Toni Gattone fell in love with gardening in her grandfather’s backyard in Chicago, but it wasn’t until she moved to Northern California that her passion began to bloom.
She was a Sales Executive in corporate America for seventeen years but when the gardening bug kept biting, she started a sales company selling gifts and garden products to the retail market. Twenty-eight years later, Toni closed the doors to her business so she could focus on her “encore” career as an author and speaker.
When Toni became a Master Gardener in Marin County she started speaking on her love of gardening but her chronic bad back kept her from gardening with gusto, so she developed a seminar and wrote her book on adaptive gardening and never looked back.
Her book, The Lifelong Gardener, Garden with Ease and Joy at Any Age, reflects Toni’s true purpose and passion: helping gardeners do what they love to do…Garden for life, in comfort, ease, and joy!
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Thank you for this beautiful interview and podcast. I enjoyed listening to both of you and how you weaved gardening and thriving on all leavels together, spiritually, physically and mentally. It is all connected. Nice to connect with the Morning Glory Project too!
Thanks so much for listening, Nancy. Toni is a special person and I’m so happy to share her story.