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  • 10 Easy Cut Flowers To Grow From Seed This Year!

    Ready to start your own cut flower garden? In this post, I will share my top 10 easy to grow cut flowers you can start from seed! What Are Cut Flowers? Cut flowers are simply grown for the ...

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    10 Easy Cut Flowers To Grow From Seed This Year!
  • Easy Cold-Process Lavender and Mint Shampoo Bar For Dry Hair

    Cold-process shampoo bars are easy to make at home and have great benefits for your hair. Made with moisturizing ingredients, these shampoo bars are the perfect for dry and dull winter ...

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    Easy Cold-Process Lavender and Mint Shampoo Bar For Dry Hair
  • How To Start Your Own Urban Cut Flower Stand: A Blooming Business

    Ready to start your own cut flower stand? In this post, I will share my step-by-step guide to show you everything you need to know to successfully grow a mini cut flower farm and flower stand right in ...

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    How To Start Your Own Urban Cut Flower Stand: A Blooming Business
  • Vulnerability, Persistence and Patience

    It's been a while since I have written an informal update, perhaps the first ever, for a reflective post and peeled back the onion to shed a few layers. Well, I feel now is as good a time as ever to ...

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    Vulnerability, Persistence and Patience
  • How To Care For Radiant Red Roses

    Red roses are the epitome of love, passion, and beauty, captivating hearts for centuries. With their vibrant hues and intoxicating fragrance, red roses hold a special place in the world of flowers. In ...

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How to Spark Gardening Inspiration During Winter

December 28, 2021 · Gardening

How to spark gardening inspiration during winter.

A quick list of helpful tips to find and keep your garden inspiration alive in the midst of winter!

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How To Attract Pollinators To Your Garden

December 23, 2021 · Gardening

Attract pollinators to your garden

Curious how you can help to attract more pollinators to your garden? Well, here are five easy steps to make your garden more inviting to your friendly pollinator neighbors!

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Dahlia Tubers: How to Succeed at Planting and Harvesting

December 22, 2021 · Bulb Care, Gardening

This post has tips and tricks on how to care for your dahlia tubers. My history with planting and harvesting dahlia tubers is bittersweet, partly due to the fact that I failed in several ways with this beautiful plant. When…

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5 Beautiful Climbing Roses and Vines for Your Arbor

December 16, 2021 · Gardening, Pruning

This post is all about beautiful climbing roses and vines to help make your garden pop! One of my all time favorite vertical climbers are roses! Two years ago I planted my first climbing roses (as bare root roses-meaning no…

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12 Gift Ideas for the Gardener in Your Life

December 10, 2021 · Gardening

The best gifts for a gardener

In honor of the 12 Days of Christmas, I decided to share twelve of my top garden must haves. A few of these I really wished I had purchased sooner due to the amount of time (and blisters) they save!…

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First Snow of the Year in New England 2021

December 9, 2021 · Gardening, My Garden Updates

I was incredibly excited yesterday when I looked out my window during a break at work to see tiny snowflakes waltzing their way through the sky. In all my excitement I ran down the stairs, threw on my jacket and…

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A quiet winter week spent sowing seeds indoors and potting up early spring plants. This video is less about doing and more about being: moving gently, noticing small moments, and letting winter be a season of calm work. I hope it brings you a little warmth and ease. 🤍🌿

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Thank you kindly for supporting my channel so I can continue to keep providing content… and growing my garden! :)
Thank you for all the love, patience, and thoughtful messages while I took a step back. This season has been about slowing down, healing, and practicing what I believe in, living gently and intentionally. If you’re feeling called to pause and fill your cup, I hope you give yourself that permission. I’m so grateful for this community. 🤍

P.S. I hope you enjoyed seeing a little bit of what I was up to this past fall. I'm feeling ready to enter the next garden season with renewed optimism. 

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Welcome to BirchSalt! My name is Kate and I am a nurse by background turned gardening enthusiast. I take inspiration from all around me in the great state of Maine. Hence how the BirchSalt motto was born, "Inspiration From Land & Sea".

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