Carolyn Gibson

Carolyn Gibson was born in 1951 in Dallas Texas. She and her husband Gerald own and operate Dogwood Gardens Organic Farm where their only crop is organic Wheatgrass and tend to their bees. Gerald and Carolyn Gibson started Dogwood Gardens Organic Farm in 1991. They started out growing medical herbs, became the largest grower of certified organic Basil and eventually focused on Wheatgrass. Gerald's passion is organic farming and honey bees. Carolyn's passion remains herbs. She first discovered herbs in the 1970's after going to a free seminar at SMU in Dallas on herbs and organic gardening. Her first herbal tea was a mixture of sage, rosemary and thyme. She has the first issue of Mother Earth News. She had visions of making all the herbal medicine her family would need.

Back then there was no internet, Whole Foods, or books and books on herbs. Her education was limited until she met Odena Brannam, considered the grandmother of herbs in Texas that she went beyond herbal teas and learned to make oils, salves and tinctures. She has learned since then that you cannot grow and make all the herbal medicine you will ever need. Herbal Medicine is a lifetime pursuit and learning never ends.

She now offers classes to all in Folk Remedies from herbs, Texas weeds and beeswax, propolis and honey. It is a hands on class making herbal remedies. See her website, http://www.FamilyGuidetoHerbs.com for her class schedule. Now, their only crop is wheatgrass. They were first growing wheatgrass for health food stores, juice bars and smoothie bars. They discovered some of their customers weren't interested in their health but was using wheatgrass as centerpieces. Photographers were using the wheatgrass as props when they needed green grass in the wintertime. One of their customers was a restaurant that was buying the trays of wheatgrass and cutting them into circles for table centerpieces. They told their clients that they could grow them round to begin with and save them all that work. That began a new industry selling to the floral and event designers. Event designers have upholstered baby carriages with wheatgrass, used wheatgrass as runners on the stage and tables, and used wheatgrass as the yard for a life size gingerbread house. Their wheatgrass has been at the Byron Nelson Classic and The Texan Gaylord in Grapevine. They have grown over 200,000 trays of wheatgrass. They know how to grow wheatgrass.