After teaching in Texas for 28 years I retired and became a Master Gardener in Fort Bend County. Joining the program had been top on my bucket list for many years. I have always loved to garden but it wasn’t until I began to study about how to garden that I became a bit successful at it. I love to grow vegetables to eat and flowers to admire but my favorite thing to cultivate is trees. We moved to TN in 2020 and I moved my membership to SCAMGA. Working with Master Gardeners to help educate the community on sustainable gardening practices is my passion.
Carl Parsons, a former manufacturing manager for TRW Automotive, has had a secondary career as a college instructor of rhetoric and literature. He has a BA and MA in English from West Virginia University; doctoral course work completed at the University of Pittsburgh, plus a MS in Manufacturing Management from Kettering University. Now retired, he serves as a Master Gardener for the University of Tennessee Extension office and contributes essays on botanical subjects to Hey, Smokies!, an on-line travel magazine and fiction to a variety of publishers. He has also served as associate editor for Heater, a crime fiction magazine. Born in Parkersburg, WV, he now resides in Kodak, TN.
