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Growing up in rural Texas, Jill Oliver was exposed to gardening from an early age. The daughter of a pecan farmer, she helped pick strawberries and peaches from the family garden, and still recalls the pleasures of biting into a homegrown tomato or digging into a meal made with freshly picked herbs. “No other hobby gives back to you like gardening does,” she marvels. “I wanted to share that passion with others.”
After building a career as a speech-language pathologist, she took time out to raise her three children, then decided to