About Us Here At Soak And Soil
Hello, welcome and thank you for your interest about us folks here at Soak And Soil!
We are simple hobby gardeners passionate about growing plants, flowers, herbs and vegetables in our urban setting.
Our goal is to connect gardeners with limited space with tips, tools and techniques which will help you grow your own version of nature. We want to connect you with the experts that will empower your interest in all things garden, and to your fellow gardeners so we can all learn from each other as well.
Meet The Authors Of Soak And Soil
Aside from the original creator and founder of Soak and Soil, the content is written by a father and daughter team residing in Ottawa, Canada.
(The Garden Security Consultant does not contribute to the articles directly, but does manage to participate all the same.)
Jeff Current
I became interested in gardening just over 15 years ago, learning the basics with an outdoor container garden, and then progressing to an outdoor raised bed growing vegetables and herbs. During the winter I experimented with hydroponic gardening in the basement, in order to have fresh vegetables and herbs year-round.
The more I failed the more I tried, and I became hooked on the harvesting my own food.
Looking to retire from my career as a Project Manager in the construction industry, I saw this opportunity to purchase the SoakandSoil.com and combine my love of growing vegetables with the potential of internet based income, while involved in something I am keenly passionate about.
Partnering with SoloBuildIt! to provide the technical back-end, was a good decision, as it allowed me to focus on the content that I wanted to see. That is the short story on why I have embarked on the SoakandSoil.com journey!
Thalie Current
I became interested in gardening in a more gradual way. It started with helping my grandmother plant her flowers in the spring and really enjoying my time talking and playing around in the dirt. They are some of my most treasured memories and will always be. A couple years in the future and I'm planting my own plants at home and helping my dad grow our backyard garden!
In between the gardening hobby, after high school, I worked as a custom furniture woodworker for a good year and a half. I still do on the side and have delved into different arts, recently being wood burning! I also draw, paint, sculpt, and a bunch of other artsy stuff, whatever I discover and can get my hands on!
I hope you enjoy the art I've provided for our website!
Lilo - Garden Security Consultant
Lilo as the Head of Garden Security, carries important duties.
She takes her role of keeping squirrels and rabbits out of the garden quite seriously, as any good security consultant should!
In addition, she provides support and four-legged wisdom (her barks are paws-itively inspirational) to the team here at SoakAndSoil. Cuddle times have an open door, perhaps even a revolving door, policy.
Lilo keeps a vigilant eye on the surrounding neighbourhood with regular patrols, and ensures treat inventories are conducted every day.
History of Soak And Soil.
We purchased the original Soak And Soil blog from the original creator. Having other demands on his time, we connected and were happy to continue his hard work in the new format.
We saw an opportunity to focus on the space limited urban gardener, just like us! So we embarked on retooling from the original blog only format, to what you see here today.
We hope you enjoy the content, feel like participating, and communicating with gardeners just like us, as much as we enjoy adding to the "growing" community ourselves!
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