Ever since she was a young child Kathleen always felt most “at home” when she was out-of-doors in nature.  She also feels a special connection with all life from plants and animals to trees and rocks. This connection with nature started as a small child in her grandfather’s garden and the woods she was free to roam in during her youth in New England.  Her grandfather’s “backyard garden” consisted of flowers, a grapevine and vegetables and provided the bulk of his grown family’s needs.  This included her grandparents, and their three grown children and their families (16 people).   

Born and raised in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts surrounded by the Berkshire Mountains, Kathleen went on to attend the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts and graduated with a degree in Marketing / Management, a career she followed until 2004 when she decided to pursue her passion for gardening and her love of nature. While her children were young she lived on a two-acre property in a 115-year old house in Connecticut for seven years.  One acre of which was always left wild and the other which was covered with flower, herb and vegetables gardens (all organic) along with the house.  Her gardens produced so prolifically that she started a small garden stand in her front yard. 

She and her family moved to North Carolina in 1988 and the learning began all over again as she learned to garden in the South. Now she desires to share this information with all who are interested in living simpler, healthier and more balanced lives.   

The gift to all of us in this is that as we work in harmony with nature to create more balanced landscapes, nature in turn affects us, and begins to bring our lives into more harmony.  How much is up to us.