We live in Minnesota, gardening zone 4. Growing seasons are short, but we can do all sorts of planning and prep inside! I have twin 4 year olds, so they’ll probably “help” me with these, but they’re totally fun for adults too! Here are 3 projects you can work on this winter.

Chickens have been a garden companion since the dawn of time (don’t look up that fact, I made it up) But really…Chickens are a great addition to any urban or rural yard. They have the obvious benefits of providing eggs and meat to humans, but did you know that they also help keep our gardens…

When you leave up plant stalks like grasses, perennials, woody plant blooms, you provide winter interest and allow wildlife (like birds and bees) to use the parts of the plants that they need for survival. All of my advice is for in and around zone 4. If you need help finding your gardening zone, take…

I recently attended the Wild Ones Native Plant Conference, where my knowledge of Native Plants was far expanded! I feel very benefited from the conference and so I went through my materials to gleam some information to share with you all, about why native plantings are so important, and why Sacred Space Gardens is choosing…

Do you have an unruly shrub? A rose bush that wont bloom well? An apple tree with crossing limbs? I lilac that has gotten too big? A floppy bush? It’s probably time to prune. Pruning is crucial to the health of our woody plants: Shrubs, bushes, trees. It is important that pruning is done correctly…

It’s easy to say that your garden is a place for beauty and to bring you joy, but when we dig deeper into the reasons we keep gardens and what they’re role in our world, is we need to look at the creatures that utilize gardens a lot more than we do. In fact, they…

Last summer we desperately needed a truck as job requests were getting larger and we were getting busier. Running a gardening business out of my Toyota RAV4 was getting ridiculous. Then we bought this stupid, rusted out, POS: the white truck.  

Our client, Lisa, presented us with a wildflower space that had gone to the weeds. She had various places in her yard that needed attention.