Gardener Story: Nancy Eddins

Last year as a first time gardener was probably the most exciting thing ever.  To grow things with my own work was amazing.  The knowledge provided me by the ARCD was excellent, they were able to teach me to grow things.  Mind you I had killed cactus plants before....

Gardener Story: Opal Frye-Clark

       The outdoors and gardening has always been essential to my life. Like several in this area, I grew up on a farm. With my grandparents, we would plant a huge garden every year. Most of our fresh produce came from the results of that garden and I have very few...

Gardener Story: Laura Ciccone

We are a military family who retired from a duty station in upstate NY. It took us a couple of years toresearch our forever home leading to us moving to eastern Tennessee. Once we got here, we noticedimmediately there were some stark differences between what we were...