The Living Garden Log
This garden is still growing.
Kitchen Monk™ and Flourishing Nursing™ are living projects. We expect the evidence to grow, our language to improve, and nurses, patients, families, and communities to teach us things we don’t yet know. This log shows what has meaningfully changed, not every small edit.
🟢🟡🔴 Red Light, Green Light: how to read our status lights
Red Light, Green Light is Kitchen Monk’s favorite childhood game, so it’s how we show what’s ready. Every light always comes with words, so you never have to rely on color alone.
🟢 GO · Available now. You can use it today.
🟡 GETTING READY · In development. Being built. Not ready to use yet.
🔴 NOT YET · Future vision or not offered. An idea for later, or something we don’t provide (like clinical care).
📓 What’s grown: September 2026
🐕 New: Flourishing With Animals (both sites). How pets support connection, movement, calm, and joy, plus kitchen foods to keep away from pets. Inspired by Flourishing Guardian Chef Robin Jeep. Read → · For nurses ↗
🥜 New: Kitchen Monk Staples. Our own easy homemade basics: two-ingredient nut and banana milks, whole-food dressings, date-sweetened ketchup, soft serve, and a fiber label tip. Cook →
🧭 Navigation redesigned (both sites). New, simpler menus built around what visitors need: Kitchen Monk around the Nine Gardens; Flourishing Nursing around the framework, nurse well-being, and evidence.
🏡 Homepages simplified (both sites). Each now opens with one clear message and three main choices, followed by five sections, including a diagram of how Kitchen Monk, Flourishing Nursing, and The EVERgreen Chronicles fit together.
🍲 New: Kitchen Monk Food Tools. Six free tools for real life: the Seven-Minute Rescue Meal™, Bean Principle™, Flourishing Plate™, Garden Pot™, Garden Table™, and Rainbow Garden™. See them →
🩺 New for nurses: Food Tools for Flourishing Conversations. How to use the food tools within scope and alongside registered dietitians. Read ↗
🌱 New: What We Are Still Learning. An honest list of the open questions behind Flourishing Nursing, including that our own frameworks are not yet validated. Read ↗
🟢🟡🔴 New: Red Light, Green Light. Dr. Michael Greger’s free NutritionFacts.org resources in one place, with a live, auto-updating feed. Explore →
✏️ Framework revised: Nursing Ninja Heart Lift. Now described as a pathway where each nurse signs up directly with The Lift Project and Full Plate Living. Independent programs, no partnership. See it ↗
🔒 Privacy improvement. A personal email address was removed from public pages. Contact now goes to community@kitchenmonk.org, with a clear reminder not to send confidential medical information. How to contact us →
🛠 What we’re building next
🟡 GETTING READY · The Living Flourishing Plan™: a private personal plan you can revisit whenever life changes. No health records, no scores.
🟡 GETTING READY · My Living Flourishing Nursing Plan™: a private reflection tool for nurses that names system factors, not just personal ones.
🟡 GETTING READY · Clearer “What Is Kitchen Monk?” and “What Is Flourishing Nursing?” pages, each with a “what it is not” section.
🟡 GETTING READY · The Flourishing Nursing Learning Hub, with recommended outside learning pathways.
🟡 GETTING READY · Move With a Nurse™ community activities.
🔴 NOT YET · Any clinical care. Kitchen Monk and Flourishing Nursing offer education and community only today.
Help the garden grow
Spotted an error? Have evidence, a story, or a question? Tell us. Corrections are logged here.
We log substantive changes (new pages, revised definitions, corrections, accessibility and privacy improvements), not every small wording edit. Please do not send confidential medical information by email. Drafted with AI assistance and reviewed by Kitchen Monk; last updated September 26, 2026.
