This garden coach is helping her Colorado community feel more connected to the food they eat that nourishes their bodies and souls.
While growing up in the deserts of Saudi Arabia, Lindsay Graves used to make her friends go with her to abandoned houses and dig up trees to plant by their playhouse for “garden club.” She didn’t let the fact that they all died stop her from studying biology in college, with a focus on plants and soils.
After college, she moved to Oregon to complete a farm internship program, where she learned about seed production and a whole host of other topics. It wasn’t until she moved to Colorado, began teaching middle school science, and had her own children, that she realized she, one, had 12+ years of gardening experience and knowledge she wanted to share with people, and two, she’d rather teach adults and save her patience for her own kids.
That’s when she started following a Gardenary-trained coach on social media and learned that, yes, garden coaching is a thing! The structure of garden coaching seemed like a perfect fit for the lifestyle she envisioned for herself. She enrolled in the Garden Coach Society.
All the support that Gardenary has provided has allowed me to make way more progress on my business in five weeks than in two+ years of wanting to have a job that had something to do with plants.
Lindsay loves providing garden-fresh produce for her family and is proud to say she hasn’t bought a vegetable from the store since April. Just from intensive planting between the months of May and September, right in her own backyard of their house on Fourth Street, she was able to put away enough food to last her family of four quite a while. “We have poultry as well,” she says, “so I love being able to include animals into our garden system so that it mimics an ecosystem.”
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Garden Coach Society provides structure to focus my energy and ideas in a productive direction. It provides you lists of actionable tasks that make it hard to not get traction… The content is rich, and there's more to be learned upon digesting, revisiting, and integrating the concepts and skills presented. There's enough easy work to get me excited and enough hard work to keep me interested. It's truly great teaching to strike that balance so well.
After becoming a garden coach, Lindsay’s business Fourth Street Farm was really able to take off in Eagle County. Fourth Street Farm plans, designs, and installs kitchen gardens customized to her unique location. She uses her expertise to help gardeners in her community and members of the Mountain Vegetable Garden Club grow the correct varieties of plants to withstand the wild weather and thin soil near the Rocky Mountains.
Lindsay’s mission is not only to teach her community to grow “mountains” of nutritious and delicious bounty to fuel their active mountain lifestyles year-round, but also to help people feel more connected to the food that nourishes their bodies.
“I read seed catalogs and technical production sheets like regular people read books, so I’m excited to put all this learning to good use teaching clients how to successfully grow food in their yards,” Lindsay says on her website.
Lindsay teaches gardening skills through live classes, coaching sessions, and garden parties for groups of friends. What better person to share her wisdom and knowledge than a teacher-turned-garden coach?
We look forward to watching Fourth Street Farm grow and flourish in Colorado!
Learn more about Fourth Street Farm here. Follow Lindsay and Fourth Street Farm on Instagram and Facebook.
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