Cultivate San Antonio Summer 2021

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LOCAL BUSINESS FEATURE

SANO Nursery

by Georgiana Wells Hawks circle and call out to each other as

appropriate plants helps to actualize

they hunt for lunch. The oaks, pecans, and

gardening successes and benefits.

palms provide a shady canopy and playground for baby squirrels to chase

At SANO, we specialize in growing

each other as well as a habitat for

vegetable and herb plants, and we have

raccoons, possums, bats, birds, frogs,

participated in area farmers markets for

lizards, and feral cats. It is a peaceful,

about four years. When the Covid-19

almost rural eight acres hidden inside Loop

pandemic shut down local markets,

410 on San Antonio's Inner West Side that

contactless delivery became our new way

is home to San Antonio Natives & Organics

to connect with customers. Uncertainty in

(SANO) Nursery. I am fortunate to call this

food supply, a desire to start a new hobby,

place my home for the past seven years

and a need to eat healthier foods meant

and am inspired by it on a daily basis.

many people were gardening for the first time or restarting previously neglected

When I moved to San Antonio from Florida

gardens during the pandemic. Having a

twenty-two years ago, I faced the

local source for organically grown non-

frustration of having plants die despite my

GMO plants and advice on how and what

best efforts, and I wanted to save others

to grow was important. Through Facebook

from that painful feeling. I learned that

and Instagram, people could message us

many plants from big box stores do not do

an order, pay through Paypal, and have

well in San Antonio, so I now strive to

their garden kits delivered to their door.

provide resilient, seasonally appropriate plants that can grow in San Antonio's

Gardening gives us so much more than

alkaline soil, heat, and frequent droughts.

tomatoes, squash, or bell peppers. It helps

Nurturing plants should be a relief from

our physical, mental, and emotional

stress, not a source of it. Providing

wellbeing. It also helps us connect with

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