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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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