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🌸 A Mother's Garden: A Tribute to Growing Life

Published about 2 months ago • 1 min read

Happy Sunday, Reader,

Today, we celebrate the women who sow seeds of life, love, and hope into the world. 🌸

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​🌿 Celebrating the Mothers Who Grew Us

Happy Mother's Day to my mom, Xenia, whose birthday happens to be Earth Day! Isn't that crazy cool?
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Every year, I celebrate her by planting a small garden of perennial flowers. Some of her favorites include the irises that return faithfully, year after year.
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And I celebrate my 103-year-old grandmother, Lola Teresa, who is a gardener extraordinaire! In my upcoming book, Permaculture Gardening for Everyon, I share a story about how, as a child, Lola would encourage me to grow orchids by assigning me one. I would then proceed to ignore it until it was she who was taking care of the plant!

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What a lazy gardener I was and honestly, still am!

So take heart, if I can grow these nowadays with little work,

so can you, Reader!

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​🌸 Gardening Is an Act of Love

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Mothers, grandmothers, aunts, and mentors—your nurturing spirit grows far beyond what is seen.

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Because those little moments in the garden with my "Lola Teresa", as well as countless encounters with growers throughout the years, resulted in the work that is now Permaculture Gardens. Hopefully, this little work blossoms in your yard as well, and you can continue the tradition of growing food for and with your family.
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🌾 Heirloom Seeds: A Mother's Gift

This is lifted from our blog on Heirloom Seeds​
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Tor Jansen of Seed Savers Exchange said that it was not uncommon for mothers to pass on a box of seeds to their daughters on their wedding. In this way, it was like saying,
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"With these seeds you can feed yourself and your family and take a little bit of me wherever you go."

Seed-saving is one more way that love—and life—continues to be passed from generation to generation.
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🌱 Gardening and Motherhood: A Sacred Parallel

At Permaculture Gardens, we believe that gardening and motherhood are deeply intertwined:

  • Both require patience, faith, and trust in the unseen work happening beneath the surface.
  • Both involve hope—planting seeds today for a harvest yet to come.
  • Both are acts of courage in a world that desperately needs renewal.

So today, we honor you—the life-growers, the soil-restorers, the ones who choose to care.

May your gardens (and your lives) be filled with deep roots of joy, abundant harvests of love, and the quiet peace that comes from tending something beautiful. 🌿

Happy Mother’s Day! 💐
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Grow abundantly,
🌿 Nicky & Dave

Dave & Nicky Schauder

of Permaculture Gardens

Nicky and Dave Schauder are passionate about helping families grow their food, and medicine and find God in the garden

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