Don't know Higgins? Hire a Coach!

by Susan Harris - originally published in April of 2007.
Did you catch Adrian Higgins' story in today's Washington Post about taking on the job of teaching fellow staffer Lauren Wiseman to garden?  He's teaching her from scratch.  How much of a newbie is she?  Well, she bought some full-length and no doubt hot-as-hell wellies from J. Crew as her gardening shoes - that's how much of a newbie, so Higgins has his work cut out for him.  To accompany the story of this journey, wherever it leads, is Lauren's on-line journal, The Budding Gardener - what a great idea.

So I applaud Higgins for the story idea and for his usual excellent advice.  But what should people do if they don't happen to work alongside an Adrian Higgins?  Why, hire a Gardening Coach, of course.  Funny thing -  I was recently interviewed by the New York Times for a story they're doing about gardening coaches, so I'm interested to see that I'm not the only one and curious to learn something about the others out there, somewhere.  You can bet I'll link to it here if and when it ever appears in the paper.

by Susan Harris - originally published in April of 2007.
Did you catch Adrian Higgins' story in today's Washington Post about taking on the job of teaching fellow staffer Lauren Wiseman to garden?  He's teaching her from scratch.  How much of a newbie is she?  Well, she bought some full-length and no doubt hot-as-hell wellies from J. Crew as her gardening shoes - that's how much of a newbie, so Higgins has his work cut out for him.  To accompany the story of this journey, wherever it leads, is Lauren's on-line journal, The Budding Gardener - what a great idea.

So I applaud Higgins for the story idea and for his usual excellent advice.  But what should people do if they don't happen to work alongside an Adrian Higgins?  Why, hire a Gardening Coach, of course.  Funny thing -  I was recently interviewed by the New York Times for a story they're doing about gardening coaches, so I'm interested to see that I'm not the only one and curious to learn something about the others out there, somewhere.  You can bet I'll link to it here if and when it ever appears in the paper.