Failure is a mindset (gardening update)

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 “I could teach anybody, even people in this room, no intended, to be a farmer.” The former New York mayor continued, “It’s a process. You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn.”


Week 4 of the garden project taught me that there’s more to the process than dig, seed, water, reap. Two days after we planted the garden with starters, they are dying. Did we fertilize too much? No enough? Did we water too much? Not enough? Was the ground too acidic? Not acidic enough? Too cold at night? Too hot in the day? Or is this just the nursery fragility that comes that these little starters will grow out of?


A friend texted me this quote from Michael Bloombergs 2016 presidential campaign. “I’m sorry Zach! Don’t despair. I think it was Micheal Bloomberg who famously insulted farmers by stating that anybody can put some seeds in the ground and grow plants. It is actually a sophisticated art. One that is extremely local and most that do it well are able to do so because of generational knowledge. Keep trying man, it’s your first go around….”


Well said Valentine Carstensen 


I have always taught my kids two important lesson that I now gave to live out myself.


1. Failure is a mindset. “You are either winning or you are learning.” You only lose when you fail to take the lesson. Looks like I’m taking my Ls right now in the garden. 


2. “If you can’t have fun while you are bad, you’ll never be good.” You have to find a way to enjoy the learning process where you are struggling and reaping less than you sow. Otherwise, you won’t have the perseverance to continue while things are hard. The hard part is the learning learning. Once you are through that and things are growing exponentially, it’s easy to have fun. 


So here’s to choosing gratitude for the free energy of the Sun, the opportunity to stand before the exciting truth of plant biology, and promise of a harvest for those who preserver to the end.




















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