Kate
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
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| Location | Natick, Massachusetts, United States |
| Introduction | Kate Bandzmer grew up getting lost in the coastal rainforests and suburban bramble bushes of western Canada. Seeking every opportunity to be surrounded by plant life, she studied horticulture in Victoria, British Columbia and operated her own garden design and maintenance business before moving to the USA with her husband and two cats. Kate now lives in Natick, Massachusetts, where winters are white, summers are bountiful, and gardeners are tenacious. When Kate is not volunteering and teaching for several local non-profits, she's exploring New England's parks and trails, or digging and dreaming in her own 10'x 15' (USDA zone 6a) yard and community plots. More often than not, she’ll grab pens, pencils, or the nearest computer to record and share the news, nature and horticultural arts that amaze her most. |
| Interests | Bicycling on back roads, cooking, horticulture, reading books, design, reading magazines, music, urban issues, history, sci-fi, geography,ecology,drawing, reading street signs, reading everything |
| Favorite movies | indy films, sci-fi, cozy flicks about the British countryside |
| Favorite music | folk, rock, classical, hip-hop, new wave, reggae, 40's music, classic rock, electronic, world music, some alternative, some pop. . . |
| Favorite books | Suddenly They Heard Footsteps by Dan Yashinsky, Omnivore's Dilemma by Micheal Pollan, Sketchbook for the Artist by Sarah Simblet, The Book of Other People by Zadie Smith, The Taqwacores by Michael Muhammad Knight, Heart of Darkness, Dracula, The Sense of Wonder by Rachael Carson, Keeping a Nature Journal by Claire Walker Leslie, and so many more! |