, & Release Fall is a busy time for gardeners. Depending on the size of your garden it can be hard to keep up with the harvest. And we also have to be concerned about the first frost. In Denver our average first frost date is October … Read more

Chaos Gardening

New Moon Greetings – August 4, 2024 I’ve always joked that my style of gardening should be called chaos gardening. Springtime plans quickly turn unwieldy, leading to a backyard awash in shapes, colors, fruits, flowers, and vegetables in no discernable order. And that is how it has always been. So, I was delighted to find … Read more

Lessons of Motherwort

Motherwort

Happy New Moon! May 7, 2024 The motherwort in my yard is already a foot high. This lovely perennial herb belongs to the mint family.  However, unlike many other mints, it does not have a strong fragrance and it won’t take over your yard. The plant is impressive, standing tall with serrated leaves gently sloping … Read more

Almost Solstice with Santa Lucia

New Moon Greetings – December 12, 2023 Tomorrow – December 13th – is the feast day of Santa Lucia Day (Saint Lucy). She is the patron saint of Sicily and many parts of Southern Italy, as well as the Netherlands. But what many people don’t realize is that December 13th was the date of Winter … Read more

Earth Day Mindfulness

Happy New Moon  April 20, 2023 Earth Day Mindfulness Earth Day is upon us (Saturday April 22nd) and I wanted to write about Earth Day Mindfulness, but have been challenged by opposing views. Mindfulness is of course paying attention to what IS, not about closing our eyes, and pretending things are okay when they are … Read more

Advice from Luna

Blessings at the New Moon – January 21 – 2023 A lion on the Serengeti  My dog Luna is an expert at finding places near the edges of the garden where she can merge with the background and camouflage herself. I have found her nestled in the sunchokes, hidden behind grape vines and in the … Read more

New Moon Mindfulness

Happy New Moon – December 23, 2022 It’s the December new moon – and this particular one arrives just two days after winter solstice .These events share many of the same energetic qualities. They both are times of darkness, but also are turn around points for increasing light. Winter solstice is the annual point, but … Read more

Yarrow & the Essence of Healing

Full Moon Greetings – December 6, 2022 Yarrow in the Garden Achillea millefolium, or yarrow, is a beautiful wildflower and easy to grow healing plant. The leaves are feathery, soft, and fernlike and flower heads are made of clusters of many tiny flowers. In the wild, yarrow is usually shades of white or pink, but there are … Read more

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