Gem City Gardens

07/06/2024

June garden ✨

20/03/2024

Happy spring 🌸🌱🪺 Our natural dye ✨purple/blue- purple cabbage ✨pink-beets, yellow-turmeric orange-beets and turmeric

12/01/2024

First load of compost ✨🌱 thank you !!!

09/01/2024

What to do on a dark and disturbingly rainy January morn? Play with rosehips! Rosehips slow infusing in avocado oil, for serums and butters. Rosehips in olive oil for soap. Stored dry rosehips for tea. Why? Rosehips are amazing medicine! In a simmered tea form or fermented in honey, they are an excellent antiviral and vitamin c boosters! In soaps and serums/butters they help skin cells regenerate, offering a gentle shield against aging and weathering of skin. There are compounds in rosehips that help to brighten dark spots and reduce the visibility of scars. You will often find rosehip oil in anti-aging face serums, and in products for reducing stretch marks. This plant friend also has the potential to be grown locally with ease and collected after the first hard frost. All rosehips from natives to rose cultivars are safe for consumption (as long as they are foraged properly and in proper non-toxic areas.) * note! I often photograph infusing oils and tinctures in front of lights or windows, this is ONLY to show you how beautiful they are. Slow oil infusion should be kept in a dark place around 70 degrees, a direct heat source, such as a seed germ mat, is extremely helpful. You can do this too 😘🌱✨

16/12/2023

Look who visited the 2nd Street Market today 🙃❄️ Santa and The Queen of Santa (according to my daughter.) 👏👏👏

29/11/2023

Hi friends! If you’re feeling generous on Giving Tuesday please consider donating to this awesome group of folks trying to start a nature based lower elementary school in the Miami Valley. Trillium Nature School is part of a local movement to move classrooms outside into nature! Please consider donating!

(I am on the board of directors and super excited to be part of this local education movement in the Miami Valley!)

Happy Giving Tuesday! We appreciate any support you can give to help us reach our goal of opening Trillium for the 2024-2025 school year! Maybe forgo that coffee and give $5 toward making nature eduction possible! No donation is too small! We appreciate you!
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28/11/2023

Come help this nature school get going!

Get your tickets today!

Please join us for our first fundraiser on December 17! We are excited to share in community with you, share about our mission and goals and raise money for our first year!

Register here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/trilliumnatureschool/1067370

Want to donate to this great cause but can’t join us for the event? Please click here: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYeWOc5O9020W47ss
We appreciate you!

26/11/2023

Thanks to everyone for coming out to see us today, and for supporting local artists and crafts people! It was a joy to meet new friends and be visited by old friends 💜 thank you for your love. Special thanks to for hosting us, I had a wonderful time!

26/11/2023

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“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”
- bell hooks

25/11/2023

21/11/2023

My Cactus says that the Holidays are in the air!! Come join us this Saturday Nov 25 for small business Saturday! I will be doing a small business pop up hosted by the fabulous ! I will have soaps, body butters and salves. Pink Moon Goods is located near the Oregon District, 2nd Street Market and Front Street! Come out and give all these small businesses your love! Support local people! ✨💜

05/11/2023

Hi friends! A few things…

1. I am searching for wood pallets and/or giant rocks to hold our tarp down on the lot, and possibly someone that would be willing to deliver them to the lot on St. Nichols, as I lack a vehicle or trailer to haul them there.

2. Anyone know of a good source for cardboard?

3. Does anyone have suggestions for local source of compost, straw, large rocks, tree limbs/pieces, preferably free 🙃

Thanks 💜🌱✨

25/10/2023

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18/08/2023

Beautiful, tasty tomatos from ! I dehydrated a big batch for snacking and saving for winter soups etc. unfortunately I’ve already snacked on half the batch 🌚 I’ll be needing more this weekend. My roasted tomato’s and Peach Truck Peaches 🤩 Best tomato’s in town and they are regeneratively grown with non chemical methods. Big thanks to for healing the soil while growing healing foods for us! Come see them this weekend at 2nd Street Market Saturday 9-3, Sunday 11-3 or at Oakwood Market, Saturday 9-1! 🍅✨

02/08/2023

Finished, strained rose tincture and a fairy in the flower garden 🧚‍♀️✨

27/07/2023

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27/07/2023

Fan-girling 👏👏👏✨✨✨✨

22/07/2023

Herbs and flowers ✨