Our story

First meeting in an MMORPG video game, we followed each other into digital battle for years before deciding we should meet in person (almost 20 years later, we think it went well!). Thanks to near-daily seasonal walks at Tarbin Gardens while living in our first little Franklin, NH apartment, we were fortunate to stay immersed for years in learning and beautiful landscape inspiration.

We always knew we wanted to garden together, so after we found our own little slice of fairytale in Grafton in 2019, we planted whatever we could get our hands on. This included mushrooms - which spiraled beyond a hobby into basement production for retail, and a culture bank of native mushroom strains found on local trees.

After two seasons selling conventionally grown gourmet mushrooms at farmer's markets, we discontinued resource-heavy methods requiring disposables and began looking to the forest for inspiration instead. Shrub and flower plantings intended to support wildlife and bring joy to the yard have continued to expand annually into cutting patches and propagation stock.

With workshops, ongoing tests of native mushroom strains, outdoor grow tent invention project, ever-expanding gardens, and a farm stand built in August 2026, we're busy investing in what we want to become. Our focus changes at times as we learn, but passion for the growing things around us anchors us into the work we're doing.