My Present
Happy New Year! It is January, 2010 and we have entered a new decade. Hopefully it is one which will see the growth of green goodness in all walks of life. The year will see me with many irons in the fire; Wife, Mom, Herbalist, Homeschool Teacher, Full-Time College Student, Johnson County Master Gardener, and occasional Renaissance Faire performer. I am busy but variety is the spice of life and I truly enjoy mine.
My daily life focuses on homeschooling the four children and the tasks of day-to-day living. We dedicate the winter to sewing and craft projects that I don’t have time to work on during the gardening months. We have a new homeschooling project in the works, but there will be more on that later.
I am busily planning my gardening efforts for the spring. It won’t be much longer until I start my seedlings. I completed the required volunteer hours to become a full-fledged Johnson County Master Gardener, over the summer and fall of 2009. This year, I plan to continue volunteering for the hortline. I believe I will be starting back again in February. I really enjoy working in that capacity although I certainly could use some more training in the area of plant disease identification. I am also looking forward to having more opportunities to give the Edible Gardening Presentation, I developed. Feel free to contact me at stephany@naturallysimple.org if you would be interested in having me speak at your event. I am thinking of doing an internet version of the presentation for people to watch on their own time and then e-mail me with questions.
I am back-to-school this semester and taking classes to finish off my AA, as well as inch me a bit closer to my goal of becoming an AHG certified herbalist. The nice thing about my plant biology class is that it fulfills a requirement for the AHG and meets my continuing education requirements for the MG program. If all goes as plans, we will be doing a bit more traveling over the summer in order for me to attend a few herb seminars and conferences.
