A short story in the education of a gardener.Worked in local farming since age 12 BS in Hort, Penna. Rodale enthusiast, Fukuoka friend, WWOOFer, x country on bike, working on farms, arrived at the Good Shepherd Center 1980, volunteered and employee there 27 years as gardener, learning and teaching urban permaculture-holistic-urban-agriculture, Living in/stewarding Ballard 8 years, clothed the village with thousands of plants from my backyard-sharing plants from ’87-’95, started “GardenOpen” tradition-2x/year> 10000 visitors in that gardens life; moved out 2007 to Snohomish to start a farm-Skipley farm, on Skipley Road, bordered by 10 properties- it’s sub-urban. Now growing 2000 apple trees, 170 varieties, 200 seedless grape vines-15 varieties, 1500 blueberries-15 varieties, every berry you can grow, w/a few favorites. Nursery, CSA, Farm Markets, Landscape Design- how I pay for my passion of growing plants.
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