Discover how these five garden coaches transformed themselves from cake artists, stay-at-home moms, and fashionistas, into garden coach business owners with the guidance of our consultant certification program.
Before becoming a garden coach, NaTasha McDonald was a cake artist. She joined Gardenary because she had a desire to teach other people how to grow their own vegetables. "I think it's really important for us to go back to our roots and where things started," she says, "and Gardenary had the perfect system, the perfect program, to get me started in that direction."
Now, she is the owner of 31Eden, a garden consulting company in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and loves witnessing clients learn and feel excitement about gardening, whether they're growing food for their families or to share with their community. "Gardening itself is a form of help and charity, and the person that loves gardening, even if they don't know everything, should get into the Gardenary program," she says.
Before finding Gardenary on Instagram, Crystal Jarvis was working various part-time jobs and taking care of her five children. She'd always loved to garden and realized she could have a much bigger vision for herself and share her passion for growing your own food with others.
Now, she's the owner of Lettuce Grow Something, a garden consulting company in Austin, Texas. Starting your own company can be challenging but has made Crystal grow as a person. She's proud to show her children what you can build when you work really hard at something and put in a lot of effort and time. If it weren't for Gardenary Consultant Certification, "I think I would never have seen the potential in myself," she says.
Annie Chubbuck of Seed and Vine was living in New York City and working in the fashion industry before becoming a stay-at-home mom and deciding to join Gardenary to jumpstart her business. "I found Nicole randomly on Instagram," she says, "and I saw what she was doing with Rooted Garden, and I said, 'That is exactly what I want to do with my business.'" Annie immediately joined GCC when she learned of its existence.
Annie is thrilled to have something for herself, to be able to build her business while also spending lots of time at home with her growing children. "It's a really powerful feeling," she says.
Katie Oglesby was still working full-time in the financial services industry when she finished her health certification and was looking for a way to turn her passion for gardening into something more. "Gardening's personal for me," she says. "It helped me reclaim my health." GCC helped Katie integrate her love of gardening and wellness and lay the foundation for her business.
Her favorite part about starting her own health and garden coaching business has been inspiring others to grow their own food and connect to what they put in their bodies through garden-to-table experiences.
Sheridan Boyle of Dweller's Place joined Gardenary because she wanted to start her own gardening business but knew she'd need a support system throughout every step of the process. After becoming a member of GCC, she felt a drive and sense of purpose beyond anything she'd ever experienced before. "Being an entrepreneur was not my dream, starting my own business was not my dream," she says. "It just all of a sudden became my dream."
She's putting herself out there because she now has full faith in herself and knows that if you don't present the opportunity to a potential client, they won't say yes. Becoming a garden coach through Gardenary "really has changed my concept of myself and what I'm capable of," she says, "not just in my business, but in my entire life."
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Besides their love of sharing gardening joy with others, these five coaches have another thing in common: They enrolled in GCC to help them build their successful businesses and learn the frameworks they use now to help clients grow their own food and their selves.
Seeing their success and the differences they're making has spurred my own mission to train more and more coaches so that every community has someone to help them grow their own food and do their small part to help the planet.
If you're interested in following in the footsteps of these inspirational garden coaches, join our certification program. GCC trains, equips, and certifies you to set up your own garden coach/garden consulting business right where you live. After all, there are people in your very own community who are waiting for the kinds of gardening lessons or gardening classes you could offer based on your unique growing location and climate.
However you decide to grow your self or your business, don't grow alone. Gardenary has all the resources you need to bring your dream garden coach business to life!