- Catherine's top gardening tip, especially for beginners, is to care for your soil if you want your plants to flourish.
- She and her husband co-own their family farm, where they grow vegetables for their own consumption and a few medicinal herbs like rosemary and garlic that come in handy when managing common ailments like colds and flus.
- Catherine is also obsessed with creating budget-friendly DIY home improvement hacks. She makes some of the coolest storage solutions around the house using an assortment of containers that come with store-bought items.
Experience
Catherine is a freelance writer specializing in gardening, food, home DIY, and design. For more than six years, she's written consumer product guides, tutorial pieces, and listicles for several outlets, including TheCoolist, Exotic Gourmand, Tasting Table, and Chowhound. When she's not writing, Catherine loves spending time with her husband and their two adorable kids, either working at their farm, playing, or preparing a delicious home-cooked meal together.
Education
Catherine has an MBChB (a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree) from Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya.