Greetings!

 

Welcome to my website, Gardener Shicole!  Here you can follow my family’s gardening journey, including urban gardening and harvest recipes.

 

Who is Gardener Shicole?

 

My name is Shawnta (Shawn-tay) Shicole (Sh-cole), and I am a married mother of identical twin boys.  When I am not gardening, I am a full-time education consultant with Blazing Brilliance, serving schools and education-adjacent organizations across Indiana and beyond. I also teach at the university level and host an education podcast called Brazen Education. Last, I am the CEO & Co-Founder of Brave Brothers Books.

 

Most importantly, I was taught at an early age the power of connecting family through growing your own food.

 

My Journey to Gardening!

 

As a child, I remember visiting my Great Uncle Moses' home and walking through the many rows of his large vegetable garden. People from his neighborhood stopped by on the weekends to socialize and to pick vegetables.  When I was in first grade, my parents purchased a house.  A few years later, my dad and his cousin tilled part of our backyard, and we started our own garden. Having a garden in my backyard as a child grew my love of gardening.

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In 2006, I married my wonderful husband, Jermaine, and the following year, 2007, we purchased our first house. A couple of years after moving into our home, I wanted to start my own garden, as my father did. In 2009, my dad built us a 3 x 6 raised bed, and we have been gardening ever since.

 

In 2019, right before the COVID-19 pandemic, we moved to our current home, only four streets from our first home. My husband, twin boys, and I have been expanding our second garden. What is great is that we are avoiding the design flaws we had in our first garden. 

 

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