Every story has a beginning .
Mine blossom out on September 9 , 2010 . I had a fun idea : I desire to start a web log . I took a picture of my summertime harvest home and wrotemy first post .
I wrote about anything and everything : seedling , sunsets , surfing , make potting mix . “ subject matter ” was simple back then because I did n’t see it as mental object , I just wanted to apportion what made me felicitous . And if I could get a free pair of garden clogs out of it , hooray !
But exactly one year later , out of the blue sky , I wasawarded “ Best Gardening Blog ” by Country Living magazine , in a clock time when web log were still quirky and novel and something you did as a hobby .
That was when everything change for me .
( Keep reading to the oddment for something fun ! )
Never did I consider that small warmth project could turn into my job , or that 10 years by and by , I ’d still be hustling all things Garden Betty and doing work that I ’m dead obsessed with — in a unspoiled way . I love the unexpected turn that life story has taken , and the opportunities my blog has opened up over the years .
In the ten that I ’ve been share all thing gardening , wimp - safekeeping , cooking , and traveling , I ’ve also …
Gotten married , visited 14 countries , writtenthree cookbooksandrepublished one , gone on across - country book tour on the route , had a baby , had another baby , and summited dozens ofpeakson foot , chair lift , or prospicient drives .
I’vecamped all over the American West with a newborn . I ’ve bring home six pullets and five skirt . I ’ve pronounce goodbye to our pugs . I ’ve lived in three unlike homes andmoved to another statewhere the Robert Frost - spare growing time of year is just July and August ( for real ) .
I’vecanned hundreds of jarsin my kitchen and prepare countless meals for mob , friends , and strangers .
For the retiring 10 years , this petty space has always been where I wanted to spend my time . When I started my web log and give it a funny name ( which I ’ll get into in a minute ) , I did n’t vex about who was going to read my words or like my post ( mostly because I did n’t think anyone would ) .
I just wanted to write , run in my garden , and practice taking pictures of it .
Somewhere along the way , you joined me in this journey and I ’m so beaming you did . Your curiosity , benignity , and enthusiasm has pushed me to learn something novel every 24-hour interval so I can share it with as many people as potential .
Without you , Garden Betty would not be what it is today .
But about that name … I want to blog about my garden . And I wanted to infuse a little personality into the name , so I decided to apply a nickname I ’d always had in California — Betty — a moniker given to a lady friend in the skate / surf / snow scene .
Garden Betty . The world was available , and I bought it that day . No persuasion whatsoever as to stigmatisation , trademarks , any of that .
To be honest , if I ’d known it was going to turn into a job , I might ’ve gone with a unlike name . But it ’s short and catchy and I ’ve get used to suffice to Betty ( while also answeringlotsof consultation about how the name derive about ) .
So , that ’s the tiresome backstory to my blog name !
I ’ve rambled on enough . Shall we lionize ?
To thank you for being a part of my story , I ’ve pay off a pile of cookbook and a few of my preferent thing to give by to two readers . ( US residents only , sorry ! )
None of this is patronize , I bribe the particular with my own money to support company I screw . There ’s a natural endowment card to Gardener ’s Supply Company , heirloom seeds from Baker Creek ( which account for more than half the plant in my garden in any given time of year ) , the same exact visage I use every day from United by Blue ( everlasting for curb a vast amount of coffee berry , chai , or Camellia sinensis ) , the best Tellicherry peppercorns from The Reluctant Trading Experiment , and non - toxic sunscreen from Goddess Garden .
These are all thing I use almost day by day , and I desire you ’ll enjoy them too .
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I appreciate you ! Here ’s to the next 10 years !
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