Homegrown’s Jamila Norman Details Farming Life And Garden Advice
Jamila Norman, internationally recognized urban farmer and star of the hit show “Homegrown”
House Digest
Magnolia Network
April 7, 2023
Excerpt:
In an exclusive interview with House Digest, the food activist and mother behind Atlanta’s Patchwork City Farms explains how it takes more than wishful thinking and some seeds to pull off a successful harvest. Thankfully, the Magnolia Network veteran is more than happy to offer expert advice for homeowners who seek to transform their outdoor spaces into beautiful and functional backyard farms. She also dishes on the state of her own urban farm after unprecedented winter weather in Atlanta threatened to snuff out its entire harvest.
Viewers can expect variety in the families and the situations that we are flipping. We’re helping a family who’s retired, and they opened up a brewery, so we help them grow hops. We’ve got more farm animals; we’ve got some miniature cows; we’ve got some goats. We have a lot of different scenarios of people that are interested in growing and people [in different places] in their journey in life. It’s a lot of inspiration for a wide variety of audiences, and it definitely stretched us in terms of being creative and offering solutions to each of the unique situations.
