From Corporate America to Garden Consultant
30 Apr 2024 · 34 min
Podcast episode (recorded April 30, 2024) of "Grow Your Self" in which host Nicole Johnsey Burke interviews Latasha Harrell about her transition from a corporate oil-and-gas career to running a Houston-based garden consultancy called A New Harvest. The conversation covers Latasha’s personal gardening origin (began gardening after being laid off and learning via nurseries and trial-and-error), her business focus (garden maintenance and revival), seasonal planting and crop timing in Houston, practical how-to tips for tomatoes (planting depth, pruning suckers, trellising, fertilizing, harvest windows), and her mission to make gardening accessible to diverse people and spaces.
Questions this episode answers
Latasha Harrell; Houston, Texas; business: A New Harvest (anewharvest on Instagram/Facebook).
2016.
First green/flower buds around 30 days; red/suitable-for-salad tomatoes around day 50–60.
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Foreign. Welcome back to the Grow youw Self podcast. Today we get to chat with one of my favorite gardeners. She and I have spent a lot of time in the same gardens. She is phenomenal with all things green. So tell us your name, where you're from, the name of your business, and what you you do.
My name is Latasha Harrell from Houston, Texas, and the name of my business is a new harvest.
And what do you do, girl?
I have specialized in maintenance, working with a lot of clients who have existing gardens or got a big installation in, you know, a year or two down the line, they're like, okay, I don't know what to do. So I have found joy in going back, reviving those gardens and giving them the confidence all over again from when they initially had it.
Yeah.
And took that leap. And then somewhere along the line, they just kind of fell off the train. You know, I'm here to guide them back on and say, I'm here to help you get things back on track as well as continue to walk with you so it doesn't happen again.
I think that is such a huge service because, let's be honest, we all fall off the train in the garden because it's so dynamic. Right. It's like changing all the time, so.
And sometimes we can bite off more than we can chew. What?
No. Me doing, too. I know, right? Impossible. And then you just step in and you're like, hey, I got you. Right. I love this. So have you always been a gardener? Did you grow up in the garden?
No, not at all.
So how did this start? Bring us back to the very first plant. When did that happen?
The very first plant started with. So a little backstory. I come from a background of oil and gas, corporate oil and gas. And it was just kind of, you know, it paid the bills, but it was extremely stressful.
Yeah.
And I didn't just have. I didn't have the downtime. So my goal after being laid off was, I want to learn. I'm going to go to an ashram in India. I'm going to go.
Going to where?
An ashram, like a living place in India to learn how to do breathing techniques, yoga, and just really learn how to mellow. Because I was so corporate all the time.
I mean, you were like, I'm not just going to, like, sit on my couch and watch Netflix. I'm going to India.
Yes. India or Costa Rica. So I ended up getting my yoga certification.
Did you go to those places?
I did not. It was the same year my daughter was graduating high school.
So just a few things to do, you know, to keep you in America.
Yes.
But you did get yoga certified.
I did get yoga certified.
Wow.
And at the location in Houston, she just kind of had a walk path that had, you know, where she threw seeds out. She just broadcast past seeds everywhere. So it's like a walk through sanctuary.
Wow.
And to have the herbs, like, you know, you walk down the path and you described a lot about how you went to Big Ben.
Yeah.
And everything was growing just like right next to each other. It didn't have the whole, you know, mastermind behind it. It's just, you know, nature created it. And so I love that. And I made my biggest first mistake. Well, my biggest learning point was I'm in Lowe's all the time. I'm in Home Depot all the time. So I started to buy herbs and plants that were not in season, of course.
Because they're selling it.
Right.
Because they can. And we buy it. Yep.
It's right there, front and center when you walk in.
Uh huh. Might as well just throw it in the trash can on our way out of the store.
So that was my first experience with. I love what, what's happening here. I love the ability to heal myself through herbs and, you know, food that we can so very easily grow in our climate. So I started buying in some raised beds that I got from online.
Yeah.
And I just, you know, let me just try a couple of things here. And I started buying tons of herbs and plants and not bottom depot, not. Well, not from initially. That's where I got them.
Yeah.
And then I noticed that I didn't have very much success. And then that's when I found nurseries that I'd never gone to during my corporate days.
Of course not, because you're too busy.
Right.
Wow. So you got laid off.
I did.
And you were oil and gas. Stop that. And then you're doing like downward dog.
Yes.
Looking around and you're seeing herbs and flowers and all the wildness and you're like, I'm going to go for it.
That's it.
