New Year, New Changes, and Purple Cabbage

Happy New Year, everyone!  This year ushers in lots of changes for the garden and I.  At the end of December, Michelle started a new chapter of her life and will be going to culinary school in Ireland.  I will miss her a lot, but I am so excited for her as she begins this new adventure.Next semester, I'll be taking over some of the managerial roles for our garden.  I'm quite excited and looking forward to it!  We'll also have a better formed leadership team, which I am so very excited to work with.  We plan on meeting up the first or second week of school to pick and order seeds for the new season, but in the meantime I'll layout an initial plant placement guide.  What's that?  I'm sensing a spreadsheet or two will be in the works soon (spreadsheets hold a very special place in my heart). I last visited the garden a couple of weeks ago.  Now that it's colder, our plants aren't growing too much and there isn't a whole lot of work to do in the garden.  Therefore, when I go to the garden, it's for more of a visit than to work hard.  This is a nice reminder for me that while gardening can be a time to get dirty and dig up soil, it can also be a time for observation , reflection, and simply being.  For me, my December visits were a welcome break from the end-of-semester hustle and Finals.  And so I came to appreciate morning dew and purple cabbage even more.