Theo Wiederkehr

Organization: Carrick Seeds

Location: Mildmay, Ontario Canada

Biography

Our family has almost always had a garden to grow at least some of our own food; these have ranged in size from a tiny backyard plot in Hamilton, Ontario, to our current expansive gardens. I grew up being forced – er, strongly encouraged – to help my parents with their gardening, developing fond childhood memories of picking potato beetles in the hot sun and nursing a lettuce back to health after it had been chewed by deer. Like many a child, I grew up hating many vegetables. But when helping my dad with his little garden in Prey Veng, Cambodia (my favourite crop: yard-long beans; most detested crop: eggplant) I realized that I enjoyed gardening even if I didn’t enjoy the food we got from it. Since then I have slowly developed a fondness for more and more of the foods we can grow. I like eating almost all the things in our catalogue; the others are favourites of other members of my family.

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