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About Home Garden Joy

Home Garden Joy is a gardening website to help people who kill plastic plants learn how to grow delicious, organic food: fruit, vegetables, and herbs. We also include recipes, so you can cook what you grow, and information on preserving vegetables. And, because we believe that gardening is both a healthy activity and can support good health, we feature herb gardening, herbal medicine, and garden-related health and wellness articles.

Jeanne’s Story – How Home Garden Joy Began

garden educator Jeanne Grunert

In 2007, we did what our family and friends said was crazy. We sold our New York City area home and moved to a 17-acre farm in rural Virginia. I had learned to garden from my father, an avid plantsman and participant in the Long Island Chrysanthemum Society, and from my next-door neighbor, a retired chemistry teacher who transformed his suburban backyard into a mini farm. Now, I finally had a chance to grow my dream garden. With tons of help from my husband and father-in-law, we built a large raised bed garden, erected a shed, and planted over a dozen fruit trees. I have since added herb gardens, an elaborate perennial flower garden, and taught myself how to can and preserve food. I was a Virginia Master Gardener (but have since stepped aside.)

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