Lauren

Growing up with an Italian grandfather who nurtured his garden and taking countless excursions out east to pick vegetables throughout my childhood, I have always been at least vaguely familiar with the idea of gardening. Last year’s routine trip to pick out flats of flowers to decorate our front yard turned into family musings of purchasing a raised bed. Four raised beds and a menagerie of pots later, I have now become a novice gardener complete with a DVR full of P. Allen Smith episodes and a growing stack of seed catalogs. Throughout the season, from alyssum to marigolds, onions to zucchini, I have enjoyed both the serenity found spending time tilling the earth as well as the pride felt when sharing a harvest with friends and family. As a gardener, I hope to continue to grow and flourish as my garden does the same.