Join us for a retreat to cultivate your garden dreams. Whether you are new to gardening or a seasoned gardener in search of community and inspiration, you’ll be in good company!
What’s In Store:
Connection time with fellow plant lovers
Yoga to ground you
Guided visualization to help you manifest your dream garden
Mindful walk for inspiration
Journal time for reflection
Creative activities to help you plan your garden
Hands-on gardening time
What to Bring:
Water bottle
Journal and pen
Yoga mat and blanket if you prefer to use your own
Your own gardening gloves and tools if you prefer to use your own
Comfy clothes
What You’ll Leave with:
Clarity on what you want and what you can achieve this year
Tips for getting out of your own way
A vision board of your dream garden
Your bespoke garden plan
A plant list tailored to your vision
Recommended gardening resources
A garden planning process that you can use time and time again
Confidence in your ability to cultivate your dream garden
Choose Your Experience:
Group retreat for $155 (meals included)
What is a group retreat? A shared retreat experience with others who also signed up to attend the group retreat that features the above activities which are led by a facilitator.
Self-guided retreat for $78 (meals not included; add “Meals Add-On for Self-Guided Retreats” below if you’d like to have meals included)
What is a self-guided retreat? A solo retreat experience that you will do at your own pace and in your own space at Verdant Center. You will have access to much of the same content as the group experience but will guide yourself through it and will not be interacting with the group.
If you’d like to have meals provided during your self-guided retreat experience, please add this item to your cart.
Retreat Facilitator
Nat Flammia is a strategic, results-driven facilitator and an experienced florist who brings a rare blend of creativity, operational know-how, and people-centered leadership to everything she does. She is an organized, thoughtful communicator known for helping teams envision and implement bespoke systems and collaborative programming that drive meaningful impact.
Nat holds a Master of Library and Information Science from Simmons University and a BA in Psychology and Spanish from Wake Forest University. She grew up in her family’s boutique New York flower shop, worked as a florist in Boston, and was a member of the Bloom Patrol at BELL Garden in Nashville. Nat is proficient in Spanish and dabbles in French and Italian. Time spent in nature or cooking is a source of energy, connection, and joy for Nat.
Grounded in a lifelong connection to creative work and sustainable practices, Nat values working with people of positive purpose. She chases the alchemy that happens when we foster connections between people, their wild ideas, and the resources they need—whether in professional learning spaces or community-based initiatives. As a learner, she’s curious about regenerative farming, dance, and how to repair stuff. When she’s not designing arrangements or facilitating programs, Nat can be found hiking, gardening, exploring Nashville’s food scene, tending to her senior dog, or immersed in a good book.
Retreat Yoga Practitioner
Amy Pierce is a yoga teacher and artist who lives in East Nashville. She has been teaching yoga since 2013, after her graduation from Three Trees Yoga and Healing Arts in Washington. Amy believes that your body is your oldest friend and that we should treat ourselves with kindness. She builds yoga classes around the idea of honoring your body and its wisdom and cultivating a stronger awareness of the effects of lived experiences on your body. She loves the smell of forests, the sound of cats eating crunchy kibble, and she strongly believes a matriarchal society will be the key to a better distribution of resources that helps heal our relationship with each other and with the earth.