A peaceful first week

Turtle-ing out on Turtle Island

Mood

A week into January and some of my plants are up and ready 👀, but hold on! I’m not there yet. The start of the year can feel rushed and urgent, but honestly I’m cultivating rest and grounding. Slowly emerging to greet my neighbors over brief chats and visits are daily highlights. Slow approaches to everything from tea to compost makes things feel easy right now. Turtle Island, indeed.

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Greetings

Nineteen new subscribers jumped on board from the Seed Library Network’s Cool Beans! newsletter. Aww! I love that you are keen to cross-pollinate ideas and stories about seeds. Welcome to you all and also to the 99 subs I added from the contact list we cultivated in early days of the Napa County Seed Library.

The content and community are designed to be helpful and inspired in this newsletter, but if it’s ultimately not your thing, you can always unsubscribe at the bottom of the page. For interesting stuff about who we are and how we got ourselves here, read the About page.

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What’s on deck for 2025?

Yes, together, we DID nail down a few things in the first week…

• Our 2025 Event Calendar is set! For more details, view our website for the complete list of events that we’ll attend or host this year.

A few of the events we'll attend or host in 2025. 💥

(Our 4th Annual Seed Swap is scheduled for April 5th, while National Seed Swap Day is January 25th. Cool Beans! covered this event early to give resources about how to host your own seed swap in the latest edition.)

• Dane and I reviewed our social media strategy to align it with the event calendar and together we locked in a solid plan. We’re excited to get back into the garden and film some great shorts for you.

Sooo many notes.

• I pruned a little of that yarrow, finally, and looked over the other overwintering plants that are also doing well, each one adding nutrients to the soil and living their best lives. (I can’t believe I have a flowering tomato plant right now.)

• Thanks to our seed keeper volunteers, seeds are slowly making their way back into the annexes. To find an annex near you, tap here. They’ll be fully stocked again by mid-January.

• Random captures of plants, fungi, and garden-related things find their way to SEED TAPE under “PlantSnaps.”

Four seasons collapsing time in my January garden.

I’m grateful to be here with you.

Seed you soon,

P.S. SEED TAPE articles rolled out in late December. You can visit the home page to find the ones you may have missed.

Previous SEED TAPE posts since migrating to Substack in December.