Just days before our season opening, I suffered an injury that changed how our Spring 2024 season would look.
I was very excited about trying some amazing community events, happy about our plant season about to start, and beginning to curate local artisans to the on site gift shop… but an unfortunate fall resulted in my leg being broken in two places. As optimistic as I still was to be back on my feet in no time, healing a leg, although doing well, is much slower than I had anticipated.
I have had to reduce our plant sale and gift shop season to wrap up in June. And with great sadness, cancel some new amazing events I was highly anticipating.
I am a firm believer that everything happens for a reason. And so this has been an enormous learning journey for me. I have been deeply humbled by the offer of help from friends, family, neighbours, and even strangers. As a strong independent women owned business, I have always relied on myself. It has been such a journey to accept help when it was offered and feel so blessed from the help. In the last few weeks, I have not only learned how to accept help but also learned patience. I have been forced to learn that slowing down is not weakness. It is instead simply learning to appreciate different things.
All this to say that The Herb Garden Spring of 2024 was not at all what I had planned. Some changes needed to happen. But as summer approaches, I will heal, and I will be better off from the lessons learned this spring.
Next season you will once again be greeted by me, but hopefully a version of me that has learned from this journey and will be forever grateful you’ve returned to see what we have in the greenhouse and gift shop and what wonderful events we have in store.
Thank you to everyone who has expressed kindness to me. Encouraged me, offered to weed my gardens, make me food, given insightful advice. You can not know how this has fueled me and made me share with others just how amazing the kindness of the human spirit truly is. We hear a lot about terrible thigs in the world but I can attest that there are beautiful and kind things and the journey has been inspiring.
