Louisville, Ohio
United States
The first African American Master Nationally Accredited Landscape Design Critic. Became Emeritus in 2002. Currently, a ten(10) year garden professional at the Home Depot. Former garden & landscape design instructor Kent State University. Horticulturist for the Anheuser-Busch Corporation at Sea World of Ohio. Clubhouse gardener for the American Golf Corpoation for three (3) golf courses. National, state and local awards in horticulture and design. Worked with the staffs of Busch Gardens and Cypress Gardens
My hometown is Canton, Ohio, the home of the Professional Football Hall of Fame
"Hand-in-hand with nature is my motto!
Get Ready, Get Set, Grow!
Journal #16
August 28, 2008
I am certainly looking forward to attending the Life@50 AARP Convention next week in
All of the six winners of the AARP “My Dream Job” contest will be in attendance at this auspicious occasion including myself. We each will be giving an audience of interested 50 plus persons a bird’s eye view of how much we have accomplished to fulfill our particular dream job endeavors. We have only been at this since January of this year when we were announced as the winners. If you have been following all of our personal journals “blogs”, you can see how diverse each one of our dream jobs are and the progress, or lack there of we all have made, or not made.
For me personally, it has been a roller coaster ride, sometimes I think I am going full steam ahead. Other times, I feel that I have completely grinded to a complete stop. I have certainly tried my best to put myself in a position when I made much more progress then I did in a stand still mode. My dream involves the cooperation of Mother Nature in order for me to succeed at all. Without her help, I am sunk .My entire dream is the preservation of live goods, in particular rare species and varieties of nearly extinct plants These heirloom varieties must be carefully handled as not to put them into further danger. I am called upon to muster all of my training as a horticulturist to work with these fragile plants that I grow from seed.
In September after I return from the convention, I will be able to tell what kind of harvest I will have to pass on to my interested heirloom seed clients. Thus far, Mother Nature has been kind to me this season and I expect to be able to get a decent share of seeds to sell.
I am so looking forward to meeting all of my fellow winners at the convention. I think it will be a lovely meeting of kindred spirits. I hope to be able to relate the importance to others of what I am trying to do by saving and preserving my edible antiques. So here I am: “Ready, Set, Grow”
See you all next week!
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