Through the Seasons with Megan Gilger

When the pandemic began in March 2020, the very backbone of the food industry was laid bare to the world and many of us discovered how to source food locally. But as we begin to see the bright light of the end of the pandemic, can we continue these ideas into our routines? How do we make Local Eating a normal thing? How do we learn to eat this way? Most of all how do we even begin this process on...

Happy March! As we end winter this month, I wanted to kick off with discussing the opening of our brand new Fresh Exchange community where we will be focused on growing together as our garden grow through the seasons. In this episode we kick it off by discussing everything you need to know about our community as well as HOW to WIN one of 3 Annual Memberships to the community (a value of $160). We...

In this Garden Tour Interview we have Kelsey Johnston who manages the lifestyle blog, My Simply Simple, where she shares about motherhood, the pursuit of a simple and eco life, and various tips on living minimally and intentionally. Kelsey is a wealth of information about building a life of sustainability through minimalism and intention. She and her husband and young daughter, live on 8.5 acres i...

On today's episode we discuss the topic of Seasonal Eating. The first of many episodes where we will talk about the ways we can connect deeper to nature through our diet. Though this is a BIG topic we are beginning by just discussing what Seasonal Eating, why we should know about it, and how even as parents we can take steps towards this becoming more and more apart of our day-to-day life. We also...

In the first edition of our Garden Tour Interviews we have Megan Stubbs who is a professional sexologist and certified body image expert. Megan writes for many well known publications such as Cosmopolitan and Teen Vogue along with many others, but when not working Megan has an incredible garden in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan where she grows incredible things including lemon trees, hibiscus pla...

I was born and raised amongst the winter and experiencing them challenged me so much that when I became older I ran from Winter. The challenges were too uncomfortable. I didn't want to embrace it. Today on the podcast we are jumping deeper into how winter is our opportunity to learn how to thrive in hard times. I share what I have learned from running from winters and coming back to them because I...

The long awaited 2020 garden recap is here! In today's episode on Fresh Exchange we will be recapping the last year in our garden in the midst of a pandemic. We fell for the bigger garden and build a chicken coop trends of 2020 and I am here to share everything I learned through the process. We begin the episode discussing seed shortages and I suggest checking out this blog post if you would like...

We begin today's first podcast by asking you to breathe! Just to take a few breathes. The beginning of this year hasn't been easy. My gosh has it not. But did we really believe that when 2021 arrived at our door everything that hung within 2020 would simply disappear? No. We knew better. That said, before we dive into the conversation about approaching intentions this year. I want to to identify w...

Welcome to the Fresh Exchange podcast! Every week I will discuss topics that range from my own gardening experiences and things I am learning to how I work with seasonal rhythms to connect the dots of life experiences and we will even chat about parenting at times as well. Some weeks I will bring in amazing guests who inspire and challenge me as I ask questions to learn from them myself in hopes t...