County Extension Office & Vegetable Gardening

Image: Tima Miroshnichenko

Welcome back to my blog.

I recently learned about county extension offices. County extension offices are in almost every county in the United States. They offer unbiased, research-based information for your location on agriculture & natural resources, 4-H youth development, and family & consumer services. 

While checking the site out, I was delighted to see that there was an upcoming event on vegetable gardening. On the event day, I made my first-ever visit to the extension office. The attendees were a diverse group of ages and gardening experience. The instructor shared so much information and answered everyone's questions. 

Since I considered myself in the research phase, I intended to wait to start something this year. The encouragement from the instructor in answering my questions helped boost my confidence (remember, done is better than perfect). I think I can start container gardening for peppers and cherry tomatoes. I can lacto-ferment those as hot sauce and have tomatoes for fall salads.

Here are some pictures from the presentation:

Image: wwonderwwho

Image: wwonderwwho

You can search for your local office here. County extension offices are in almost every county in the United States. Did you know about county extension offices? Have helpful tips for a beginner gardener? Please comment below.

Note: I will share a post in the future on my success with lacto-fermentation.

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Done is better than perfect

 ...because perfect never gets done. 

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I created this blog in my head years ago, but I never got around to actually creating it. I wanted the launch of it to be perfect so that people would flock to it and appreciate my content with likes, shares, and all the things.

For the past year, I have been telling myself to just start and not be afraid to be seen trying, not only for this blog but for my life in general. Really, perfection is personalized and subjective. I may think I need to do a lot of work and refinement to get it to where I think it is perfect, and you may think my first draft is perfect. 

The phrase, ''done is better than perfect,'' has been attributed to several people. Google presents dozens of results, but Sheryl Sandberg is the in the majority of the results I got. I don't know when I first heard it or read it, but in the past year, it has hit differently. 

Perfection has cost me a lot of opportunities for personal growth, allowing fear to squeeze me into its grips. Most regrettably, it has resulted in me rejecting myself and telling myself no as a form of protection from facing rejection from others. 

These are some of the ways I have applied this quote to my life in the past year: 

    ✔Started a job search for a career pivot in August 2022. 

    ✔Completed a career pivot cohort in February 2023.

    ✔Schedule a job search power hour for every day in April.

               

✔ Created this blog and published the first post. Despite what it looks like, the content is genuine and true to me in this season of my life. 

✔Created a Youtube channel to accompany this blog. 

What are your thoughts on this? Please share in the comments. 

Thank you for taking the time to read and engage with my content

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