Okay. So then you start, you get these beds online. Couple fails, you're not giving up, and you just keep going. Go find some more plants at the local nursery and you start to have success.
That is correct.
What year was that?
That was 2016.
Oh, wow. So just like seven years ago. Yes. Okay. So your daughter's graduating and you're growing in your garden. So somehow, someway, you then got interested in garden consulting. So when did that happen?
That happened when I wanted to clean up what I was doing.
Okay.
I knew that my. I got really big in companion planting, and I found out that this is not growing well because it's in here. Or. What I did was I got. I had, like, a lot of four by. I'm sorry, two by three beds. And so I would just stick all of my kale in one bed, all of my lettuces in one bed. And I didn't think to, you know, separate them or add in the herbs that would repel the. You know, so when I lose a crop, I'd have one bug come in and wipe out the entire crop. My entire kale is gone. Like, all of it.
It's a buffet for the bugs. Yes, yes.
So I wanted to clean it up a bit and learn the gardenary process on how to properly, you know, grow plants next to each other that will work coherently, you know, work with each other to keep the pests down. And then from there, I was like, okay, so I know this. I know gardens. And now I've learned how to properly plant. Now I would absolutely love to teach this to others so they're not making a lot of the same mistakes that I made.
Love it. And so you mastered it, and then you're ready to help other people master it, too.
That is correct. Bypass a lot of the mistakes that I made.
So neat. So were you teaching yoga at this point?
I never taught yoga.
Okay, so you just became a really good yogi. Is that what it's called, Yogi?
Yes.
Yes.
And then before I completed my yoga certification, I was already gardening.
Yeah.
My heart just, like, gravitated towards that. I was there doing the yoga.
But your heart was in the garden.
I was like, you know, in order to. It kind of became a. In order to get into some of these positions, I know I need to be healthier. And so it just opened up my mind to the like, okay, before I can really do that, before I can really teach that, there's another component here that I've discovered. I really need to focus in on what I'm eating, how I have energy to pull off some of these things, and how my body's changing along the way. So because of that, I started diving more into my health versus the. The. The stretches and the positions that I could try to manipulate myself into. I knew that my health and my wellness internally and what I was taking in was far more important than being able to do, you know, shape shift my body into a pretzel.
Although that would be a Sight. So if you ever want to take a photo of yourself shape shifting in the garden, I would love to see it. And you know what's so cool? I'm listening to your story and I'm thinking this woman thought she had to go across the world to find peace.
I did.
Yeah.
I thought I needed to completely. I was over the traffic, I was over the noise, I was over the hustle and bustle. And I just really wanted a different scenery altogether. I. I went into that corporate at a very early age to raise my daughter. And the money was there, but there was a huge trade off. There was no peace. And I thought I needed to put on like, you know, an all white suit, walked around like a monk and, you know, or beige or tan suit and just walk around and just totally live in a silent place where no one hardly talked. And I thought that's what I would. What I needed. And it wasn't.
And you found it in your backyard.
I found it in my backyard.
That's pretty cool. Thank you. So what does it feel like? What's a moment in your garden? Can you remember a moment in your garden that you were like, this is it, Like, I feel good right here?
I would say it's been since having my son.
Yeah.
And he has some food aversions, some things that he just really doesn't like. And to see him so excited about what I'm doing means a lot to me because of the things that he's not. I've not been able to get him to eat from the grocery store. So to see his excitement in my garden, our garden, you know, and his love for that, it just makes everything worthwhile because I created my business to allow myself the freedom to raise him differently than what I did, than what my daughter saw coming up. While I was in corporate, I vowed to make a complete change. So him in the garden, us, you know, dancing and having fun, and he's seeing something that he planted by seed is now sprouting. While it may be still a struggle to get him to eat it, his excitement and seeing what he created has been all. It's been beautiful. And I often wonder how many of my clients feel that excitement. From seeing what was untapped potential in their yard to now it's back thriving, it's growing and it's bigger than ever because now they're a huge part of reviving it.
I love it and he loves it. I got to walk through your garden with you less than a week ago. And he was so proud. He's so proud of it. He calls it his garden.
Yes.
That's such a gift you've given him. That's amazing. Okay, so you are the Houston gardener. So bring us through a year of gardening in Houston. Let's start with January, February, what's going on in the garden?
January, February. We are. That's the season where we're preparing for spring. A lot of the winter items are starting to kind of phase out as the temperatures warm up mid to late February, and we're preparing for the spring.
So what are the winter crops like, what was in there?
