By Laura Kroeger

NKyTribune staff writer

As a girl, Northern Kentucky native Sue Sturgeon admired her father’s beautiful garden of roses and luscious tomatoes. But it wasn’t enough to put her on the path to horticulture–yet. She graduated from Thomas More University, lived in Park Hills with a small garden and enjoyed a satisfying career in market research for P&G. It was during her final years with the company that she served in Japan.

“I didn’t have space for a garden in Japan and realized it was something I greatly missed. I think that’s what led me to my interest in gardening today,” she muses.

“When you get to retirement, you choose what you want to be,” she explains. “When I ‘graduated’ from my career at P&G I was drawn to the Master Gardener Program offered by UK Extension.”

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