BEST HOME GARDEN FINALIST - Paula Kerr

Your Name: Paula Kerr

Your Organisation/Company: The Kitchen Gardener

Your favourite thing about West Belfast: The people

Your First Job: Receptionist

What it taught you: It taught me lots of skills like using a Telex machine which was hi-tech in the 80’s

What do you think are the key ingredients needed to make a person or organisation the Best of the West? To have passion about what you do, to share that passion with the people in your area

I began gardening for myself but gradually I discovered that my family and neighbours enjoyed what I was creating. I started by growing flowers & vegetables and then added fruit trees and a herb garden and then I began composting & I now also keep chickens. I then started showing friends & neighbours how to grow for themselves and now I have a vlog doing free lessons on how to grow your own