Winter crops are. We're seeing the last of the broccoli that you may have harvested once or twice, and now it has side shoots. We're seeing a lot of the salad start to taste a little bit different in the garden because the temperatures are starting to get a little bit warmer and it's not cold. We're seeing the last little bit of spinach and a lot of our brassicas that are now on the tail end of their lifespan, they're really starting to. The taste is starting to change because the temperatures again, they've just gone through extremely cold and now it's starting to warm up. And so this is.
I bet people who are listening to this who don't live in Houston, they're like, what? Like your, your cool season. Things are finishing up in February. Like, we can't even go outside side in February without wearing like four layers of clothing.
In February. It is still a little chilly. And like I said, that's when we start making plans for. Okay, let's start to finish these things off and let's start.
You've got a garden full in January, February of like all these things. You're talking about the greens, the broccoli. Yeah. Really?
Yes.
Wow.
Yes. We make it through a night or two of frost and these things really, you know, they're still at their peak during this time. Yeah. But I am preparing everyone that, you know, let's finish off what we have.
Wow. So you're just like salad for breakfast, lunch and dinner, spinach in the morning, spinach in the afternoon, spinach at night.
That is it. You get spinach like a six month. It's a six month window.
And you get what you get and you don't throw a fit. Right. That's what you tell yourself.
And we move on.
We are having broccoli right now because it will be gone soon. Okay, so that's January, February, and then how soon are you going to plant things for the spring? You said like, this is coming really fast where it's going to warm up in April. Oh, really?
Okay. In April, we start to do the March. April, we start to do the switch over for the spring items. So it's usually towards the end of March. March, I would say, I start to pull things out that are no longer. Maybe you've harvested your cauliflower, and I've showed you how to use the leaves, and then it's time to, you know, pull that out, because it's not going to give you another cauliflower again. So March, beginning of April, we start to see, you know, a little bit. You know, the carrots have. Now have carrot greens and learning how to use those things before the actual.
The final product. Yeah. Making the most of what you got. I totally get that. All right, so, Houston, my memory is like, we had tomatoes in the garden March, April. We might be having bright red tomatoes in May, sometimes as early as late April.
Right.
Is that crazy or what?
I love it.
Most people haven't even put a tomato in the ground yet, and you're already harvesting.
Yes. I had clients, actually, this year. I snuck a tomato in, like, right before the frost date, and they're like, this is not the time you're supposed. You know, it was a time where you would typically buy a tomato plant and baby it until the weather, the. The threat of frost has passed. But I.
You took a chance.
I took a chance, and I was like, I really want tomatoes, and I want them as soon as possible.
And what happened?
So I babied it, and I put it in the beginning of February. I didn't wait to mid February. And I had tomatoes when a lot of people. Like, I already had tomatoes when a lot of people were just starting their spring gardens.
Yeah.
In April, I already had cherry tomatoes.
Crazy. Yeah. Because they need, like, 60 to 80, 90 days in the garden, and you got a serious jump on it. Yeah. I remember I first heard that you could plant tomatoes at Valentine's. I was like, what planet am I on? This is crazy. Coming from a place where you shut down the garden, you know, for a bit. It's really cool. Okay, so we got March, April, May. We're getting tomatoes, peppers, all the good stuff. And then June comes, and what's happening in Houston's garden?
It's starting to heat up.
Oh, no. Say it ain't so.
It is starting to heat up. We're starting to see the high 90s, and now it's time to put in our eggplant and okra and a lot of things that will be able to withstand the heat of the upcoming months and get those things planted. And we're completely taking out everything from actually before. Before that point, everything from the winter garden will have been out. And we're starting to do a lot more pruning on our tomatoes to promote more growth and just really preparing those gardens for that turnover, for that heat. Heat wave that's coming in Houston.
And if I remember correctly, I remember a couple years, I'd leave my tomatoes in and I would pretty much regret it because I'd leave them. They looked alive, but the tomatoes really stopped coming once those nighttime temperatures never dropped below, like, 80.
Yeah. I really like to encourage to, you know, take the. Take the items out of the garden that are no longer producing, although you'll have all that greenery and it'll be completely beautiful. I mean, what is a Nicole Arch without completely covered in greenery?
Exactly. That's why it's there for green. Right.
So but it's encouraged to get that out of the garden because if it's not going to produce anymore, then it's just a host where pests can hide, and it could be way more problems than you want. So getting them out of the garden at an ideal time is definitely something that I like to encourage my clients. Now, if they have. There's that one chance that you have someone that's like, I got a photo shoot or I'm having, like, a party.
