Grow Backyard Produce

Tricia Wrubleski
Senior Staff Accountant, Accounting & Policy Research
Entergy New Orleans
New Orleans, LA

Tricia's Story:

I have always enjoyed gardening.   Observing the diversity of plant life and plants' life cycles fills me with awe, joy, and hope.  I love the way that small seeds grow into mature plants that bear fruit and leave behind seeds that restart the process.  In  our family's  backyard vegetable  garden  we are growing lettuce, sugar snap peas, bush beans, tomatoes, basil, parsley, coriander, banana peppers and butternut squash.  These vegetables supplement our family meals.  Garden and yard waste is composted.  The composted soil is added back to our vegetable and flower gardens.  We employ organic gardening methods and strive to avoid chemical fertilizers and pesticides.  Our home grown vegetables provide fresh food and reduce our trips to the grocery produce department.  I like to think that in some small way our home gardening and other conservation practices make an impact by reducing our consumption of natural resources and environmental pollution.