Transforming Florida Yards

I’m so excited to share that I’ve signed a contract with Routledge for a new book about creative gardening as a therapeutic practice! 🥳🌱🎨

I’d love to feature your garden-design journey. If you have sketches or plans alongside photos of your garden, please send them my way, along with a short quote about how designing your garden has felt therapeutic for you.

I’ll send you a release to review and sign before anything is included in the book. I’d be so happy to celebrate your creativity and garden! 💚🌸🌈

Feeling so grateful for the amazing people who come to stay at the farm, learn about permaculture and food forestry, and share their ideas and energy with us. Every visit brings a little more connection, inspiration, and joy. My heart is full. 🌿💚🤓🌸🌈

Let’s create food forests together! 🌱🌸🌈

Join us for a family-friendly, 10-day, 72-hour Permaculture Design Course at Pike Food Forest. Learn hands-on in a living 2-acre food forest with daily site tours and on-site tastings.

📍 Jupiter Farms, Florida
📅 April 16–25, 2027 | 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

Kids welcome! Parents and children can learn and earn certificates together.

Step Up approved; PEP reimbursement may be available for eligible families.

Local to Jupiter Farms? 🧑‍🌾👩‍🌾👨‍🌾

We can bring the learning to your land and work with you to create a food forest on-site. Just message me to discuss more.

Find the course in EMA: Pike Wellness, LLC; Elective Courses; Gardening/Horticultural Lessons (Catalog ID 20117807).

🌺 $5 Food Forest Plant Sale 🌺

📅 Pick up on or before Monday, Oct 5th, 3:30–5:30 PM

📍 17813 Bridle Ct., Jupiter, FL 33478

✨ Advance orders now open! ✨

🌈 Everything is $5, including potted plants. Cuttings, slips, or bare-root seedlings are bundled 5 for $5.

Our hope is to use these funds to pay for winter caroling/ singing lessons for the kids!!!

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🙏 Please order 1-2 days ahead so the kids can help organize and prepare the orders

☔ Rain or shine in a covered enclosure.

🚗 Please park along the road and walk back toward the pool enclosure. The kids will load your order with a cart.

🌱 FOR SALE
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🪴POTTED PLANTS

Mysore raspberry (2)
Muscadine Grape - Carlos (2)
Lemongrass (1)
Juanilama (6)
Bird pepper (2)
Purple passion fruit, 1-gallon (50)
Turmeric (5)
Longevity spinach (10)
Gumbo limbo trees, 4 feet tall (4)
Pagoda, nectar for swallowtail (12)
Blue butterfly pea, 1-gallon (7)
Tamarind (1)
Mimosa powder puff trees (5)
Cranberry hibiscus (30)
Mother-in-law’s tongue (1)
Poinciana Christmas bush (3)
Mulberry seedlings, bare root (20)
Red mombin (4)
Longan potted air layer (1)

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SUPPLIES
Plastic pots all sizes (free)

CUTTINGS AND BAREROOT PLANTS

🍌 Food Forest Trees/ Shrubs

Curry tree bare root (3)
Barbados gooseberry cuttings (5)
Lipstick tree cuttings (2)
PB fruit cuttings (3)
Jumbo leaf Chaya cuttings (1)
Maple leaf Chaya cuttings (10)
Flowering Chaya cuttings (20)
Red mombin cuttings (5)
Bareroot tropical almond (2)

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🥬 Spinaches, Leafy Greens, Tubers

Surinam spinach cuttings (5)
Longevity cuttings (5)
Katuk cuttings (10)
Picuda Chaya cuttings (2)
La lot bare root (20)
Cassava cuttings (10)
Boniato sweet potato cuttings (1)
Variegated golden pathos (1)
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🌿 Medicinal & Culinary Herbs

Cuban oregano cuttings (3)
Spanish thyme cuttings (1)
Fukien tea cuttings (5)
Brazilian joyweed bareroot (5)
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🌸 Flowering/ Ornamentals

Firespike cuttings (10)
Frangipani cuttings (5)
Brazilian red cloak cuttings (2)
Pagoda flower bare root (20)
Mexican sunflower cuttings (10)
Wedelia bare root (10)
Arabian jasmine cuttings (2)
Sweet almond cuttings (10)
Jatropha cuttings (3)
Magenta Coleus cuttings (2)

