I never touched a shovel or planted a plant until I was in my forties.   In addition, I never experienced the difference in taste between a freshly grown garden tomato versus a store bought tomato.   I had no idea there was a difference in the taste.   Wow, was I wrong! 

 

I am going on 30 years in the insurance industry and am currently in a leadership role for a large insurance company.   As the case with many of you that are busy people, I spent most of the past 10 years flying around the country, spending half of the year in hotel rooms and on planes.  While I built my career, I also built the amount of stress that I carried around and had to find an outlet to release the stress to maintain my overall health.   I found this release of stress in gardening.  Again, for the most part, I was a city slicker that never put my hands in the dirt, let alone planted or grew anything.  I started to teach myself, slowly, how to grow small vegetable and fruit plants like peppers and tomatoes.   The first round of plants, I attempted to grow,  I am pretty sure did not live.  Over the months, then years, I watched a lot of YouTube and learned a lot from others and put the learnings into my gardening skills.   I thought if I could learn to grow a vegetable and fruit garden, knowing nothing about it 6 years ago, then I could teach others to do the same with a small yard, balcony or even inside their apartment.     In addition, I could share with others the joy of gardening by growing your own healthy food.

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