Oh yes, I LIVE to garden--both veggies and flowers. I live in a historic village of 5000 called Hillsborough, near Chapel Hill and Durham, NC. We are from West Virginia, where we "homesteaded," but have been in NC for almost 20 years now. I tried growing flowers commercially for a few years, but couldn't afford to irrigate with city water, and didn't make enough $$ to justify drilling a well. Some years I still sell flowers and produce at the local farmers market. However, I work full time as a clinical social worker and have an 11 year old 'change-0f-life" youngin' so I am pretty pressed for time (who isn't, really!). We have 10 acres of what used to be an old tobacco farm about 15 miles out of town. When I retire I hope to be able to do some small scale commercial farming out there. There is a good market for organic produce here, and that land has been fallow for at least 15 years.

The creek behind our house empties into the Eno river a few blocks from here. If forms a little greenway for deer, fox, wild turkey, etc. to move through. I have more problems with groundhogs in the garden here than I ever had out in the country!

Janie