Don't take a dimple. Yeah. It is so sad when it goes from full to bear.
Yes. But we still make a plan to, you know, okay, as soon as that's over, let's get it out as soon as possible. And in which case I will start to plant something else in its place. So the sprout at least has begun. So when we get ready to take it out gently, then we don't disturb what's already growing.
Yeah. So that's so crazy and so different. Right. So you're hitting June, July, and you're actually going to have some bareness in the garden because you're pulling things from the warm season. And then you've now filled it with okra, eggplants, all the things you mentioned. Okay. So we sweat it out and jump in the pool a few times in between gardening. And we've made it to, like, say, August, September. Now what's happening in the garden?
August. September is a second warm season. So we replicate a lot of the things we saw during spring. At the end of the early part of the year, frost and So a lot of our peppers. I encourage that time. I really go heavily on the peppers more than I would have in the springtime, because there's just so much more in the springtime that you can plant. But when we get to August, September, the temperatures in Houston are still iffy.
Yeah, like, they're still iffy, as in hottie.
They're sweat, sweaty. One day, you could totally. It could be a. It could feel like fall. Like, oh, okay, you know, it's here, but then the next day, it's 106. So I really try to push, you know, the peppers and the things that can withstand the heat. I may even plant some, depending on how they're. Like, for instance, their eggplant or okra is growing. I may even encourage some more of the, like, taller plants so that when the fall come and I can start to add their lettuces. I have so many tall vegetables that can provide the shade so they can get an early jump. So I. I'll see how the okra, the taller plants are doing and add in some areas with the forecasting of how I can hide some of that fall stuff early.
I really like that. That's awesome working those plants together. All right, so we've got. We're like. We get a second round of tomatoes, peppers, all that stuff that most people only get one go at.
Right.
If your spring was a fail, no worries. Three months later, you get to do it all over again.
You get to try it again.
So cool. All right, so we're doing this, like, August, September, October. Now we're toward the end of the year. November, December. What? It's done.
It's a Brassica party.
A Brassica party.
I love it. That's my favorite, the Brassica party.
And you're invited.
Yes.
I love it. All right, so tell us what's in the Brassica family?
We have a lot of our leaves, a lot of the greenery, if you're. If you love salads. And just. I can. I can eat the green in my garden day in and day out before I'd even make it in the house. I just. I just graze the leaves of, like, literally everything in my garden. So our mustards, collards, lettuces. Not spinach, not. Not quite yet. But a lot of the other broccolis, cauliflower, kale, arugula, Swiss chard. That is a beauty in the garden. Yeah. A lot of the green that you get, a lot of the arugulas.
So yummy. And how cool is the garden? Like, that's when people are more prone to get sick. Yes. And your garden's like medicine. Yes. Here for you. Antioxidants.
Antioxidants.
All kinds of protection from the bad bugs. Not like in the garden, but the cold and the flu bugs. You're like giving yourself a flu shot every day.
Right?
I love that. All right, so the garden is packed when other parts of the country are, like, under snow, you're under leaves.
Right.
You're under green.
It's very lush and green.
And she's telling the truth. I went in her garden last week and that thing is packed with green. It's incredible. Okay, so cool. And then the whole process starts all over again.
The whole process starts all over again.
So those brassicas you're just talking about, all those leaves, you're growing those all through December, January. And then it starts to warm up again. You tuck in some tomatoes, and it's just a non stop garden party. Non, stop, Non stop. Oh, my goodness. I do miss. I don't miss July, but I do miss the non stopness. It's awesome. Okay, so do you have a favorite thing of all the plants we talked about that you could teach me how to grow in the garden? Some plant that you're just. You're really good at it. And you can give me the step by step.
My. My favorite thing to eat from my garden.
And that's where we have to start. That is where we have to start is the eating. The eating start with the end in mind. This is going in the mouth, in the belly. All right, so kale.
Kale is my favorite thing to eat in the garden. I never ate kale before I started gardening. And kale is pretty simple to grow. I will say I love to teach people how to grow our tomatoes, though. Oh, tomatoes.
You wanna do that one then?
Yes, let's do that one.
Let's go. Tomato. Do it.
Tomatoes. What I love about tomatoes is their versatility. But what I've learned, the best way to plant a tomato is to go all the way down to that first leaf node. So dig pretty deep. Cut off a lot of the bottom. The bottom? Just bottom leaves.
You going in a raised bed or in the ground?
In the raised beds.
