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Kate Spring

Welcome to The Good Heart Life: an organic gardening and lifestyle blog where we grow beauty, joy, and nourishment for the body, soul, and earth. I'm Kate Spring: organic farmer, mother, and chief inspiration officer at Good Heart Farmstead and The Good Heart Life. Grow along with us, and together we'll cultivate a more lively, joyful world one {organic} seed at a time.

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A friend in California just planted sweet peas outside...we're harvesting icicles from the rooftop ❄️ What about you? Are you planting outside or still bundling up? — I love winter, but I admit: when I heard her say she spent the weekend planting, the first longing for spring sprouted inside me 🌱

"Sustainability is an act of love." ~ Melody Walker Brook, Abenaki artist, educator & activist — I presented at all three sessions on Sunday, but my favorite part of the @nofavermont winter conference was Melody Walker Brook's keynote speech, "Eight Sisters: Connection to Place Through an Abenaki Lens" — And every year, I love these little art cards that NOFA-VT gives away. Here's to diverse communities, to seeds we sow together, and to the possibilities that sprout when we listen and learn from many voices 🌱

Love and flowers from our hearts to yours, because love isn't just for Valentine's Day 🌱❤️🌱 thanks for sharing this space with us, and for all you grow. You're wonderful ✨ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Grow some joy 🌱 tag a friend who makes you smile

“There’s something miraculous that happens in a garden. It’s a place where, if you can’t say ‘I love you’ out loud, you can say it in seeds. And the earth will reciprocate, in beans.” -Robin Wall Kimmerer — In 2009, my first summer farming, late blight wiped out tomatoes across the Northeast, and my 2 1/2 year relationship fell apart. Loss and growth intertwined that summer, and I think if I hadn't been heartbroken, I wouldn't have fallen so in love with farming. — But the land held me that summer, and every time I moved goats, pigs, and chickens to fresh pasture, every time I planted a new crop and harvested a mature one, I learned there was a way to move forward and keep growing myself. — At the root of it, farming is love. If you find you're in a place where you can't say I love you out loud today, plant some seeds. The earth will reciprocate, and what grows may change your life. — If you want to read the whole story, hop over to The Good Heart Life blog {link in profile}

This little yurt was the first structure at Good Heart. It's where we sprouted the dreams we'd been holding for years, where we started our family, where Waylon came into the world. And now it's all tucked in with snow. — When we moved out of the yurt in 2015, I was SO excited for more space, windows, and real insulation. But I'm always thankful for this circular space and how it taught us to live closely and communicate authentically. (It's hard to hide your frustrations when living in a 20' circle!) — Love comes in many forms, and one of those is a yurt. Thanks for being our beginning.

Women's work - what does that phrase bring to mind? Do you see women hauling compost, driving tractors, working in the rain and cold, tending the land, planting crops, and teaching the next generation how our actions today will help sow our future reality? — That's what I see. It's what I live. — I had the enormous benefit of beginning my farming career on women-owned farms. To sow my first seeds in soil tended to by people who didn't doubt my strength or ability helped me dig deeper and prove myself when I ran into someone who did. — These days I'm not so interested in proving myself as I am interested in being an example to my son, teaching and growing and sharing experiences of soil, seedlings, and the possibilities that sprout when we connect with the land. — Tag a female farmer, gardener, or general bad-ass woman who's working to grow a better, more deeply rooted and nourishing future. — High-fives to all the women I've met here in the insta-verse, I'm so grateful to grow these connections #womensworkwednesday hosted by @love_and_lavender

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