Complimentary Blueberry Juice

I published the first complimentary blueberry juice on January 15 2023, so in a short while I’ll be starting the 4th year of this writing experiment. I do enjoy doing this, just having a space to engage in the process of writing and offload whichever problems I’m working through, or compiling some photos. I don’t plan my posts and just try and make a point to publish every Wednesday.

But for this inaugural 2026 post I’d like to ask my readers for suggestions or comments. It could be a topic you’d like to see, or something you’d like to hear more about. It could be what you like about what I write here, or some question you have that you’d like me to answer. Leave a comment down below or feel free to email me.

Me beside the Pehr Kalm Elm Tree in Tukru, Finland, planted in approx 1750 as part of a botanical garden with over 300 specimens. The tree is potentially one of Turku’s oldest, as it survived the catastrophic Turku fire of 1827.

I’ve read a number of great books recently, I could write about those as well, and as I sit here about to tackle analyzing last season’s data and preparing this year’s schedule, there’s a lot of photos that I could pull and write about for probably a few months.

For a few years I’ve thought to make a YouTube channel, in the same sort of spirit as this website, just uploading stuff once a week, with no real plan in mind. Surely I don’t intend to go all “content creator” and “influencer” but rather just share what is happening in the garden and the things that interest me. I don’t know that I really want to do this, but it does cross my mind from time to time.

Lastly on the more philosophical, winter is a time for reflection, and there’s a lot to be said about mindset when it comes to farming or gardening, how these ideas can impact positively or negatively, how they affect a business, and finding the right ideas and philosophies that work for you in pursuit of this challenging work. These are interwoven with the philosophies and ideas of life itself, the human-centric viewpoint on plants, what role the farmer or gardener has in relation to all of it, and the decisions we make while we interact with the living things that surround us.

I hope we all have a great 2026!

Graham

thanks for reading complimentary blueberry juice