Okay, got it. And in plant, do you put anything special down there? I've seen people put, like, fish salts, Epsom salts. They like, get their showers. Epsom salt. Put it down there. Do you put any of that down there? I just put it down.
I don't. I don't put.
You just got good soil. You trust the soil.
I trust my soil. I do use a lot of compost, and I plant it pretty low in the ground, pretty deep in the ground, rather than. And then just really focus on pruning and spacing and.
Got it. So it's in the ground. You cut the leaves off. Do you add anything on top when you put the plant in on the top of the plant, like fertilizer or any kind of stuff?
I do add fertilizer. I do add a lot of compost, too. I add compost into the hole where I dig for before I plant the plant.
Okay, are you. I think I know the answer to this question, but are you doing this on an arch trellis?
Yes, I am.
Okay, so how many tomato plants per arch trellis?
I do. If it's a client that's committed to trellising, I usually will do two on an arch trellis on each side. But if it's a novice and they're just kind of like alone, you know, just one person, then I'll stick with one. And then we'll encourage it to branch out and just kind of make a lot of side shoots and cover the trellis. But they won't be overwhelmed with tomatoes and having to do a lot of pruning.
So they have to make a commitment here.
They do, yeah.
They gotta say, like, I'm in it, I'm gonna prune it, I'm gonna use it. Otherwise you're, you're pulling back. You're only gonna give them one.
I'm gonna give them one, and I'm gonna teach them how to maintain that one. And we're gonna train it to grow up the trellis. And after a certain point, I don't really do the pruning and, you know, notching of the leaves. I just kind of let it do its thing so that it can cover the trellis and give them kind of a non stop growth on the vine, on the trellis, growing up the trellis.
Okay, so you're putting the plant in the ground after frost. And then give me like the stages. Like we're at day 30.
What's happening at day 30? We're starting to see some little green cherry. Cherry tomatoes not really ready to harvest yet. But we're starting first. Yes. We'll actually see the, the flower buds first. And then we'll go in and then I'll add a blooming fertilizer that'll encourage more blooms to get more tomatoes to come in.
And then we'll say we're on day 50 now. What's happening.
We're on day 50 and I'm encouraging a lot of pruning and encourage the prunings for more growth and to also encourage it to not grow off into too many branches if it becomes overwhelming to start to maintain.
What are you pruning when you prune?
I prune what part of the tomato plant? Yes, I do prune the suckers. I've heard different.
Uh huh. I see. No, I love it, I love it. Tell us, tell us, why do you prune the suckers?
I prune the suckers because pruning the. I'm drawing a blank. The other, the non suckers, the non suckers main stem, instead of pruning those, I have better control over how wide the plant will branch out and have all the other, you know, like leggy parts where it's branched off and made more parts of the tomato, basically its own other tomato plant. Growing from the side of the tomato.
Plant, you like to be in control.
Yes.
You're in the driver's seat here with this tomato.
Yes. So controlling it by taking the suckers encourages the, the, the plants, the, the tomatoes that are growing to continue to put off bigger, healthier, bigger plants instead of so many little ones. What I found personally in my garden is the more I have, it requires a whole lot more maintenance and tying back and, and trying not to cut more than 30% of the plant. It just becomes overwhelming. And then I have more waste than I actually want. Love it.
So strain the suckers, keep that main stem on the trellis. I hear ya. And then you're gonna get bigger tomatoes. Bigger tomatoes, not as many, but bigger. And then bring me to the end. So I planted this. Let's say I followed your rule and I did it in February. When do I get my first tomato?
You get your first tomato, you'll start to see your first Tomato around the 30 day mark. But once they've gone from green to red to. Now your salad, we're looking at around day 50, 60.
Oh wow. Super fast. That's so cool.
And then I also really have a conversation with my client about what their intentions are. If they want a interdeterminate tomato that'll give them a lot over a period or if they want to, they're an experienced gardener and maybe say they want to try to make ketchup.
Yeah.
Tomato sauce, they want a can pasta sauce. Then I encourage. Right. I encourage all at once. So they'll get all of that growth in the end and they'll have a huge harvest at the End of the life of the plant to be able to do that. And they won't have to harvest.
Harvest every single day.
Right.
And pile it up and watch it not be nice when it's time to make your stuff.
Right.
I love that.
Knowing the audience and knowing their intention behind that plan is super important for what type of plant I would suggest that they put into their garden. And also, again, how many are they trying to feed? What are their intentions as far as harvesting? What does that look like for them? And if they want the unruliness of a huge plant or if they want to keep it simple and just have a few tomatoes to satisfy them, is how I go into the process of what type of tomatoes I actually plant in their garden. Everyone in Houston wants tomatoes. The beginner gardeners, the experienced gardeners. It's just like tomato is what make everyone feel super successful.
