Welcome to the very first episode of The Relished Garden Podcast! I’m Claire, and I’m so glad you’re here.

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In today’s episode, I’m sharing the path that led me to start Relish Gardens, where we build and maintain beautiful gardens in the Seattle region. In this episode, I reflect on how early creative obsessions like building Barbie dream houses, rearranging my bedroom, and watching Martha Stewart shaped what it means to create a beautiful life. I walk through how beauty, food, and community shaped my philosophy of living a garden-centered life, and why gardening still feels like a form of play.

In this episode, I cover:

• The way a childhood love of fashion, design, and creating beautiful spaces eventually led me to garden design
• What it was like growing up in Northern California with access to homegrown food, and how that sparked a lifelong love of edible gardening and seasonal eating
• Why gardening feels like play, and how it gives me the same sense of satisfaction I got from playing as a kid
• How reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver helped reshape my ideas about homesteading and led me toward a more community-sufficiency approach to growing food
• Why creating beautiful spaces has always felt essential to me, and how early influences like Martha Stewart helped me see the power of everyday aesthetics

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Until next time, I hope you find something in your garden to truly relish. 

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Each week, we’ll talk about how to design and care for a garden that’s beautiful, personal, and built for the life you actually live. You’ll hear real stories and advice from the gardens we design and maintain, to help you create a space that cares for you and the people who call it home. It’s about slowing down and relishing in the abundance and ever-changing nature of your garden, one season at a time.

Let’s dig in.