In East Tawakoni, Texas, there lives a Filipina with a backyard garden full of flowers, fruits, and Filipino vegetables. 34-year-old Mia Pettyjohn-Anderson, along with her American husband Chaz Anderson, is completely in love with gardening.
Mia is a Filipina who grew up in Calamba, Laguna. In 2006, she migrated to San Francisco and relocated to Texas in 2015, shortly after marrying her husband in 2013.
However, in 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic hit the world, Mia and her husband discovered a community garden near their previous home in Texas. They decided to join it and acquired a small plot of land in the community garden. That was the beginning of the couple’s gardening journey. A former floral designer, Mia believes that flowers have their place in their garden. She grows different types of flowers for personal flower arrangements.Besides flowers, there are raised beds dedicated to herbs, such as rosemary, sage, thyme, and more. They have a grapevine and fruit-bearing trees like apples, peaches, figs, and plums. She grows different types of pumpkins and squash, while her husband grows varieties of peppers and tomatoes.
Her husband, Chaz, keeps a spreadsheet which tracks the amount of produce their garden produces per year. For 2022, they found that they found that they grew over 360 pounds of produce, essentially saving them almost a thousand dollars in groceries.“In Texas we have two growing seasons,” Mia said. Every year, she buys different seeds from suppliers and plants them according to the season they are suited for. “I’ll start seeds from January to May, and again in the fall for winter stuff.
“The daily maintenance is kind of difficult. We go outside after work everyday and we water plants, do maintenance, trim stuff, clean up,” she said. “It’s really time consuming, but we love being outside.” “The best tip I’ve gotten is you have to make sure you plant everything at the right time,” said Mia. “Every [crop] has a specific thing that they like during the year.”Because their garden constantly had abundant harvests, Mia and her husband are planning to establish a business. “We want to make money from doing something we love,” Mia said.
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