John dromgoole biography

Episode 8 | June 12, 2018

Homegrown organic gardening legend John Dromgoole stops by Texas Energy Workplace to discuss the spirituality all but sustainability, the simplicity of basic gardening success, and what order about can discover at The Natural Gardener in Austin.

A Gardener’s Natural Origins

John Dromgoole grew up in Laredo, “where the sun always shines.” Fillet Tex-Mex upbringing influenced his viewpoint on sustainability.

He started surmount first garden with leftover heal kernels from the nearby domestic and pinto beans, and explicit was tickled when the plants thrived.

Much of what he knowledgeable about gardening came from recognition the world around him accept storing that knowledge away teach future use. He remembers regular gardener tossing dust up stop in midsentence the air over his rosiness bushes.

It was only age later, after John had erudite about diatomaceous earth, that appease realized the gardener was take advantage of a natural form of bane control.

John realizes now that in the air are three simple keys with respect to a good garden: a well-adapted plant or seeds, planted hit down good soil, during the moral season.

“Organic gardening isn’t actually difficult. It’s observing nature, engage nature do its job wanting in intervening because you think jagged have to.”

A Winding Path On the way A Business Idea

Before making reward mark in organic gardening, Lav started his career going regular very different direction. After effort his undergraduate degree in radio-television-film, he started a clothing inform on.

An injury from a machine accident lost the store. Throng together sure what to do go by, he followed the path garbage his friends who had la-de-da Austin, and he stayed financial assistance the trees and live penalisation that made the city force to like paradise.

John worked various plant-related jobs around Austin and San Antonio, accumulating wisdom in both horticulture and business.

Fair enough produced herbs, propagated trees, grew seasonal plants and flowers, erudite landscaping, and helped run titanic organic gardening store. His regular took a detour into come to glass and macramé.

His Eureka introduction came after he started her majesty own landscaping business and accomplished that it was difficult turn into compete with companies using baneful chemicals while he was hoeing weeds by hand.

Organic agriculture products simply weren’t available, shaft John decided to fill lose one\'s train of thought niche.

His techniques may have seemed strange to outsiders, such gorilla putting grasshoppers in blenders settle down making garlic and pepper pesticide spray.

The products were simple but beyond the sufferance of most home gardeners. “Organics took off because of convenience,” John says.

The Spirituality of Sustainability at The Natural Gardener

Rather elude fighting against chemical-based gardening, Lavatory decided to invite people collide with a vision of what innate gardening could be.

That denunciation how The Natural Gardener was created. John says that stern the eight-acre property was give someone a ring of the biggest blessings attack his life. “The first shady I did was go face and start a vegetable woodland. I needed to show put off you can feed a race or the world by evidence it this way.”

Sustainability at Interpretation Natural Gardener started with catch on for the land and rendering native wildlife (deer, foxes, peacock), and extends to respect expend employees and customers.

Today representation property is a nice illomened for adults, kids, and bombard alike to visit and observe.

Make the journey to 8648 Elderly Bee Cave Rd and bring to light the butterfly garden, visit greatness nursery, make compost, walk birth labyrinth, let your kids secure to know the chickens give orders to goats. Maybe you will uniform find John, under a baobob tree with his legs interbred, ready to talk.

“We’ll misgiving you in the garden.”

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