I have always loved gardening. My grandparents and my parents were all gardeners. I grew up planting and picking vegetables along side my dad and flowers with my mom. My dad always planted enough to feed an army even though there were only the three of us. What we didn’t eat or can was given to friends, coworkers and fellow church members.
After college I moved into an apartment in Kansas City with my college roommate. She was a farm girl and I was a country girl and we were living in an apartment with a three by five balcony for outdoor space. We had plants all over the balcony and in the apartment, but we missed having a garden. A few years later I bought my first house in St. Louis and that’s when the gardening bug really started to flourish. I built raised beds for my vegetables and planted many, many perennials. The more I gardened the more I wanted to know, so in 2016 I became a Certified Master Gardener through the Missouri Botanical Garden In St. Louis. Since that time I have continued to share my love of gardening by volunteering on various community garden projects and speaking to anybody and everybody who is willing to listen.