Reese Witherspoon move over!

3_suzipictureThis past July, I interviewed Suzi for the part-time position of gardening assistant. This job encompasses any random or planned work we need done on a given day. Her hands on gardening experiences impressed me, and her year spent working in farms across the country in WWOOFA the World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms.

When she started telling me about her non-gardening experiences, and mentioned she had hiked the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) for 6 months, I all but slammed my fist on the table and said, “You’re hired!”. Any woman that can hike from Mexico to Canada can handle working independently often on tough physically tasks with minimal instruction. (That is until I drive them crazy).

Suzi is in nursing school when she is not in gardens, so it works great for us all, especially when the season is slow, like now.

If you happen to see her filling bird feeders or watering pots at a house nearby, you may want to lure her into your kitchen for a hot cup of tea. Try to get her to talk about carrying gallons of water for weeks through the Mohave Desert, or the importance of buying top quality rain gear when hiking in continuous downpours in the Cascades, or how issues that seemed so big at home, whither in comparison to the vistas you wake up to every day.

The new movie release, “Wild”, of another woman’s journey on the PCT doesn’t hold a candle to Suzi’s!

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