Our Story

Welcome to Grove Wisdom

A meaning-filled shopping experience with earth-generous, high-quality, and memorable gifts that keep on giving to you and the earth. Essential goods and gifts inspired by nature for your well-lived life. Feel good as you do good. With love for the planet.

Who are you?

As a kid, I collected nature trinkets on walks. I was the first up the tree. I got intentionally lost in the woods and spent hours just looking at the natural world around me just to see what I could see.

When I was a teen and young adult, I worked in a garden nursery and even ran a campus lawn and garden crew. But when I got my own home, taking care of my little bit of earth suddenly felt intimidating. Local nurseries had plants and resources to execute all kinds of plans, but I didn’t have one. Most of their plants were trendy.

I wanted to protect my home from pests
I wanted good things from the garden in our lives
I wanted something that was good for the planet
I was stuck

How could I take care of the little plot of nature I was now responsible for, that wouldn’t come back and bite me every season, in five years, or even by the time my mortgage was paid off?

There was too much to think about, so I let my yard sit for 5 years, planted in pots a bit, and composted everything I could. I live in Texas, so it was a slow path toward brown dead grass and extreme water problems.

Then a friend, also in Texas, showed me around her garden. And she was doing exactly what I had in mind. Her garden produced all kinds of edible things.

She had everything!

pollinating flowers,
Native trees,
Berry brambles,
Grape vines,
a mini orchard,
a gorgeous vegetable garden,
herbs for her kitchen
a mini greenhouse
and a design that made everything look like it had always been there and would be there for a long time!

I asked her where I should start and she gave me one new term to do my own research. Permaculture.

It was a lot. Composting toilets! And again, I felt, intimidated.

Enter Regenerative Gardening. It’s a step toward permaculture. It’s a step to get me back into our own yards today, while learning all that permaculture can do for my city when I’m ready. [Flood prevention, Fire prevention, Drought Prevention, Water Table restoration, soil restoration. If the soil dies, we die.]

What if we could make small choices every day that help the bees, give rest to migratory birds, and nourish the soil?

What if our love for trees and growing things could be the start of an old/new way of giving the earth a hand in her own healing, save some birds from extinction, and contribute to the solution of hive collapse. We need to feel good as we do good too!

Feel good as you do good. Just ask the grove.

Where did our name, Grove Wisdom, come from?

I returned to my first love. Trees.

You should have seen the first conversation I had with a local arborist! He thought I had 4 heads. No homeowners were asking about tree reproduction and excess pollen!

And when I learned a grove was one of the most efficient and effective ecosystems for creating healthy biodiversity, and it only took a few native species to produce abundance for all kinds of life.

Intimidation started to fade, the trees were showing the way.

My job was now to belong. Join my ecosystem, support the life in it. Be apart of the ecosystem of my own backyard.

Rather than plant whatever I saw was trending in my neighborhood, I could listen to what the land needed and build from there. My little yard already had the best start. A grove. It was time to learn from its wisdom, I just had to cooperate.

I had that feeling that I couldn't be the only one. That there were lots of us who wanted to care for the earth from our own backyards. People who recycled and investigated bottle-free shampoo. People who treasure life and are curious about how small science-based choices could change their whole neighborhood. Fight draught. Protect our water table. Even restore it. Restore the earth, one backyard at a time.

Grove Wisdom was born.

How does our shop help the earth?

We are committed to walk with you in your earth-loving journey.

With every purchase you make, you can feel confident that you're giving back to the earth. Grove Wisdom partnered with Planet to offer carbon neutral shipping with every order. Planet partners with organizations invested in Carbon harvesting, ocean health, and you guessed it, planting trees. And we're just getting started. We intend to grow our climate commitment as we learn.

Shop our American Bird Collection and 1% of all purchases are donated to the American Bird Conservancy. Visit their site or education and action steps you can take today to help. We love ABC's strategic response and are delighted to work with an organization with boots on the ground and real solutions.

Every purchase gives back to the earth so you don't have to wait to help.

This is who we are today. We don't yet know all of who we are. There's a bit of a mystery, even to us. We'll let you in on the discovery as we figure out who we're becoming.

Why Grove Wisdom?

At Grove Wisdom, there’s room for anyone who finds this whole things intimidating or lonely or overwhelming.

We're here to celebrate our love for nature, and our backyard ecosystems.
We stand for regenerative gardening practices that will be good for the planet for a long time.
We champion artists and regenerative gardeners, collaborations and thoughtful design.
We offer made to order eco-friendly goods with stylish elevated designs because nature is your happy place.
Did I mention we love trees?
We're here to grow, together.

Growth can be extraordinary