HeyJaredI Dig Your Story
Unearthing the personal stories behind the plants, people, gardens, and green spaces that shape our lives.I Dig Your Story is a podcast that celebrates the people behind the plants — growers, breeders, retailers, educators, and the gardeners who make horticulture bloom.
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Rayne Gibson: From Family Nursery to “The Resource I Wish I Had” (opens the original)
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Rayne Gibson grew up in family-owned wholesale nursery in Louisiana, learning the business from the ground up. By the time he graduated from LSU with a horticulture degree, he had a very specific vision: build up the operation into a multi-state container nursery business and become one of the best nurserymen in the industry. Then everything changed. In this episode of I Dig Your Story, Rayne talks about leaving the family business after realizing the future he had been promised wasn’t going to
Laura Kunkle: How Flowers Transform Communities (opens the original)
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Laura Kunkle’s career has taken some unexpected turns—from wanting to be a professional piano player at the Olympics, to sports broadcasting, accounting at Highlights for Children, and eventually a decades-long career in the green industry. Today, she’s the executive director of America in Bloom, an organization helping communities across the country become better places to live, work, visit, and invest in. In this episode, Laura and I talk about how America in Bloom uses trees, flowers, environ
Ashley Vernon: How Curiosity Led to Community Orchards (opens the original)
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Ashley Vernon’s relationship with plants began with childhood curiosity—tasting honeysuckle, exploring her grandmother’s grapevines, and growing her first strawberry patch—but the path to her career in community orchards was anything but predictable. Adopted as a baby, Ashley grew up curious about her background and where she came from. That curiosity became a kind of wanderlust, leading her from nursing to political science, international studies, and journalism, then to Belize, the Peace Corps
Leslie Halleck: Refusing to Stay in One Lane (opens the original)
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What happens when a lifelong love of plants meets an insatiable curiosity about, well, just about everything? For horticulturist, author, educator and entrepreneur Leslie Halleck, it has made for one fascinating career. Leslie and I go way back, so this conversation was a chance to talk not just about what she does, but how she got there. From growing up as an Army brat and gardening with an adopted German “Oma” to studying botany, working at a garden center, conducting research trials and event
Angelique Robb: Connecting the Branches of the Landscape Industry (opens the original)
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Angelique Robb didn’t grow up dreaming of a career in horticulture. She studied engineering, worked in the oil industry, and moved to Scotland before gradually finding her way into landscape design and build. Along the way, she discovered that the problem-solving, project management, and visualization skills she developed as an engineer were remarkably useful in the landscape industry. Today, Angelique is the owner of SYNKD, a media and events platform created to connect the many disciplines tha
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