Through the Seasons with Megan Gilger

Buying our land in Traverse City was an interesting story that wasn't as clean cut of a story as just a pretty picture on Instagram. It was far more meaningful and beautiful than I could have imagined for us. Since I receive a lot of questions about it, I thought we would have a little story time about it all for you all today. Enjoy this episode. If you want to learn more about things there are l...

In this week's meditation, we are going to learn from the rain about how to let go and how sometimes we are the clouds and sometimes we are the Earth...being human is being aware of our moment to be each depending on the state of our life. As always if you desire to dive deeper into these meditative conversations our community heads far deeper with them with journal prompts and zoom conversations....

There are lots of options to support your tomatoes in your garden and they don't involve a tomato cage. Yes, it is true. Sure tomato cages are sold to us as just that...support for our tomatoes but they are really badly named. Instead, they do better for a lot of other plants in our garden, but not tomatoes. So, today I am sharing how I learned a completely new method and why it isn't too late to...

In this week's meditation, we will head into our flower beds and learn just how our flowers offer us an easy lesson in abundance and challenging us to find a deeper connection. As always if you desire to dive deeper into these meditative conversations our community heads far deeper with them with journal prompts and zoom conversations. Join our newsletter to learn how to join . Hosted on Acast. Se...

Growing Garlic is one of the easiest and best things to grow as a beginner gardener, but it may seem complicated and also how do you know when to harvest it?! I got you covered in today's episode. It is all far easier, more fun, and way less work than you may think. Plus the rewards are more than just the bulbs of garlic to keep you healthy this winter...Garlic may be the gardener's best friend. R...

Today's Friday Meditation is all about peas and the lessons they have taught me this year. If you want to dive deeper into these meditations...you can join our community this fall by checking out this page on our website . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Keeping Deer out of the garden doesn't have to be hard or a huge fight. Many people ask how I do this so I shared a blog post full of the notes and this episode to help you in naturally deterring deer from your garden. These ideas are natural and don't involve a big fight with nature. Here is the blog post for you Here are the Nite Guard Lights I suggest. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...

New series of reading and sharing our weekly meditations our community enjoys on an even deeper level. We will be sharing these meditations now every Friday for your weekend. If you want to dive deeper with our community you are welcome to check in on one of our upcoming events here. You can join our email newsletter as well to know when the next opening for the community is this Fall . If you are...

I have been lucky enough to connect and sit around many tables with Sara and Nic Theisen of Loma Farm and Farm Club so I knew when many of you asked to hear from them how wonderful and inspiring this conversation would be. The realities of being a farmer are always fascinating to me but being someone who has helped for a very very short stint one summer on their farm, I knew that Sara and Nic had...

This week our summer community is open and ready for you to join. If you have been thinking about it, today in the episode I offer up the vision for what we will be doing in our community, why this community means so much to me, and some highlights of the upcoming season as well as the ways it is deeply impacted me. You can learn more and join here on our website: https://freshexchange.com/join/ I...

What began for husband-wife duo Hannah and Brady as a quest to recreate New Zealand-style muesli inspired by their honeymoon travels morphed into a mission to clean up the overly-processed cereal aisle back home in the US. Seven Sundays' humble roots began by selling muesli at the local farmers' market, and today you'll find their muesli and the new Sunflower Cereal in retailers like Whole Foods,...

Have you tried companion planting? If not today you are going to learn everything about it why Tomatoes are my favorite plant to play with companion planting. They are so fun to use these methods on and I promise you will enjoy it. Check out this blog post I wrote all about the best tomato companion plants to use in your garden. OUR COMMUNITY OPENS JUNE 20th for Summer . Get all the info below. Me...

I am detailing EVERYTHING to know about building a chicken coop and the realities that may surprise you. I spent a lot of time doing the research before we purchased our hens. I had been researching for years. We then created a design for the coop with my dad who is a licensed contractor to plan and layout and then to build last year. Enjoy all the details and use the blog posts below to help get...

Dive deep into an honest conversation with Randi Kay of Naturally Randi Kay as she and I discuss the realities of the pressures on mothers postpartum, the rhythm of healing, and how to create a positive structure to self-care that involves healthy rituals amongst the things we already are doing. We are really honest about our shortcomings and how messaging is highly effective in not-so-good ways....

An herb garden is one of the simplest and most rewarding gardens to grow and you can actually grow one and feel super confident about it! It is simpler and easier than you would think. No matter your skill level or the space you have an herb garden is an option for you! I am a huge fan of herbs and have been for so long. Below I detail everything you need to know about growing it successfully, her...

When we talk about our current climate crisis and the decline in biodiversity it can feel so heavy and impossible, but when I started digging into Doug Tallamy' s books about how we can reverse what we are currently seeing by focusing more of our yards on Native Plantings and less on growing a lawn....A weight was lifted. Since then I have become impassioned about native plants. How we can add mor...

Backyard Chickens have become so common during the pandemic. 2020 saw a huge spike in families deciding to get chickens, building coops and more. Mike and I joined the masses and added 13 chickens to our land last year and spent our summer building a huge coop. Needless to say, we learned a lot, but I didn't learn any of it without the help of my friends, so I brought on the two women I share a "c...

If there is a contentious conversation in the spring outside of the normal issues in our current world it is the conversation about Wild Leeks or Ramps. Every year I am learning new things and then this year I started realizing how many differing ideologies were out there about these plants. I wanted to dig into it with someone who has WAY more experience than me to answer some of my burning quest...

Today we sit down with Melvin Parson of We The People Opportunity Farm located in Washtenaw County, Michigan just outside of Detroit. Together Melvin and Megan discuss the story that put into motion a Non-Profit focused on helping give new opportunities and break the cycle of incarceration through farming and healing land connection. Melvin personally has experienced the cycle of incarceration and...

We are finishing off this week with a quick little extra for you all. We did a quick Q&A with Elana Jadallah of Elanaloo on some of her top tips for Lowering our Waste and Plastic Use. Elana is candid and open about her challenges and where they still lie and how we can handle these things. She mentions her Sustainable Living Check List so we linked it here for you. You can follow Elana on&nbs...

This week we are sitting down with Elana Jadallah of Elanaloo . Elana shifted her business years back when she had a profound first hand experience on the ocean coast of Hawai'i. Since then that moment pivoted not just her personal life but her business as well. We talk about simple ways that changes in what we buy, how we spend our money, the money we don't spend, and so much more not only can ma...

In today's podcast episode, I have gathered up a list of all the reasons that as modern parents why we need the garden more than ever and so do our children. We sit and discuss how to set our expectations of creating a garden with our kids and how I have discovered what may be the root of why a garden may be the most powerful tool we can have in parenting and raising children. As our first in our...

Beginning a garden is exciting! We want to think about all the ways it will look and feel in August. We all feel SO ready to get out and enjoy nature, BUT before we begin let's make sure we begin on the right foot. Today in this episode I will be sharing my top things to think about when choosing where to place your garden AND whether to go in-ground or raised beds or even containers. It's a lot t...

I am so excited today to welcome Kalin Sheick of Sweetwater Floral in Petoskey, Michigan to the podcast today. You know I am all about the veggies around here, but I also don't think any veggie patch is complete without flowers! I have learned so much from Kalin over the last few years and she is always inspiring me with her designs and approach to life. So I was so happy to sit down and talk sinc...

This episode is slightly different than our others because something really exciting is happening this Saturday. The doors to our Fresh Exchange Community are opening for one week just before we kick into the Spring season and I brought on my partner in life and business, Mike Gilger to tell you everything about it with me. We have been working away on building out this space together and it has b...