This hebdomad I give out to impose my good gardening acquaintance , Amy Hetager on Wednesday afternoon . Her dad , John had email me that she went into place hospice attention on Monday and I knew I wanted to visit her . Little did I lie with it would be the last meter I would see her . She slept while I was there and I love she was on her journeying and she seemed peaceful . It seemed so sudden when I heard from her pappa that she had passed away the next sidereal day on Thursday lamentation and yet it was not really sudden .
Amy Hetager , leader of Home Grown New Mexico and whom I had bugger off to know through working with her in both Home Grown and Master Gardeners organizations had been battling brain cancer for 5 years and had scramble it back many time . Not many people knew she was sick as she was a very private person and I could esteem that . I saw at many of our events she would not be feel well - perchance she had chemo that 24-hour interval or the day before and yet she always showed up at the events . She was so strong internally . It seemed like in the 4 years that I knew her she had to go every week to put those chemical substance into her eubstance . They would save her for a while but they also wreck her . One of those ways was that she had many joint refilling during that 5 year as the steroids the doctor gave her to forestall the side result of the many different chemos she had also destroyed her joints . Many hoi polloi acknowledge that she had some joint replacements because it ’s surd to blot out a mold . This was no hidden .
I use to tease her and called her the bionic woman and actually she was now that I think of it in several ways , the most obvious way being those new alloy joints but there was another way she was bionic in that she could do so much . pass her baby , Home Grown New Mexico and being involved in so many other gardening associations and organizations in our residential area took a bionic try as well and it was something she really enjoyed and I ’m certain it maintain her going too .
Amy was a kind , gentle person with a cacoethes for veg horticulture and especially growing tomatoes which we both shared . She loved to grow vegetables , glean them and process or cook them and she was an first-class cook as well . She wanted to be more sustainable which is also why she started Home Grown .
It seems like the dainty hoi polloi always go first to the other side . When Amy got patently physically sick late last year , I take on her responsibilities in running Home Grown to help her out and am bear on it forward now . Many of us will pretermit her and hopefully those of us in Home Grown can carry her vision forward as she would have desire it . I know I ’m certain going to try .
