We were lucky to catch up with Nick Ewing recently and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Nick , thanks for joining us today. If you’re open to it, can you talk to us about the best (or worst) investment you’ve made. What’s the backstory and the relevant context behind why you made the investment

Im sure I have more investment opportunities coming in the future, but for sure the worst investment I had made so far was not investing in myself and my career when I had the chance to do so financially. I could have and didn’t because I was worried about an ROI, and trying to X my investment, and make as much money as I could in a short term. And real wealth does not happen that way. Wealth is the health of your garden in your life and your mind. I realized arts and organics was the real and best investment. Something that I should have cultivated more, instead of investing in businesses I am not a part of or understand how they work.

Learning to water my seeds, cultivate my eventual seasonal harvests, and to share that with my community and let it pollinate my creating of music and art was what I needed to grow with instead of things outside of my grasp and capability to impact. My team and I have been doing that over the last 5 years, honing our craft. We’ve seen success in utilizing sustainable tactics and strategies to positively impact, our immediate surroundings and showcase peace through developing our community while focusing on arts and organics.

All in all, I learned to invest in my self and my family, friends, and folks around me above traditional investments.

Nick , love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

Having performed music for almost twenty years, I’ve had experience all across the sector of arts and entertainment, from performing and composing to operations and managing teams and productions. I have found that I thrive in helping make sure that there’s a perfect vibe happening with limited interruptions to the experience and moment. I love being able to make sound and to fill a place with feelings and love through music. Starting on viola and now wielding a 5 string violin, I’ve had the honor and privilege of playing in different countries and genres.

As well as becoming a beekeeper in 2020, pollinating myself with different fruit and art is essential to my health and balance. I believe that the best honey is that that comes from near your surroundings habitat and ecosystem. The importance of taking care of these creatures is in turn taking care of ourselves. We are directly related to nature and it is in our best nature to preserve it for generations to come. I”deas are human honey” – Meliferas, which is why I feel so strongly about my art and it’s the power to make people experience feeling and “evolve our collective grandeur”.

By blending arts and organics, my team and I have been able to guide our clients, non profit partners, educational institutions and organizations to find sustainable, regenerative, permacultural and agricultural practices that best suit their desire to become more ecologically conscious and work with their existing community to find the best natural resources to grow with their business. Our work is to advocate on behalf of the local growers, creators, and producers inside our immediate ecosystem. We aim to curate and create immersive experiences to educate folks on the importance of art and ethical developments.
Through the influential power of art, nature and community, we can show how calculated actions, intentional design and materials, and the right team brings new hope into our world.

We do this for love. We do this for art. We do this for life. We do this for us. We do this for you.

We’d love to hear the story of how you turned a side-hustle into a something much bigger.

In 2020, We brought on 20 beehives to our ArtisTREE Gardens site and began the process of learning about the caretaking and maintaining of a successful and healthy apiary. What I figured would be just something I would learn into my retirement became something that is sort of a light and icon for our brand. The hive. The honey. The bees. The garden. The music. We began to tie all of it together through clever marketing and aligning with partners that support that vision. What started out as giving people honey as gifts became a commercial endeavor that is continuing to grow and pollinate ourselves and our community.
Taking the time to learn and practice the necessary strategies for doing this created alot of power in my mind to look at things in life from the perspective of nature. That helped me learn how to better handle the road bumps that we find on our journey.

Any thoughts, advice, or strategies you can share for fostering brand loyalty?

We keep continuing to connect with our existing partnerships via phone, in person meetings, our social media channels and website. Showcasing our goals and recent achievements, even the low points, we feel help communicate our brand and ethos. Sharing how certain news and topics relates to our industry and aligning with causes our clients hold dear like food sovereignty and arts education. We continue to advocate our clients and partners and feel that advocacy translates to the trust we have in our ecosystem and ourselves.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.artistreegardens.com
• Instagram: @artistreegardens / @bignickewing
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-ewing-92824784?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=android_app

Image Credits
Yvonne Gougelet Stefan Scheuermann Sam E Hues Katie Talbert