Hi! My name is April and I want to help YOU learn to garden.
I am not a horticulturist or a trained botanist or anything technical. I try not to be a know-it-all, my-way-or-the- highway type of person.
I am a mother and grandmother that has spent the last 25 years learning by trial and error how to make things grow.
I was not born with a green thumb. NO ONE is. It is a valuable SKILL that I learned and I am going to help YOU learn it too.
I will include stuff you will think is woo-woo, and sometimes I cuss. I don't want anyone to be surprised when it happens, cuz it will happen.
I am more hillbilly than hip. Part of the time I am a mad scientist, just trying something new for the hell of it. Part of the time I am a culinary adventurer eating purple beans and white tomatoes.
But mostly I am a flower FREAK! You can read more about how I got started gardening here.
Sometimes I slip into hillbillyese. Terms that I use pretty frequently are doohicky, thingamajig and whatchyamacallit.
These are some of the things that I believe:
I BELIEVE that I have control over the weather, the plants and the creatures that want to eat my plants...but that is bullshit. There is no control. I can only hope to work within the rhythm of nature and learn from the natural processes already in place.
I BELIEVE that everything I eat, touch or look at came from this blue ball I live on. I shouldn't be a pig and take more than I give back.
I BELIEVE being in nature satisfies your soul like nothing else. We have lost a lot of our culture's knowledge of the natural world. We are disconnected and that leads to massively unsettled and unhappy people.
I BELIEVE every person has the responsibility to themselves and their family to know how to grow food. You may not actively pursue it 100% all of the time, but you should cultivate it as a skill.
Do you BELIEVE you can garden? I do!
I hope you come along for the ride. We will be bouncing down dirt roads in Missouri in my dually. Hang on!
Got a question you would like answered? Send me an email so we can chat!