Well Fed Gardener

I’ve been gardening for nearly 60 Years now.

I started gardening when I was a toddler following my Father around. At first, he didn’t like me messing up his garden but he knew I wanted to help, so he helped me make my own little garden right by his, so we could “work” together.

In those days on the farm, we grew and preserved everything we ate—vegetables, fruit, meat, milk, lard, butter, eggs, honey, etc. We baked our own bread too. About all we bought was flour (in 100 pound printed flour sacks, which Mom used to make clothing from), sugar, salt, pepper, spices and other minor things we couldn’t produce on the farm.

I know this sounds nostalgic and pastoral and in some ways it is. But we really did live simple and well and we really didn’t know or appreciate just how good that was.

I’m a Master Gardener and gardening has been a life-long hobby.

Time passed—I pursued a “professional career” as a Process Engineer.

Fast-forward: I was “right-sized” following a corporate merger and “pre-maturely retired.”
This is where The Well Fed Gardener and other sites come in.

I wasn’t ready to be “retired” and at age 61 I didn’t want another JOB either. After some soul searching, I decided to go for metamorphosis—to follow my heart, my passions, my serious interests and see if there was some way I could turn my hobbies and interests into a fun and enjoyable living and lifestyle.

I made some early internet business mistakes

Feeling intense pressure and urgency to replace lost income and get started on my new way as fast as possible, I attended a hype seminar promoting a work-at-home in your pajamas or work from the deck of a vacation cruise ship and watch the money roll in 24/7. That cost me more than $5,000.00 up front and a couple of years of wasted effort without income. But I learned to beware of the big fat empty claims and extreme hype related to doing business on the internet.

Then I found SBI!

They didn’t promise overnight success—in fact just the opposite. They encouraged me to follow a very thorough and well laid out step-by-step process, complete each step BEFORE going on to the next and get my new business right the first time.

Feeling even more intense urgency to make up for lost time; I “rushed” the SBI! Process and skipped over some of the crucial first steps in building a successful internet business. That didn’t work. So now, a couple of years even further down the road, I’m re-building this site and getting it right. It didn’t have to be that way. At least I didn’t have a lot of up-front money invested this time.

Thanks to my dear wife for hanging in there with me.

I expect these gardening websites will be an on-going continuous improvement process. Please visit often and thanks in advance for your comments, suggestions, questions and contributions.
Contact: Charles Tutt, 7010 W. Gillespie Bridge Road, Columbia, MO. 65203 ctutt@centurytel.net 573-446-7435