Radicchio with spring green leaves, speckled with crimson-purple variegations, just starting to form a head and welcoming visitors to The Imagined Garden.

Welcome to The Imagined Garden!

Helping you grow

beautiful, fun, healthy

food.

Looking for the seed starting course?

You’re in the right place!

Close-up of young plant seedlings sprouting from coco coir, representing The Imagined Garden Seed Starting Quick Course.

The “Seed Starting Quick Course” is almost ready for you.

Hi, so glad you’re here!

I’m Christine Rae Miller, founder of The Imagined Garden, where I get to share my organic kitchen garden with you.

And, together, we’ll watch our imaginations come to life!

Stay awhile.

The founder of The Imagined Garden working in a vegetable garden with raised beds and small greenhouses in the background.

You can join me on my mini-greenhouse adventures, and create your own.

Close-up of a purple broccoli flower surrounded by green leaves, the heirloom and cold weather vegetable named Purple-Sprouting Broccoli.

We‘ll make uncommon plants common in our gardens. (Yes, that broccoli is purple.)

Close-up view of a raised garden bed with orange flowering calendula, leeks, parsley and green leafy vegetables under bright sunlight, demonstrating polyculture, or companion planting at The Imagined Garden.

We’ll explore polyculture combinations, or companion plants, that work.

And, yes, you can do this, too!

What are you imagining?

Let’s get you started today!

Close-up of young plant seedlings sprouting from coco coir, representing The Imagined Garden Seed Starting Quick Course.

The “Seed Starting Quick Course” is almost ready for you.

Imagining a beautiful, healthy world.

Imagining a beautiful, healthy You.

And, believing You can do this, too!

Heartland of the United States

Sharing with you from the Heartland of the United States

According to the most recent USDA Hardiness Zone Map, we’re in Zone 7a, which means our average annual extreme minimum temperature is between 0 and 10 degrees Fahrenheit. (Windchills have registered below zero.)

So, is the growing season from April to October?

We grow year-round, baby!

Snow-covered backyard with small greenhouses, winter gardening in USDA Zone 7a.

We also grow unique and heirloom varieties that are a foodie’s dream.

A large, yellow, bell-shaped squash flower hanging from a vine of the heirloom Zucchino Rampicante, or tromboncino.
A ripening Heirloom tomato named Alice's Dream, red with purple stripes.

And, thanks to the greenhouses, the focus is on beautiful greens.

A beautiful head of radicchio, green with touches of purple, growing in a raised garden bed as a cold weather vegetable.

Things just got even more fun, now that we can offer inspiration to you.

We share for free on our YouTube Channel.

Close-up of young plant seedlings sprouting from coco coir, representing The Imagined Garden Seed Starting Quick Course.

And, we also offer our exclusive “Seed Starting Quick Course” to help you get started and create your own magic!