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Learning How to Garden
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STORY: My 1 year old wants to help so much with everything. She is so hands on, which is precious, but sometimes difficult with fragile little garden seedlings. However she helps out everyday and her favorite task is to use the spout water can. It allows her to be helpful while being gentle. We have a little Master Gardener in the works!!!
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Growing out of my depression.
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STORY: In 2014 I lost my brother who was just a couple years older than me, shortly after his return from deployment in Afghanistan. From 2014-2018 I was severely depressed. I had lost my best friend and brother. During that time in 2016, my husband and I had another child together, but that pregnancy was really hard on my body and I ended up in the hospital for 3 months straight, at one point having to choose between my life and
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Spring Garden
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STORY: I grow for farmers market and got my start the moment I was married as the hubby is a real worker as I am. However market didn’t start until 30 years later. Love love love working with plants.
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Serenity
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STORY: I started really gardening when both of my parents passed away within four weeks of each other.So for 10 years now flowers and gardening is my passion!!!!
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Mini-me.
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STORY: When I fractured my ankle she took 9ver.
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Growing out of my depression.
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STORY: In 2014 I lost my brother who was just a couple years older than me, shortly after his return from deployment in Afghanistan. From 2014-2018 I was severely depressed. I had lost my best friend and brother. During that time in 2016, my husband and I had another child together, but that pregnancy was really hard on my body and I ended up in the hospital for 3 months straight, at one point having to choose between my life and
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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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How I Started Gardening &the Garden in My Roots
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STORY: Being decendants of farmers, it is no surprise my parents always had a garden. This lead to my growing up pulling weeds, picking fruit and vegetables, and watching mom do her canning. When I moved into this home where I am, I immediately needed to start gardening, you could say it was in my roots. I have several gardens here, but my favorite is my kitchen garden, right across the driveway from my kitchen. I raise all my own vegetables
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Master Gardener Volunteer Trainee
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STORY: I moved from Alberta, Canada to Georgia USA in 2002. I left behind rich black soil to be greeted with hard, nutrient-poor clay. I spent YEARS killing all manner of plants. This year I buckled down and took Master Gardener training, and I did my first soil test, and planted fruit trees (june berries, paw paws, blueberries, figs, mulberries) and put in this raised bed garden!