Renae Bowman

It’s tomato growing season, and like so many gardeners, I’ve started the process from scratch. Watching these seedlings grow, I couldn’t help but see the connection to us! If you'd permit me...3-steps to a stronger you: Choices— It’s all about choices for so much in life, isn’t it? Same in gardening. The seeds I start with…matter. If they aren’t good. If they aren’t hearty. If they aren’t for my climate, my area, my conditions, then they won’t grow. They would be useless for

Gardening is symbiotic; the notion of growing anything, is generally relied upon something. Soil needs water. Roots need nutrients. Plants need light. Etc. Etc. But in that space, of relying on something else, also comes companionship. Companion gardening is a thing. Some vegetables can be grown side-by-side with other vegetables, as long as they're compatible; one can guard from pests, one can provide nutrients, one can give shade, one can support—companionship, within the