About this week’s guest: Ally is a stylist and personal shopper. Her superpower is helping you find your style and the clothes to go with it.

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Where you can find Ally:
Personal styling site
Substack

The Joy of birds: the effect of rating for joy or counting garden bird species on wellbeing, anxiety, and nature connection

Birding With Benefits by Sarah T Dubbs

DOC trailer

Cut Flower Class at Redux Contemporary Art Center

The Paper Canopy

Learn To Grow Cool Season Flowers

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Jules is a natural farmer, soil researcher, and garden educator based in New Orleans. His background includes school gardening, cannabis cultivation, worm-based composting & large-scale organic food production. He currently works at Rosy Soil where he formulates peat-free, biochar-based potting soils that are organic, high quality and sustainably produced.

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TikTok
Instagram
Rosy Soil

The Surprising Ways Soil Can Aid Our Mental Health

Come by Here: A Memoir in Essays from Georgia's Geechee Coast by Neesha Powell-Ingabire

Red Foliated White Cotton from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange

No Dig Gardening

Mole Cricket

Find your hardiness / growing zone here

Learn To Grow Cool Season Flowers

About this week’s guest: Ochuko is the writer and marketer behind as seen on, a newsletter about business, culture, and gen z trends. She lives between Lagos and Europe.

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Ochuko’s
Newsletter: As Seen On

Neighborhood attachment and its correlates: Exploring neighborhood conditions, collective efficacy, and gardening

Find your hardiness / growing zone here

Cool Season Cut Flower Sessions

About this week’s guest: Michelle and her recipes have become a staple in home cooking around the globe since the publication of her first book in 2014 which was an instant #1 New York Times best-seller. She has 5 bestselling cookbooks, published in over 8 different languages. She headed an award-winning brand, Bad Manners for 12 years and now heading up her own weekly newsletter, Stir the Pot.

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Michelle’s
Book: Hungry As Hell (the book with the mac n’ cheese recipe!)
Website
Newsletter: Stir The Pot
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Understanding Food Literacy in Urban Gardeners: A Case Study of the Twin Cities, Minnesota

The Moth Snowstorm by Michael McCarthy

One Of Them Days

Find your hardiness / growing zone here

Learn To Grow Cut Flowers

About this week’s guest: Karen Azoulay is a Canadian born, Brooklyn-based artist and author. Inspired by "feminine" motifs, she explores cultural phenomena that have historically been overlooked with the purpose of recontextualizing and championing them. Karen's projects have been featured in publications such as the New York Times, New Yorker, Hyperallergic, and Vogue. Her book Flowers and Their Meanings, The Secret Language and History of Over 600 Blooms was selected by Barnes & Noble as one of the best books of 2023.

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Karen’s
Book: Flowers and Their Meanings
Website
Newsletter: Flowers and Their Meanings
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Observing versus creating flowers: a review of relevance for art therapy

Gomprehna seeds

Learn To Grow Cut Flowers

About this week’s guest: Barri Leiner Grant is a grief specialist and the founder of The Memory Circle for grief support – a place and space she created for those learning to live with loss. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, Psychology Today, Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper, on award winning podcasts, television appearances and radio shows. She frequently hosts retreats at The Omega Institute and Kripalu Center.

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Barri’s:
Website: The Memory Circle
Newsletter: (permission GRANTed)
Upcoming Events: Conscious Grieving Retreat
Living With Loss: Support Group
IG

Growing Grief: Cultivating Life After Death in the Garden by Avril Tynan

My Mom Jayne

The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning

The Beauty of What Remains and For You When I’m Gone by Steve Leder

About this week’s guest: Emily Fiffer is a restaurant owner (Botanica, in Silverlake) and writer (read, eat, repeat) living in LA.

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Emily’s:
Restaurant: Botanica
Botanica’s Online Shop
Newsletter (read, eat, repeat)

Prospect + Refuge Theory

The Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard

Doppelganger by Naomi Klein

Slipsteam by Elizabeth Jane Howard

About this week’s guest: Laura Wright is the founder of The First Mess, a blog for plant-based recipe inspiration as well as a of cookbook of the same name. Hailing from the Niagara region of southern Ontario, Laura enjoys taking on way too many projects in the garden, hiking with her dogs, working on a weekly feel-good newsletter, dilly dallying, and doing pretty much any offline activity.

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Laura’s:
Website: The First Mess
Newsletter
Book: The First Mess
IG

Study: Prescribing Nature for Human Health: An Examination of Public Interest, Barriers, and Enablers Related to Nature Prescription Programming in Canada

Crispy & Chewy Air Fryer Edamame

The Menopause Brain by Dr. Lisa Mosconi

Learn To Grow Cut Flowers