Thank You for helping us celebrate our 20 Year Anniversary!

Look for our event dates which will be posted on the website by January 31, 2026.

May the beautiful seasons of fall and winter fill you with many blessings and grace.

Sacred Box Elder Tree

Sacred box elder tree, you are old and gnarled. Severely pruned last year of dead limbs you are misshapen in your form, no longer a symmetrical beauty, yet, you have a presence with your massive lengthy trunk and thick limbs stretching upward and outward with pruned blunt ends. You still have a solid, graceful, strength with your branches spread wide and open as if to praise the heavens for your existence and to welcome whoever decides to nestle into the soft woven tree swings hanging from your strong branches.

Sacred box elder

Still teaching me about life

Welcoming me home.

~ Deborah Marqui

New eBook

Healing Gardens: Where the Soul Is Tended   is a short eBook that was recently published.
It is available through Amazon for $2.99 and can be streamed through any preferred device.

To My Readers: 

Upon reading Healing Gardens: Where the Soul is Tended you will discover the motivation and my compelling commitment to share the experience of Healing Gardens with others.

But what was the reason behind the creation of Healing Gardens at Stone Hill Farm?

I invite you to read the whole story from the beginning in my newly published memoir, 
From the Fire Into the Garden: A Healing Journey.

The Memoir

“In this profoundly intimate and soul-baring memoir, Deborah Marqui reveals how her tenacious journey through cancer transcended her physical healing.  At its heart, From the Fire into the Garden: A Healing Journey reaffirms in compelling fashion the power of faith, family, friends, self-compassion & surrender to the grace of God and the healing power of Nature in the face of suffering…  By the time you finish soaking up her story, you will have a sense that Deb has invited you to sit with her as she takes in the beauty of her Healing Gardens.” - Jim Otepka, LMFT, Psychotherapist, Former Director of Tri City Family Services

Deborah writes in her memoir: “I came across the body of a chickadee on our deck that looked dead; yet, as I reached down to move the little bird there was a tiny heartbeat. I waited and watched as it regained consciousness and flew away... Humans, like myself, need to be stunned sometimes to wake up to the beauty and gift that surrounds them."