The Gardener’s Post

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Your personal garden coach, by post. Bite-sized garden coaching arriving at your front door each month. Not your inbox. Not an algorithm. Addressed just to you.

Orders open November 8th · First issue ships mid-December

Think of it as a garden coach in your mailbox. Once a month, a handmade envelope arrives addressed just to you, with bite-sized coaching for the season you’re in and something unexpected.

Something tactile and beautiful to hold, read slowly, and keep. Analog on purpose, and arriving the month before the season begins, right when you need it.

This is not a subscription box. It is not a newsletter. It is correspondence.

the kind that asks you to slow down.

every month

What arrives in the envelope

Six handmade pieces. The details stay a secret until it lands in your mailbox.

Hawthorn berries in cupped hands
01

A letter from the garden

A personal letter from one small piece of Colorado land: what the season is asking and what the plants are teaching.

Field guide cover
02

A guide for the season

A field guide on a different gardening topic each month, to deepen your practice and grow your garden knowledge. Worth keeping.

Cortney holding dried grain stalks
03

A tending list

Your garden to-do list for the month: what to tend, notice, and offer back, in the garden, the home, outside, and within.

Recipe card detail
04

A recipe card

One seasonal preparation (a tea, tonic, tincture, steam or oxymel) from plants you can find or grow.

Postcard detail
05

A postcard

Art that belongs outside a screen. Keep it, pin it to the wall, or send it on to someone who needs it.

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06

A monthly surprise

A little surprise and delight tucked in each month. Small things to make you smile.

who it’s for

For the One

No gardening experience required. You do not have to have it figured out. You just have to feel the pull.

  • For those who want slower, more connected living.
  • For anyone tired of life online who would rather hold something real.
  • For the ones drawn to nature but not quite sure how to begin.
  • For the plant-curious and season-curious.
  • For anyone deepening their relationship with the natural world.
  • That is most of us. That is exactly who it is made for.
Cortney in her garden holding fresh carrots Cortney picking apples
hello, I’m Cortney

Meet your garden coach

I’m a garden designer, garden coach and Colorado Master Gardener. I tend two acres of recovering land in North Fort Collins, a former horse pasture slowly finding its way back to life.

Through Mother Gardener I design flowing, ecologically rooted gardens and help people tend their land with more intention. I believe gardens are not projects to be completed, but relationships to be tended.

The Gardener’s Post is how I get to be by your side in your garden. Each month, the letter I wish someone had sent me: what to notice, what to tend, and a little wonder waiting inside.

— Cortney
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How the first issue unfolds

SEP 26

The waitlist opens.

NOV 8

Orders open. The waitlist gets the founding member link.

DEC 1

Founding member pricing ends. Price becomes $19.99 a month.

DEC 7

Last day to subscribe for the January issue.

DEC 13–14

The January issue ships from Fort Collins.

DEC 18–22

It lands in your mailbox.

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Sign up before the 8th of the month to receive the current month's report; subscriptions created on or after the 8th will begin the following month. Issues ship on the 13th or 14th and land in mailboxes between the 18th and 22nd. For the January issue, sign up by December 7th.

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