I know. It's the crown jewel of the garden, right?
Yes. Making sure they have exactly what it is. Their desires for that particular season is super important. So that kind of funnels or spearheads, what type of tomatoes I plant in their garden.
I love that. So if you want a little bit every day, you just want to, like, you're not into the canning, the processing, you just want, like a few bites. We're going to go with the vining indeterminate. And then every single day, you can just go pick a few. And if you're like, I am Martha Stewart, like, I am going to make my own pasta sauce, my own pizza sauce, my own saucy sauce, then you want to go with the determinate. It's going to be a bush tomato. You'll get all your tomatoes at once. You're going to be covered in sauce, and you're going to feel so amazing because Latasha helped you do it.
That's correct.
Exactly. Okay. I love it. All right, I've got two questions left for you. Yes. Okay. Back in the day, when you were doing that, that yoga. What's a good yoga? The samurai warrior warrior pose. Warrior pose, tree pose, next to those plants. And you're like, I want that. What would you tell her back then? What's a piece of advice you would give her?
I would tell her to get out of her head. Oh, get out of her head. Stop trying to rationalize everything. Gardening is an experience. And what I've learned is trying to. You can teach the wrong way, per se, in yoga because you deal with a lot of different people with a lot of different ailments. And in my head, when I Started to garden. I wanted to make sense of it. I was trying to move away from that corporate mindset of it has to make sense and everything is black and white. I found with gardening that it's an experience. It's now becoming a way of life for a lot of people, but it's definitely an experience that you have every time you go into the garden. So not trying to find a black and white. What works for one garden may not work for the next garden because it's not a black and white scenario. We are dealing. We're going against Mother Mother Earth, we're going against the elements, we're going against your son needs. And you may be located different from the sun and someone else. So definitely taking the. The hard part out of it and just loving every part of it has really transformed many gardens. When you just do what you love and not really have any real hardcore expectations. Because every single garden is different.
Yeah. And every year is different.
Right? Every year is different. Every season is different. So just really taking the hard part out of the mental part of it has been so good.
The key release the expectations, trust the experience.
That's it.
Yeah. It is an experience. I love that word. All right, last question. What is your legacy going to be? What do you want to leave behind? What is your big, big, big dream?
That gardening doesn't have to look one way. It's not one look. It's not one body type. It's not one situation. It's not one demographic of people.
Yeah.
It looks very different on everyone, and it's for everyone. And I love when I have that client that says I don't have a green thumb. Actually, you just don't have a Latasha. Because I can set it up where there's going to be minimal to very few issues and that. And when you're off to a great start, then it makes things so much more easier to maintain. When I set you up in a situation that's perfect just for you, but this could be applied to anybody. It's. It just. It doesn't look one way. It's not cookie cutter. And I appreciate the gardenary experience that have allowed me to also take to add my, you know, add freedom to it. And it's been a foolproof way of helping each and every single client achieve success. Just knowing, you know, what works for you individually, it's not one set of people. I remember some time back that vegetarians all look the same. It was all catered, you know, you couldn't find it in regular stores. But, you know, vegetarian food. And so now it's kind of just mainstream, and everyone can get their hands on it. Gardening is the same way. You can start on a patio, you can start in a small space. You don't have to look a certain way or be a certain way, be in a particular neighborhood, be facing a certain. There's something for everybody. And I love that about gardening and where we're going on this. It's not a wave. It's not a wave. It's a way of life now.
I love that. And what a mission to stand behind. The garden is for everyone. It's for everyone. And there's always a shape, a size for every single person on the planet. All right, let's go make it happen. How do people find you online? How are they going to follow you and learn from you and garden with you?
You can find me on Instagram and on Facebook at a newharvest, and you can find me in the gardenary consultant.
Yeah. So you're a N E U A N E U H A r v s t.com.com or on Instagram, same handle. A N E U harvest.
That is correct.
Yes.
A new day. A new day.
A new day. A new way. A new harvest. With lots of tomatoes.
Yes.
And covered in greens.
That's it.
Your inspiration. And I'm so honored that you're part of Gardenary. And I can't believe I get to do life with you and share gardens with you.
Thank you.
And I hope every single person listening to this follows you and hires you to get over there and make their garden anew.
That's it.
Let's go. I love it.
Let's do it.
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