Organic Gardener Podcast

Tell us a little about yourself.I'm from Minnesota originallyfamily typical upbringing in the suburbscareer as being a chefmy extensive hobby as being a gardenermarket gardeninggrowing up in the 80s food was sort of an afterreddishso I got a degree in psychologyneeded to do something a little more inspiringlived in Europe for a semester in collegetraveled around Europe and really saw food in a different lightexperienced it really differently from what I hadThen I decided to go to culinary school, I ended up in Vancouver BCrelatives out there as well so I came back to the twin citiesItalian kitchensownerskind of moved around bit as chefs do is quite normalI also started gardening at a fairly young ageearly twentiesI ended up dating a woman from the Ukraine, she had a strong gardening interestI had always been interested in nature as a young kidgardening with my parentsbut very simple, chard and green beans and that kind of thingI started working at a natural foods coop right next to a really old and thriv