My love for gardening came at a very young age. I would go out in the yard with my great-grandmother, who loved to garden. She grew the most beautiful vegetables in our city backyard and flowers in the front. She was a southern woman, born and raised in Georgia, who brought her country style to the city of Louisville, Kentucky. Over the years, she would educated me about the things in life that was most important, from God to family as well as a few friends. I was fortunate to have her and her wisdom until I was 20 years old.
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From that seed that she sowed in me, it grew my passion and love for gardening. My very first garden was flowers. The following year I incorporated a small vegetable garden putting in the practices that she had instilled in me, no chemicals; just God, land, seed, and me.  You should always be able to eat your fruit right off the vine, she would say, and you can only do that if you don't put all those sprays on there! Food should taste like food, not chemicals or that mess from the grocery stores these days,  I would hear her say. 

 

That is how I garden to this date, 15 years later. No chemicals, just good old fashioned, organic, love, & patient gardening. Now my city backyard garden is bigger, I have also incorporated a community garden plot over the last 4 years to insure enough land to grow my organic vegetables for my family, community, and now you! So, now you know my story as well as how I came up with my name. Thanks to my great-grandmother, that is why I can say "I'm just a City Girl With Country Roots!"

 

**I am not a USDA certified organic grower. My practice of growing is organic. Meaning, I do use manures, omri certified fertilizers, etc. No synthetics fertilizers or growing means." **

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