Class Year: 2009
Current Address
Minnesota
Email: ssstrandemo@aol.com
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About Sarah Strandemo
MOVED BACK to Minessota in 2014. Originally from Minnesota, I moved to the St. Louis area in 1976 when I accepted a position with Ralston Purina as a food scientist in R&D. My husband Richard and I thought we would live here about three years and relocate, but 32 years later, we are still here.
I was fortunate enough to be able to take early retirement last year so I could pursue other interests.
My interest for gardening began when we purchased our first home in a new subdivision that didn’t even have grass. Being from Minnesota, I asked where is the black dirt? I learned to work with red clay.
A few years later, we bought a home on 10 wooded acres in Cedar Hill. Jefferson County’s topsoil is actually limestone. I learned to use a pck ax to plant bulbs but also learned a lot about native plants and wildflowers. Now we’re living in Wildwood with great dirt, a landscaped front, more woods in the back and a new challenge – coexistence with our resident deer.
Deer resistant plants, expecially native, are now my focus. I still involuntarily feed the deer an new plant each season, but I’m getting smarter.
