About Maggie - From Soil to Soul

Hey Gardener, I’m Maggie

I’m so glad you’ve found your way here!

I’m a Canadian gardener from the Manitoba Prairies (Zone 3b), passionate plant mama, backyard chicken-keeper, co-host of The Grow Guide podcast and founder of From Soil to Soul.

Growing my own food became a key part of my life in 2016. That year, my now husband surprised me with a greenhouse for my birthday.

I knew very little about gardening and naively jumped in head first. Right away, I fell completely in love.

Since then, we’ve expanded our garden, added chickens to our homestead, built dozens of raised beds, created a three-bay composting system and built a new greenhouse…with at least a dozen other projects in there I’m sure I’m missing!

My Philosophy On Organic Gardening

When to organically fertilize your garden

My Fav Blog Posts

February 1, 2022 10 Of The Easiest Cut Flowers To Grow From Seed For Beginners Growing beautiful cut flowers doesn't have to be hard. These are 10 of the easiest cut flowers for beginners you can grow from seed. Flower farmer vibes!

December 2, 2022 Best Tips For Building A DIY Backyard Greenhouse For Cold Weather Climates After building two backyard greenhouses in our Canadian Zone 3 climate, we're ready to share some of the tips we've learned along the way. Here's our best tips to consider

October 31, 2022 Easy Vegan Borscht Soup Hearty, earthy and warming, this vegan borscht soup is reminiscent in flavour of the classic version, but packed with even more delicious veggies.

March 5, 2022 Complete Raised Bed Gardening Guide For Beginners Your comprehensive guide to raised bed gardening, covering the benefits, common mistakes, how to build a DIY raised bed, what to plant and layout ideas. This is everything you need

April 18, 2022 The Master Backyard Chicken Keeping Checklist The A-Z of everything you need to keep chickens in your backyard. From the chicken coop to food and other key tools and supplies. This is your master checklist.

When I’m Not In The Garden…

You’ll likely still find me on our little Prairie homestead with my husband, Justin and our dog Pepper. Even though I grew up in the city, I feel like the country life is where I belong now.

I love spending time outside hiking and exploring the trails near our home. I’m also a lover of yoga, running, Peloton and pilates.

Justin and I are always tackling a new project, both in and out of the garden. We love home renos and DIYs. You’ll likely find us enjoying a cocktail while working on something of the sort.

What else can I tell you? I’m a bit of a tea addict (we have an entire drawer in the kitchen dedicated to tea), I love travelling and spent lots of time travelling India and South-East Asia in my early 20s and my background is in marketing & communications.

I’m also an avid cook and love creating new, healthy plant-based recipes using my garden harvest. Many of which you’ll find here on the blog!