Beautifully landscaped and situated steps from the home, kitchen gardens by The Nourished Garden feature edible herbs and vegetables and emphasize a calming connection with the outdoors.
Water. Fertilize. Mow. Weed.
It’s a cycle common to many trying to keep their lawn lush with green grass. A cycle that can sometimes feel like a battle.
Corinne Beirne thinks there’s a better way to love your landscaping. Better not just for our homes, but for our health as well.
“If we could turn toasty grass into a place where something productive and beautiful can be grown, that’s a win,” she says.
Corinne owns The Nourished Garden, which designs and implements kitchen gardens and coaches homeowners on growing their own herbs and produce.
“A kitchen garden is a beautifully designed space that is front and center in your yard. It has the foods you eat in it: lettuce, carrots, tomatoes. It has a beautiful archway; it’s also an entertaining space,” she says.
Owner Corinne Beirne loves working in the garden with her children, Kennedy and Beau, finding that “there’s something different” about eating food that they’ve grown at home.
Under Corinne’s practiced guidance, gardens are no longer relegated to the back corner of the lot, but become beautiful landscape features with raised beds, trellises, and plentiful plantings mere steps from the back door.
“Have you ever had a recipe that required basil, and you went to the grocery store to pick up a pack of $8 basil then used four leaves and the rest sat in the refrigerator? It’s a waste of money, and that basil probably sat on a truck for a week before it got to you,” Corinne laments.
“With a kitchen garden, if I’m making a salad or pasta sauce tonight, I’m gonna just step outside and pinch off what I need.”
Her passion for gardening grew out of a search for calm and quiet in the midst of a busy lifestyle as a working mother of two.
“I am a yoga instructor, and I’ve been teaching people how to calm their nervous systems for the last several years. I discovered that plants and gardening can really help with our nervous systems and help us heal in ways that we can’t in a yoga studio.”
Lingering health issues led Corinne to deep research on herbalism, gardening, and how to restore her own well-being.
“I became very fascinated with growing my own food in addition to growing my own medicine. It started with herbs, and then I wanted cleaner tomatoes and cucumbers that didn’t have pesticides all over them.
“I started doing this gardening work for my own nervous system. It’s not about the tomatoes. It’s about getting outside and honoring your circadian rhythm with sunlight and fresh air,” she explains.
“I’ve become hyper focused on how to create an environment for ourselves where we live well. That means slowing down. What are ways we can do that? The research says to be outside and to eat healthy food.”
As her knowledge expanded, Corinne became a resource for friends, family, and neighbors, and eventually, The Nourished Garden took root. Education is a large component of the business, and you’ll often find Corinne hosting planting workshops at local garden centers or leading children’s gardening activities at farmers markets.
“A lot of people want to garden, but they don’t know how,” she says. “They don’t know where to start.”
The Nourished Garden ensures that designs are beautiful, as well as functional, so that kitchen gardens become entertaining spaces for family and friends.
The Nourished Garden’s full-service model — including landscape design, raised bed construction and installation, planting assistance, and monthly follow-ups — means a kitchen garden is achievable for almost anyone with space and desire, no experience required.
“If you want to grow food, I’m gonna hold your hand; I’m gonna show you how. We’re going to grow what you want with your vision, but I’m going to make it easy,” she says.
“My gardens are intensively planted. They’re bordered with herbs for organic pest protection. The pests really don’t like the smelly, stinky herbs like basil, rosemary, and thyme. And then we intensively plant on top of each other tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, lettuce, radishes, sugar snap peas, all of it. And they grow beautifully. It actually makes watering easier with all those root systems together; they don’t need as much watering because there’s not as much dry space in between.”
In Corinne’s own home garden, she’s found a beautiful refuge from life’s hustle and bustle and a place to connect with her children, ages 5 and 14.
“My son is 5. He was horrified when I put peas on his plate for a few nights for dinner. But now we grow peas together, and he sits in the garden and eats the peas right off of the vine.
“That is a beautiful thing. There’s something different about eating food that you grew from a seed,” she says.
Fragrant herbs such as thyme, rosemary, and basil outline Corinne’s garden beds for natural protection from pests.
Involving the entire family makes a kitchen garden that much more impactful.
“It’s a place where children can reconnect with nature in this digital world and find an excuse to be outside. They learn how to care for something that is alive and to nurture it. It teaches patience.
“It’s also taught me and my kids to appreciate the bees. They’re not just a nuisance anymore. They are the reason that we have the fruits of our labor.”
The Nourished Garden’s Instagram account (@the_nourished_garden) serves as another avenue for sharing expertise and planting tips and getting to know Corinne herself.
Backyard gardens made easy with The Nourished Garden’s full-service approach
Step One: Planning
Owner Corinne will identify the most sunny and practical location and design the garden layout.
Working with the homeowner, she’ll create a vision board for what they want to grow. “I really listen to, ‘What do you eat?’ If you don’t eat beets, we’re not going to plant beets.”
Step Two: Installation
The landscape team prepares the site and installs the raised boxes, trellises, and irrigation.
Step Three: Planting
“So I come out, and I coach and teach people, and I plant with them,” says Corinne, who supplies the
seeds and seedlings to start the garden.
Step Four: Follow-Up
Clients of The Nourished Garden receive monthly return visits for planting checks, coaching, and troubleshooting with Corinne. “I visit once a month until … they feel empowered to grow on their own.”
“I’m trying to use the platform to teach and educate, and to reach people,” she says.
“Learning to harvest herbs and food when they’re in season and just slowing down — it’s something that people, I’m finding, are really thirsty for.”
Above all, Corinne wants her clients and the local community to feel empowered to garden on their own in order to reap the culinary and wellness benefits, connect with nature, and feel the sense of accomplishment that comes with harvesting your own food.
“I’m really passionate about teaching people. If you’re making popcorn tonight, chop up some rosemary and melt it in the butter and drizzle on popcorn. Go use your herbs and make them a part of everyday life. It’s not only medicinally (beneficial), but just being outside and the feeling of pulling something from the garden and eating it slows your nervous system down. A slower nervous system is what we all need right now for health.”
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