The start of the green thumbs

Is it just me...

or does it drive you crazy to spend $5 on a tiny cup of basil/cilantro/rosemary… just to use half of it and then toss the rest a few days later?

Because SAME.

We love cilantro in this house, and I finally hit my breaking point buying it over and over again when I knew there had to be a better way. That’s when it clicked—why not just grow it ourselves?

So that’s exactly what we did.

I brought a pallet home from work and Byrdie and I went to town on turning it into a herb garden! So much fun…except for the hand sawing part!

Enter: The Pallet Project

I brought a pallet home from work (because apparently that’s what we do now 😅), and Byrdie and I decided we were officially “garden girls.”

We had zero plan… zero experience… and a whole lot of confidence.

And honestly? That’s half the magic.

There’s something about holding a saw that makes you feel way more capable than you probably are.

Was it efficient? No.
Was it smooth? Also no.
Did we question our life choices halfway through hand sawing wood? Absolutely.

But we laughed the entire time—and that’s kind of the point.

Plant Shopping = Our Favorite Part 🌿

Once we had something that kind of resembled a planter, it was time for the fun part—filling it.

Our go-to spot is The Farm Patch. If you’re local, you already know… it’s one of those places you run in for “just a couple plants” (@thefarmpatch) and somehow leave with a full cart and zero regrets.

That’s where we grabbed our herbs and got way too excited about all the possibilities.

What We Actually Made…

We turned that random pallet into a vertical herb garden—nothing fancy, nothing perfect, but ours.

We filled it with:

Cilantro (obviously 🌿)
Basil
A little rosemary
…and probably a few things we weren’t fully prepared to keep alive yet 😅

What I Didn’t Expect…

I thought we were just solving a grocery problem.

What I didn’t expect was:

How much Byrdie would love it
How proud we’d feel looking at something we built together
How this tiny project would turn into… well… a whole garden obsession

Because spoiler alert: this was just the beginning.

If You’re Thinking About Starting…

Do it.

Don’t overthink it. Don’t wait until you “know what you’re doing.” Just grab something simple (even a pallet 😉) and start.

You might end up with crooked boards and dirt everywhere…

…but you’ll also end up with something way better than store-bought cilantro.