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I’m so excited it’s Saturday, March 17th, 2018 when I’m recording and I have the most awesome guest Vicki Henderson on the line because she’s a master gardener, garden blogger at http://vickisgardentips.com/ (Vicki’s Garden Tips) and Vimeo channel https://vimeo.com/gardenbuzz (GardenBuzz) listener and in the https://www.facebook.com/groups/OrganicGardenerPodcast/ (Facebook Group) and I know she has so much to share today! Tell us a little about yourself. I actually grew up in Minnesota. I grew up on a farm, my dad was a dairy farmer. I got back into gardening later in life when I had kids. We have a property in Boise, we have about an acre.  We have a Vegetable garden 2 rabbits that I love use their manure for fertilization of the garden. A big composter! I love composting! I have kept worms, this past year I stopped having my worms but I’m gonna start vermicomposting again because I like their compost as well I’m a big vegetable gardener, worked as a personal gardener for homes in Boise Idaho perennials. I love this maybe you’ll have some advice for people that might want to start a business like that, I have always thought that would be a good job for mike, he got a little job doing that last year, but it was kind of far away. The bonus was I got onions out of the deal and this year mike grew onions for me. Tell me about your first gardening experience? my parents did! we had a big vegetable garden! We spent a lot of time weeding the garden. We sold cucumbers on the market for pickles get up in the morning and pick cucumbers sold apples on the side of the highway and sweet corn is a big thing in Minnesota! corn corn corn! potatoes I remember that’s what we did, mainly our income on the farm was dairy, but to keep us kids busy we sold vegetables on the side of the road. It’s interesting you know the big rigs blowing past you! We had a small little table set off the highway by my house. People would stop and they would say let them taste an apple. We were small children, we didn’t know any better! We let have them, and they would take it and go We had a big family 6 kids big sister brother’s stayed home little things sell the vegetables fun experience grandmother had flowers learned to love flower gardening was really fun Boise gardening was so much different high desert raining today not a lot of water a lot of heat things grow different here You have to do some research if you move out here from other part of the country, it’s different.  Do you want to talk about where is a successful place to do research because a lot of people have been asking me about moving to a new place.  well I when I moved to Idaho more then 20 years ago I moved here became a volunteer at the http://idahobotanicalgarden.org/ (botanical garden) and I learned a  lot there, and I joined the master gardener program. very active took classes every week do volunteer work learned an immense about what grows well why it does http://www.extension.uidaho.edu/mg/ ( master gardener program) http://www.extension.uidaho.edu/mg/ () http://www.extension.uidaho.edu/mg/ (county extension) through thehttp://www.extension.uidaho.edu/mg/ ( University of Idaho) continued in that for maybe 4-5 years events http://www.extension.uidaho.edu/mg/ (master gardener) volunteering for different things there’s just so much to learn When I started when I started going personal gardening more education on the real side If you really want to learn how to garden you just got to go do it fail succeed Several people, well https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/replay-of-episode-86-school-garden-and-agriculture-educator/ (Patti Armbrister) in particular has asked several times, for Mike to create an online organic master gardener program. In Lincoln County where I live the extension program got... Support this podcast