Welcome To Taking Root

 

 

Welcome! Welcome! Welcome!

 

We are so glad that you have joined us on our new adventure into homesteading.

I'm Kelly and my husband Tom and I live on 2.5 acres in the small town of Rhome, Texas.

 

I met Tom 4.5 years ago and he already lived on this beautiful piece of land. Of course at the time I was a city girl and wasn't sure what to do with all this. He seems to recall me saying eww, mud! a lot LOL and refusing to go out back to feed the horses with him for that reason. I didn't do mud!

 

I have always loved gardening but never had the room to do much. My passion was mainly herbs. I loved to grow herbs. So I began with a very small area and planted just a couple of tomatos. I know, not herbs lol

The next year I started really looking at things and found an area I loved and turned into a good sized garden area with a picket fence, a pond and a small area for more vegeatables.

Then one day it hit me, if your going to have a pond, why not have a duck? So we got a peking duck. One duck became 2 ducks and now have Duck Duck and Gracie. Duck Duck started out as Daisy but she would so often walk around quacking and it sounded just like duck, duck, duck, duck, so her name was stuck. Now Gracie, well that duck trips over her own feet walking through the garden. Bless her ducky heart, she just is not graceful at all.

 

The following year, the garden bug was really settling in good and I decided that where I was growing our herbs and vegetables was just not big enough anymore. We had a huge dog run on the backside of the garden and I kept looking at it thinking that would be so perfect for my new garden. So project move the dog pen began and I now have a second garden :)

 

And this is how Taking Root was born. I was loving gardening so much that I decided why not share what we do. We could grow our own plants and sell them, a backyard nursery if you will. My wonderful husband built me a greenhouse and we began. We went over a million names and nothing seemed to fit. We gave a lot of thought to what we were doing and what we wanted and finally came up with Taking Root. That is what we were doing after all. We have a nice piece of land where we plan to live for a very long time, we were planning to get married so this is where we were laying down our roots. It fit!

 

We are a very small nursery at this time, doing what we can handle while also working main jobs. We grow mainly vegetables and herbs at this time. We do plan to expand into flowers, annuals and perennials, trees, and shrubs. We will eventually be offering seeds from our plants as well.

We do not use any pesticides on our plants and never will. We like to think of it as organic but will call it all natural :)

We have huge plans for Taking Root but a little at a time.

 

Well that is a little about us and how we got started. There is so much more to tell, but we will get to it. Thank you for following us into this exciting new journey.

Stay tuned.. Next post will be how we got started with CHICKENS!!!!