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Welcome to Meaghan Grows!

I share gardening how-tos, recipes, and tutorials while working towards my own permaculture homestead. My hope is this site can teach you something new and help you to make positive changes toward sustainability and control over your consumption. Maybe it can even inspire you to reconnect with the rhythms of nature and get your hands in the soil.

Meaghan Grows started in 2020 to help millennials learn traditional skills that give them power over their food supply and consumption. Because if anyone should be interested in homesteading, food sovereignty and reclaiming agency in the midst of our broken capitalist system, it’s a broke-ass millennial.

Find gardening tips, homesteading how-tos, healthy, nourishing recipes, and more!

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.” – Henry David Thoreau, Walden

About Meaghan

I’m Meaghan, the titular person behind Meaghan Grows – gardener, beginning homesteader, recipe developer, writer and photographer.

I was born in Illinois and, minus stints in the UK and Canada, I’m a lifelong Midwesterner. I currently call Ohio home. I’m in zone 6a, gardening in a tiny city backyard. Real tiny: about 5,000 sq. ft. We have two raised beds and a whole mess of containers. if I can grow food, you can too.

When I’m not busy blogging, I’m working on my PhD or hanging out with my dog and partner. I’m so glad you stopped by Meaghan Grows, and I hope you’ll come back and hang out!

About Meaghan Grows

Here, we grow food. we grow knowledge. and we grow ourselves.

This is modern millennial homesteading – We’re serious about sustainability, food sovereignty, ethical consumption and stewarding our relationship to the earth and its creatures. Not much else, though.

What we believe

Evolution hasn’t caught up to the way we live now. People are sick, stressed and unhappy.

I can’t fix that. I’m not here to claim a garden can cure your chronic illness or your need to work three jobs to make ends meet.

This isn’t a return-to-your-roots, self-sufficiency-minded, off-grid homesteading kind of site. I don’t believe you should have to do it all on your own. I believe humans are meant to thrive in community, not out of it.

But we thrive in community with people, animals and plants. So too does community go all the way down to pollinators like carpenter bees and monarchs and funghi like the mycorrhizae that improve soil health.

I believe we have a deep need to stick our hands in the dirt – to find our way back to the garden, nourishing our bodies and our souls.

Side view of Meaghan Grows' two garden beds, teeming with plants in the height of summer.

For something that quite literally nourishes us, why do so few of us relegate space and attention to growing and preparing food? Why are vegetable gardens not the heart of our home landscapes? If we push what nourishes us metaphorically and literally out of sight, what other aspects of are lives are we doing this for too? Likewise, what are we pushing away that we need for our wellbeing? What else deserves to be brought from the margins to the center of our lives? 

I’m here to help you find your way back to the garden – for nourishment, for wellbeing, for connection to the rhythms of nature and for joy.

What you’ll find here

  • Beginner gardening tips, successes and failures
  • Recipes that heal – your body and sometimes just your soul
  • Homesteading how-tos for every stage from pipe dream to rolling acreage, without the heavy dose of religion or right-wing individualism

So if you’re interested in anything from a recipe for sourdough pizza to a how to set up a composting system to beginner gardening tips, stay a while. You’re my people. You don’t need a farm or a graduate degree to get started.

Here, we’re growing a deeper connection to our foodshed, a respect for how we nourish our bodies and the land and, always, an over-the-top love for plants.

Come grow with me!

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Herbal tea blending is one of my favorite ways to Herbal tea blending is one of my favorite ways to work with plants – be they ones I grow, wildcraft, or purchase.

I mixed up this blend this week, one I'm calling 'Creatures of the Moon' because it's full of uterus-friendly herbs like red raspberry leaf, while the hibiscus adds a lovely pink color.

What are your favorite tea blends?

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Treasure hunting in a wayward and wild August gard Treasure hunting in a wayward and wild August garden

#garden #slowsimpleseasonal #seasonalliving #backyardgarden #followingtheseasons
Warm afternoon tomatoes – edible sunshine ☀️ Warm afternoon tomatoes – edible sunshine ☀️

These are last year's Dr. Wyche's. Some critter in my yard is very hungry and isn't leaving much for me to harvest. I feel honored to be able to share, but it sure would be nice if they'd leave me some.

The thing is, the garden is actually doing me a favor. As always, it knows what I need better than I do. As much as I want to spend whole afternoons harvesting and processing and storing up home-canned food, cooking delicious things to share with frinends, that's not the season I'm in. 

There will be future gardens with much more successful tomatoes. 

Just a moment of reframing and encouragement if you're also struggling with a certain crop or not enough time to tend your garden in the way you'd wish. #TomatoTuesday
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Herbal tea blending is one of my favorite ways to Herbal tea blending is one of my favorite ways to work with plants – be they ones I grow, wildcraft, or purchase.

I mixed up this blend this week, one I'm calling 'Creatures of the Moon' because it's full of uterus-friendly herbs like red raspberry leaf, while the hibiscus adds a lovely pink color.

What are your favorite tea blends?

#urbangarden #urbangardening #greenwitch #gardenwitch  #herbaltea #tisane #hedgewitch #kitchenwitch #homegrown #seasonalliving #plantgrowmake #theartofslowliving #livethelittlethings #herbalism #herbalmedicine #teablending
Treasure hunting in a wayward and wild August gard Treasure hunting in a wayward and wild August garden

#garden #slowsimpleseasonal #seasonalliving #backyardgarden #followingtheseasons
Warm afternoon tomatoes – edible sunshine ☀️ Warm afternoon tomatoes – edible sunshine ☀️

These are last year's Dr. Wyche's. Some critter in my yard is very hungry and isn't leaving much for me to harvest. I feel honored to be able to share, but it sure would be nice if they'd leave me some.

The thing is, the garden is actually doing me a favor. As always, it knows what I need better than I do. As much as I want to spend whole afternoons harvesting and processing and storing up home-canned food, cooking delicious things to share with frinends, that's not the season I'm in. 

There will be future gardens with much more successful tomatoes. 

Just a moment of reframing and encouragement if you're also struggling with a certain crop or not enough time to tend your garden in the way you'd wish. #TomatoTuesday
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