About a year ago I heard the motto: "hacer menos, pero mejor" which translates to ~ take on less responsibilities, but do them better. It was exactly the advice I needed to hear so I dropped everything that wasn't essential to survival. I let go of my ambitions to have a manicured patch of vegetables and instead have been focusing on the much more manageable task of tending to a potted garden of greens and herbs in my front yard.
Living in a rural area with very little access to health care I feel that growing herbs for medicine is totally an essential task. So many of the herbs that were scattered throughout this land I brought together just outside my kitchen door where they are on hand at any given moment.
And alongside the established herbs in pots and a few in the ground, I am sowing seeds for new herbs that I would like to establish in the future garden in my future home. For years I have grown echinacea, a much sought after herb that I wrote about in a recent herbal profile for the Herbal Hive community.
Last year my vegetable patch was taken over by flowers ~ sunflowers, zinnias, and cosmos. It was SO beautiful to walk out there and be surrounded by flowers from my homelands, and others that I have collected over the years from dear friends. The only downside was that the vegetable garden was a little walk away (and, of course, didn't actually have any vegetables to speak of). This year I want to see flowers as I go about my work at home & go to and from our building project on bikes.