Part II
This website is all about my experiences with gardening. It was amazing how much I learned by actually doing it. I am now in my second year of gardening and I am very excited. My first year was a success. My family got fed with organically home grown vegetables. My children enjoy picking out vegetables from the garden and eating them. That I think is my ultimate reward. It was a lot of work to start off, I mean building raised beds, shoveling and digging, moving dirt and mulch here and there, but it was all worth it.
The first year, I had abundance of produce that I was able to put some away in the freezer and also gave some to neighbor and friends. I learned how to do canning, thanks to sisters from the Relief Society organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints who helped me learn how to do canning and also educated me on gardening. A special thanks to Terri Hanna who shared with me her wealth of knowledge of gardening, and shared with me her seed collections.
I am looking forward to this year. I have many goals as far as trying new plants and new recipes, so keep checking on my blog. Share with me your experience and together we can learn and grow, and enjoy the blessings of Gardening.
Part I
My name is Donna Brown. I have done a lot of geographical moves in my life, big ones and little ones. My most recent move was from Vancouver, British Columbia to Louisburg, North Carolina. I followed my husband here where he got a job as a mechanical engineer for Cummins. I was used to the busy life that a big city imposed and that entailed raising a family, while working full time, and going to school at the same time. Now that I have moved out here in the country, I always wondered whether I will enjoy living here and get accustom to laid back way of life.
This website is all about my experiences with gardening. It was amazing how much I learned by actually doing it. I am now in my second year of gardening and I am very excited. My first year was a success. My family got fed with organically home grown vegetables. My children enjoy picking out vegetables from the garden and eating them. That I think is my ultimate reward. It was a lot of work to start off, I mean building raised beds, shoveling and digging, moving dirt and mulch here and there, but it was all worth it.
The first year, I had abundance of produce that I was able to put some away in the freezer and also gave some to neighbor and friends. I learned how to do canning, thanks to sisters from the Relief Society organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints who helped me learn how to do canning and also educated me on gardening. A special thanks to Terri Hanna who shared with me her wealth of knowledge of gardening, and shared with me her seed collections.
I am looking forward to this year. I have many goals as far as trying new plants and new recipes, so keep checking on my blog. Share with me your experience and together we can learn and grow, and enjoy the blessings of Gardening.
Part I
My name is Donna Brown. I have done a lot of geographical moves in my life, big ones and little ones. My most recent move was from Vancouver, British Columbia to Louisburg, North Carolina. I followed my husband here where he got a job as a mechanical engineer for Cummins. I was used to the busy life that a big city imposed and that entailed raising a family, while working full time, and going to school at the same time. Now that I have moved out here in the country, I always wondered whether I will enjoy living here and get accustom to laid back way of life. 
My husband and I bought a house in Lake Royale with a half acre front and backyard. It’s not much of a yard compared to others, but it is more than we can ever afford to have if we were still living in Vancouver. We were so excited about landscaping and gardening. We both like to garden, but we had never been blessed to own a larger yard until now. My husband, Scott, gave me, as my arrival present, a strawberry patch in a wooden garden bed that he made. The very first week I arrived with our son Elias (3.5 years) and Audrey (4 months), we got busy planning the lay out of our garden beds, the size, and what plants to sow. We were very excited and have talked much about someday soon enjoying a cuisine made fresh from our vegetable garden. As I was doing my research on various topics relating to gardening, some online information was useful and some were not. I found that a lot of the information came from simple gardeners like me. Then came the idea of sharing my own gardening experience online. After all, true gardeners share their garden.
I hope you enjoy this site.
