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Monkey’s Garden
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STORY: I started gardening when I bought my house. I have always loved plants but didn’t have the space for a garden, so I only had interior plants. Finally I was able start my dream garden. Every season I learn new techniques and tricks. The feeling of eating your own grown vegetables is so satisfying, and delicious !!
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Our first little garden
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STORY: I've always helped my mother garden as a child but now that I'm older and have my own child, I wanted to have our own garden! It's a great way for my daughter and I to spend time together and she's also learning tons! We're starting off small, tomatoes, bell peppers, corn and sunflowers!
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Growing a life
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STORY: I have been gardening since I was big enough to pick up a shovel and hoe. Growing up we depended on the garden to supply most of our food, we would spend the summer harvesting and canning into late fall. I think thats when I fell in love with the whole process of gardening. Its more than just planting seeds it harvesting the bounty of your hard work, just like raising a family, you plant the seeds watch them grow
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Gardens make us smile
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STORY: I love having dirt on my hands and so does my little one...makes our connection even stronger!
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Healthier for my family
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STORY: I became diagnosed with a thyroid disorder back in 1999. Ever since I have become more aware about what I eat and what I feed my family. So after my sons were born I decided to become and organic gardener and learn how to grow and preserve what I grow. It has been a trial and error process for sure, but my sons get excited now to harvest and eat what I grow.
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Blame it all on my roots...
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STORY: I've been gardening a very long time, I guess you could say it runs in my blood. My mother is a gardener as well just like her mother before her. Speaking of her mother, I was extremely close to my grandmother growing up. She lived out in the country and was one of those little old ladies with long gray hair, funky windchimes hanging from her porch along with hummingbird feeders, free range chickens, many beautiful species of flowers and
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My gardening experience
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STORY: I come from a family of gardeners. When I was about 6 years old my grandmother showed me how to gather seeds and start my own garden. I have been gardening ever since. I am now 73 years old and still garden. I also work in the garden department of my department store and have done so in other stores for 30 years. I have taught many people how to garden. I love it!
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Our Tiny Paradise
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STORY: Back on Jan. 6th 2016 we had a house fire and lost everything. My husband, our son, our two dogs and myself, ended up in an RV, we found a small lot in an RV park and that is where we are. Very tiny lot, not the best of an area and so decided to make it a small paradise for our family. Now we are growing veggies, berries, beans, bok choy, herbs, potatoes, garlic, flowers, trees and more. I
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My Flute Lilies
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STORY: I've always loved to grow my own fruits and veggies as a kid and couldn't resist showing off the newest edition to my garden. I really enjoyed watching them grow.