Jeanne Grunert is a certified Virginia Master Gardener and the author of several gardening books. Her garden articles, photographs, and interviews have been featured in The Herb Companion, Virginia Gardener, and Cultivate, the magazine of the National Farm Bureau. She is the founder of The Christian Herbalists group and a popular local lecturer on culinary herbs and herbs for health, raised bed gardening, and horticulture therapy.
Me again ;). You would love the farms here. We have tons of Mennonites in the area and their gardens are so picture perfect it makes one cry. I wish I could be so prolific in keeping my farm so beautiful but I have to remind myself they have large families that help a lot and their own greenhouses etc.! I don’t have that. I did get a small Mary garden going, not what I wanted but for now it will do. I have a large cement Mary statue in front of my house that came with it. She is too heavy for me to move on my own so I made a ring of bricks around her and planted it. I told hubby I want her to have a place of honor in the future. He is Catholic too but not practicing, one of those forced to go to church by an overbearing mother who had a need to appear perfect. But he lets me do as I please with my quickly growning Catholic pile of stuff that I keep rescuing from yard sales and thrift shops ;). Maybe I’ll start a blog and show some of the stuff I have. Would you come visit?
We just finished up a weeks worth of haying. 25 more acres to cut and bale and 1st crop will be done. Yay!