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🌴 Tropical Foliage & Ornamentals

Canna indica bare root (2)
Variegated aralia (Balfouriana) cuttings (2)
Heartleaf philodendron cuttings (2)
Giant crinum lily pups (2)
Wandering Jew bare root (5)
Dragon tree tri-color cuttings (1)
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🌿 Vines

Mexican flame vine cuttings (1)
Black pepper vine cuttings (1)

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🌾 Florida Native Plants

Elderberry cuttings (5)
Turk’s cap cuttings (10)
Bidens alba bare root (5)
Simpson’s stopper cuttings (2)
Fakahatchee grass starts (5)

Beautyberry pie!!! 💜🌿

Tastes like classic Florida in fall to me! It’s my 4th year making this. Beautyberries are naturally rich in colorful anthocyanins and other polyphenols! I love connecting foraging, food forest education, and cooking into one memorable dish.

Beautyberry Pie Recipe (one standard 9-inch pie)

Crust
Equal parts dates and almonds, blended until sticky and pressed firmly into a pie dish.

Filling
8 cups ripe beautyberries
5–6 cups water
⅔ cup sugar (or more to taste)
2 tsp agar powder
1 Tbsp lemon juice

Simmer the washed beautyberries in the water for about 20 minutes, gently crushing them as they cook. Strain through cheesecloth and measure out 4 cups of beautyberry juice.

Return the juice to the pot. Whisk in the sugar and agar, bring to a boil, and cook for about 1–2 minutes, stirring until the agar is completely dissolved. Remove from heat and stir in the lemon juice.

Pour into the date and almond crust. Allow to cool, then refrigerate until completely set.

The result is a lightly sweet, floral-tasting, jewel-colored dessert featuring native Florida. 💜

Biodiversity for the win!

Join us this Friday for an evening of herbs, fruit, and garden inspiration! 🌿🤓🌸

I’ll be speaking with the Palm Beach Rare Fruit Council about medicinal and culinary herbs, starting an herbal garden at home, practical uses, and a few simple recipes.

📅 Friday, September 11 at 7:00 PM
📍 Mounts Botanical Garden Auditorium
531 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach

Come for the talk and stay for the fruit tasting table, plant auction, seed exchange, BUT most importantly…for the friendships with fellow plant lovers! 🌱✨

Mushroom hunting at Pike Food Forest! 🍄‍🟫🍄🤓 We’re so grateful to our 4H member, Seven for teaching us about wood ear mushrooms. We found a ton! Next up is making soup while the kids learn about foraging and the fungal layer of a food forest. 🌿🥣

We have plenty of cuttings to share, and guests who stay with us are welcome to take home as many cuttings as they’d like…completely free. 💚

Come enjoy the food forest, discover plants you love, learn how they grow, and take propagation material home to expand your own edible landscape.

We’d love to help stock your food forest! 🌴🍃✂️

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Here are our three Jupiter Farms, FL Airbnb Suites. 🌈🦋

1.) Banana Blossom Suite
airbnb.com/h/banana-food-forest
King bed + twin daybed, private entrance, private bath
600sq ft

2.) Pineapple Patch Suite
airbnb.com/h/pineapple-food-forest
Queen bed, private entrance, private bath
300sqft

3.) Mango Manor Family Suite
airbnb.com/h/mango-food-forest
King bed + 2 twin bunkbeds, private entrance, private bath
500sq ft

Each suite includes:
• Private entrance
• Private bath
• Fast WiFi
• Dedicated workspace
• Kitchenette + dining area
• Quiet, nature-filled surroundings — ideal for focus and rest

Immensely grateful!! Our first Permaculture Design Course was a beautiful experience… the participants were such incredible people and brought the learning level to new heights!!!🙏🏼🥰🌸

‘Tis the season for SMOOTHIES!! 🍍🥥🌴🚲💚

So thankful to be a 4-H leader and get to share fun, hands-on experiences like this with our kids! Blender-bike smoothies at the Pike Food Forest are seriously one of my favorite family activities. 🤗🌱

Today’s creation: PIÑA COLADA SMOOTHIES! 🍍🥥😋 Pedal-powered, food-forest-inspired, and made with lots of laughs!

Nothing beats learning, growing, moving, and making something delicious together. 💚🚲🌿